CLASS/STATUS

Class and Status are basically the wealth of someone. Each one is split into two binary opposites. Class is Middle/working class and status is rich/poor. RICH

1) Kirk Norcross – in the programme TOWIE kirk is represented as having a lot of money, his dad owns a nightclub and they have a huge house.

2) J.R.Ewing – he owns an oil field

3) Mr Burns – the character in the Simpson’s is very rich because he owns a nuclear plant and has a personal assistant.

4) Ricci – this character is in the TV series Geordie shore. When he goes home in series three we are shown his car and house. He owns a range rover sport and a very big modern house, this shows his wealth clearly.

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POOR

1) Effy – of skins effy and tony are two characters which could be seen to be poor, this is because the house is in a council estate.

2) Lester Burnham from American Beauty would be an example of working class. He is employed and has an average size house

3) Kevin Webster from Coronation Street would be working class as he works in a garage on an average wage.

4) Billy from Eastenders would also be working class as he is employed on a wage working for other people in all different types of work.

5) Jason Grimshaw from Coronation Street works as a builder which would make him working class.

Tommy Medland and Sam Baxter

EDITING

Continuity –The viewer should not notice the cuts, and shots should flow together naturally. Hence, the sequence of shots should appear to be continuous.

In this clip we see a fight scene from the film 'Fast Five'. The auidence shouldnt beable to see the cuts in this clip and it should look to us that it's all one clip rather than being split up into seperate shots.

Hollywood Montage - a "montage sequence" is a short segment in a film in which narrative information is presented in a condensed fashion.
This is a montage clip from the film 'Stepbrothers'. This shows what is happening over a long period of time in just a few minutes.

Cross Cutting/parallel editing - Editing that alternates shots of two or more lines of action occurring in different places, usually simultaneously.
I found it hard to find a clip from a film so just used this clip but this is an example of Cross Cutting/Parallel editing.

Dissolve - A transition between two shots during which the first image gradually disappears while the second image gradually appears.
This clip shows all different types of dissolve transition in films

THE SEVEN AREAS OF REPRESENTATION (COMMON STEREOTYPES)

REPRESENTATIONS – COMMON STEREOTYPES

SOUND - RATCATCHER CLIP 10

In this task we watched clip 10 from the film 'Ratcatcher'. At the start of this clip we are shown a young child wrapping himself around a curtain numerous times. This is an abstract image. The sounds we hear in the background are what seem to be other children in a big group playing around laughing and joking. Because the child is wrapping himself up we believe that he is trying to hide from something or someone and is upset. The atmosphere at the start of this clip is quite strange because you would think the child would be outside playing with all the other kids. We soon realise this child is in fact a young boy called Ryan when his mum slapped him to stop messing with the curtains. When Ryan gets out of the curtain the non-diegetic sound stops and we are then introduced to the real world sounds. This could show us that Ryan has been woken up from his dream.

Ryan and his mum are sitting down in a room and his mum makes him tuck his trousers into his wellington boots. They walk down the street and Ryan sneakily turns around and runs away from his mum. This shows us that Ryan is a bit of a naughty boy and doesn’t respect his mum that much. We are then shown Ryan taking his trouser back out his wellingtons disobeying his mum. When this happens we are introduced to some slow music which could show us that something bad is going to happen.

He runs outside to his friend James who is playing by the river. They start playing and messing around in the water. At this time we also have his mum who is shoes shopping who we assume the shoes are for Ryan. We have two scenes where they have the same sounds this is called parallel sound. The boys start to get out of hand and there is no adult there to stop this. James pushes Ryan a little too hard into the water and Ryan goes under. We then see James running off and a shot of bubble floating to the surface where Ryan was. We instantly assume that he is going to drown as the music change and it becomes tense and serious.

SOUND - SUNSHINE CLIP 12

In this task we watched clip 12 from the film ‘Sunshine’. At the start of the clip we see strange pieces of what it is like in space, with a man falling through space. Also in this clip we see a man running out of a pit room in the spaceship all out of breath and looking angry, this man looks fairly untidy with long hair and stubbly beard. We see a bloody handprint on the wall which could show us that something bad has happened and why the man is acting like this.

 The sounds we hear at the start of the clip are quite strange for example we have short snippets of whale sounds which don’t really link in with what we see. This could show that no one knows what is actually going on up there in space.

Throughout the clip we have very loud, overwhelming, powerful, fast music playing which can add to the atmosphere and keeps the audience interested and connected. This type of music also ups the tempo of the clip to go with what we see.

EXAMPLES OF SOUND

This is a clip from the popular TV series and movie 'The Inbetweeners'. This clip shows Diegetic sound as the audience and characters can hear the sound. In this clip from the film 'Mission Impossible' we have the character Ethan Hunt climbing up a rock face. The sound in the background is non-diegetic as the audience can here it but the character can't. This is a clip from a very popular film called 'Taken' which they have recently just released the 2nd film. In this clip we have synchronous sound because the actor talking lips are in time with the speaking we hear. Asynchronous sound is just the opposite where the person talking lips are out of time with the words we hear.

GLOSSARY OF SOUND TERMS

Glossary Of Sound Terms For Tv Drama from raybloggs