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In this clip, editing assists in the construction of representation of disability by using a range of editing methods. Near the beginning of the clip, there is a medium shot of a man sleeping, who appears to be disabled. From this scene to the next, a dissolve is used, which leads into a insert. This insert is shown in black and white and shows a variety of images that cut every 3 seconds. These clips include an explosion, representing the scientific creation of Earth, followed by shots of organisms, apes and lastly a cave man. These are all things that we would associate with the theory of evolution. Being in black and white, the clips are given an old and dull look. By showing the shot of the disabled man, and then clips of the theory of evolution, this may be portraying that he relates to being created by evolution. However, the last clip we see out of the evolution series is a caveman, which may be signifying that instead of fully becoming a human, the man has remained a 'caveman'. People may stereotype cavemen to be less smart and able as humans. Potentially referring to this disabled man in comparison to a caveman shows that people in society consider him less able than a human. The fact that these clips are also in black and white may be trying to indicate that this man is boring and bland as we would associate black and white to be quite dull colours.
Friday, 30 November 2012
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Monday, 12 November 2012
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Camera based on race/class clip
In a clip that I watched, I analysed the use of camera to show the differences of race and class.
The first thing that I noticed was the use of a long shot when three police officers step out of an elevator. We can see that two large males are placed in front of one man as they walk out of an elevator. Whilst the single man slowly walks in a almost carefree and continuous pace, the two men infront gradually get faster to capture the man. The fact that the single man doesn't help the two men capture him, shows that he is more of the leader and commander with a higher class because he has people working for him rather than doing anything himself. Again with these three men, when they first enter the building, the single man is in front with the other two men trailing behind him. This positioning that we can see via use of a over shoulder shot/long shot also gives us the impression that the single man is the leader as he has authority to enter the building first with confidence, whislt the other men are almost cowarding behing him at the desk waiting for a command.
One other camera use is how the camera pans during a certain part of the scene. During a time when the workers are penned into a staff room, the camera pans from right to left in a slow motion. This enables the audience to see the faces of the people in the room. Another way the camera does this is via the use of close ups on each of the characters in the shot. We can clearly see that there faces are worried, and this also gives us the chance to establish the classes and races in the clip. We can see during these camera shots that everybody is on the same level within the shot and is of different ethnic backgrounds and races. We can see that none of them clearly differ with class which shows that they are represented as equals because of the clothes that they are wearing and the situation they are in.
Another panning shot used is when the staff are eating at the dinner tables. As the camera pans from right to left, we can see that there is a different race/ethnic group on each table. This shows that even though they are all equal class, there is still a seperation between them and a division. It shows that even though they may be of the same class, this does not make them a group at a whole because of the divisions still between them.
The first thing that I noticed was the use of a long shot when three police officers step out of an elevator. We can see that two large males are placed in front of one man as they walk out of an elevator. Whilst the single man slowly walks in a almost carefree and continuous pace, the two men infront gradually get faster to capture the man. The fact that the single man doesn't help the two men capture him, shows that he is more of the leader and commander with a higher class because he has people working for him rather than doing anything himself. Again with these three men, when they first enter the building, the single man is in front with the other two men trailing behind him. This positioning that we can see via use of a over shoulder shot/long shot also gives us the impression that the single man is the leader as he has authority to enter the building first with confidence, whislt the other men are almost cowarding behing him at the desk waiting for a command.
One other camera use is how the camera pans during a certain part of the scene. During a time when the workers are penned into a staff room, the camera pans from right to left in a slow motion. This enables the audience to see the faces of the people in the room. Another way the camera does this is via the use of close ups on each of the characters in the shot. We can clearly see that there faces are worried, and this also gives us the chance to establish the classes and races in the clip. We can see during these camera shots that everybody is on the same level within the shot and is of different ethnic backgrounds and races. We can see that none of them clearly differ with class which shows that they are represented as equals because of the clothes that they are wearing and the situation they are in.
Another panning shot used is when the staff are eating at the dinner tables. As the camera pans from right to left, we can see that there is a different race/ethnic group on each table. This shows that even though they are all equal class, there is still a seperation between them and a division. It shows that even though they may be of the same class, this does not make them a group at a whole because of the divisions still between them.
Monday, 22 October 2012
Monday, 10 September 2012
Vocabulary
Binary opposites/opposition: This is a theory used in media which takes a pair of related terms or concepts that are opposite in meaning and shows how we as humans naturally compare the differences i.e Young and old, rich and poor.
Juxtaposition: an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especiall for comparison or contrast.
Semionics: Semiotics, also called semiotic studies or (in the Saussurean tradition) semiology, is the study of signs and sign processes (semiosis), indication, designation, likeness, analogy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication. Semiotics is closely related to the field of linguistics, which, for its part, studies the structure and meaning of language more specifically.
Encode: When something is placed into an item that is either made to not be seen at first glance or to be made noticeable for a certain key point to be made or accomplished once noticed. Incoding can be a way of inserting a message in a hidden way.
Decoding: This is in relation to encoding. This is when something is looked at in high depth to understand its true meaning and to identify what each encoding piece is used for and why it may have been included in the way that is has.
Representation:
Representation refers to the construction in any medium (especially the mass media) of aspects of ‘reality’ such as people, places, objects, events, cultural identities and other abstract concepts. Such representations may be in speech or writing as well as still or moving pictures. The term refers to the processes involved as well as to its products. For instance, in relation to the key markers of identity - Class, Age, Gender and Ethnicity (the 'cage' of identity) - representation involves not only how identities are represented (or rather constructed) within the text but also how they are constructed in the processes of production and reception by people whose identities are also differentially marked in relation to such demographic factors.
Signifier: any material thing that signifies, e.g., words on a page, a facial expression, an image.
Signified: the concept that a signifier refers to.
Indexicl signifier: signs where the signifier is caused by the signified, e.g., smoke signifies fire.
Iconic signs: signs where the signifier resembles the signified, e.g., a picture.
Metonymy: a kind of connotation where in one sign is substituted for another with which it is closely associated, as in the use of Washington for the United States government or of the sword for military power.
Polysemic: is the capacity for a sign (e.g., a word, phrase, etc.) or signs to have multiple meanings (sememes), i.e., a large semantic field. It is usually regarded as distinct from homonymy.
Modes of adress: Mode of Address is a very important media term. It simply means how the text speaks to the audience, and involves them. It also involves how a text INFLUENCES an audience to respond to a text in a certain way, and that depends on: them.
Hegmony: Hegemony more often refers to the power of a single group in a society to essentially lead and dominate other groups in the society. This might be done by controlling forms of communication, by influencing voters or by influencing government leaders. Some lobbying groups, for example, might have hegemony status over leaders in congress. Rules that would prohibit or limit political spending by special interest groups are designed to reduce their dominance and allow individual voters to have more control.
Versisimilitude:
Juxtaposition: an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especiall for comparison or contrast.
Semionics: Semiotics, also called semiotic studies or (in the Saussurean tradition) semiology, is the study of signs and sign processes (semiosis), indication, designation, likeness, analogy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication. Semiotics is closely related to the field of linguistics, which, for its part, studies the structure and meaning of language more specifically.
Encode: When something is placed into an item that is either made to not be seen at first glance or to be made noticeable for a certain key point to be made or accomplished once noticed. Incoding can be a way of inserting a message in a hidden way.
Decoding: This is in relation to encoding. This is when something is looked at in high depth to understand its true meaning and to identify what each encoding piece is used for and why it may have been included in the way that is has.
Representation:
Representation refers to the construction in any medium (especially the mass media) of aspects of ‘reality’ such as people, places, objects, events, cultural identities and other abstract concepts. Such representations may be in speech or writing as well as still or moving pictures. The term refers to the processes involved as well as to its products. For instance, in relation to the key markers of identity - Class, Age, Gender and Ethnicity (the 'cage' of identity) - representation involves not only how identities are represented (or rather constructed) within the text but also how they are constructed in the processes of production and reception by people whose identities are also differentially marked in relation to such demographic factors.
Signifier: any material thing that signifies, e.g., words on a page, a facial expression, an image.
Signified: the concept that a signifier refers to.
Indexicl signifier: signs where the signifier is caused by the signified, e.g., smoke signifies fire.
Iconic signs: signs where the signifier resembles the signified, e.g., a picture.
Metonymy: a kind of connotation where in one sign is substituted for another with which it is closely associated, as in the use of Washington for the United States government or of the sword for military power.
Polysemic: is the capacity for a sign (e.g., a word, phrase, etc.) or signs to have multiple meanings (sememes), i.e., a large semantic field. It is usually regarded as distinct from homonymy.
Modes of adress: Mode of Address is a very important media term. It simply means how the text speaks to the audience, and involves them. It also involves how a text INFLUENCES an audience to respond to a text in a certain way, and that depends on: them.
Hegmony: Hegemony more often refers to the power of a single group in a society to essentially lead and dominate other groups in the society. This might be done by controlling forms of communication, by influencing voters or by influencing government leaders. Some lobbying groups, for example, might have hegemony status over leaders in congress. Rules that would prohibit or limit political spending by special interest groups are designed to reduce their dominance and allow individual voters to have more control.
Versisimilitude:
‘appearance of reality’ is called
verisimilitude
This is a convention as there is nothing genuinely ‘realistic’ about media images. There are
two important types of verisimilitude:
generic verisimilitude convinces us because of the genre we are
watching (in horror it seems realistic for a vampire to sink its teeth into a person’s neck);
cultural
verisimilitude seems realistic because it mimics real life.
Class notes
Semiotics: Southern Comfort Ad
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Below is my picture with an encoded meaning and purpose to it. It is not easily apparent to notice, but when decoded it could mean possibly more than just one thing but many.
Click this link to be taken to my work:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/106380591
Below is my picture with an encoded meaning and purpose to it. It is not easily apparent to notice, but when decoded it could mean possibly more than just one thing but many.
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