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Camerawork is the art, and process of cinematography, filmmaking, and photography. Camera work is important because it implies how the camera work, moves, and is positioned for a specific effect. Now cinematography is the art and craft of making moving pictures by capturing a storyline visually with a camera and light. cinematographers are the directors of photography. Bradford Young is a cinematographer best known for 'When They See Us' and  'A Star Wars Story and Arrival'. Camera shots sizes and camera angles are both key concepts of camerawork. A camera shot size is how much of the subject or setting is shown in the frame whether it's a video, picture, or animation. While a camera angle is a specific location where the camera is positioned in the film to take a shot. I was introduced to this concept with the help of reference videos. The most interesting thing was learning the difference between every angle and shot size and the connection between all of them. Le...

       The objective of this lesson was for students to create a color wheel Semiotic Analysis Organizer based on Roland Barthes' Theory of Denotative and Connotative signs. Color in the film is the effect of the majority of everything we see in the frame. Color affects us emotionally and psychologically half of the time we don't even notice. Pink often symbolizes compassion, nurturing, and love. Storys usually have a protagonist, the main character, and sometimes a hero. In films, there is a colorist who is responsible for color in film.       Students should use the vocabulary from the lesson to create slides using PowerPoint to analyze the meaning of colors in the film. In pairs, students researched and picked out 9 different frames from selected movie themes/ genres, and mise en scene-focused codes to analyze. Students JF and TM both had the same responsibility and did an equal amount of work. We used Digital media such as websites to help com...

     The objective of this lesson was for students to create a color wheel Semiotic Analysis Organizer based on Roland Barthes' Theory of Denotative and Connotative signs. Color in the film is the effect of the majority of everything we see in the frame. Color affects us emotionally and psychologically half of the time we don't even notice. Black usually symbolizes death, darkness, and mystery. White symbolizes peace, purity, and space Storys usually have a protagonist, the main character, and sometimes a hero. In films, there is a colorist who is responsible for color in film.           Students should use the vocabulary from the lesson to create slides using PowerPoint to analyze the meaning of colors in the film. In pairs, students researched and picked out 9 different frames from selected movie themes/ genres, and mise en scene-focused codes to analyze. Students JF and TM both had the same responsibility and did an equal amount of work. W...

      The objective of this lesson was for students to create a color wheel Semiotic Analysis Organizer based on Roland Barthes' Theory of Denotative and Connotative signs. Color in the film is the effect of the majority of everything we see in the frame. Color affects us emotionally and psychologically half of the time we don't even notice. Red often symbolizes love, anger, and hope. Yellow symbolizes joy, hazard, and summer/ sunshine. While blue symbolizes cool temperature, patience, and wisdom. Storys usually have a protagonist, the main character, and sometimes a hero. In films, there is a colorist who is responsible for color in film.     Students should use the vocabulary from the lesson to create slides using PowerPoint to analyze the meaning of colors in the film. In pairs, students researched and picked out 9 different frames from selected movie themes/ genres, and mise en scene-focused codes to analyze. Students JF and TM both had the same responsibili...

 The key objective of this exercise was to produce and present accurate information and insightful ideas and back them up with relevant evidence. To show a strong sense of purpose by being intent and engaging. Also to be able to do an investigation of a subject of analysis in order to reveal a new understanding of the research problem. Students completed this exercise by watching a film clip and analyzing the elements of the setting in the film excerpt. In this exercise, students had to understand that encoding is the way items are put together to have meaning. Decode is the way these items are broken down for their true meaning. Denotative is the original meaning of a sign. Representation is the way things are seen in the world around us. Lastly, students also had to understand the messages that were presented throughout the film clip.  October 10-14, 2022

october 3rd-7th, 2022           The key objective for this exercise was to learn about mise en scene codes, genre, and iconography conventions, and how they join to produce meaning for audiences. In pairs, students created a bubble diagram to  illustrate mise en scene codes for one of these genres: Crime, High School Drama, Comedy, Sci Fiction, Action, and Horror. After students completed this exercise, they will then know how to identify their common knowledge of their movie and television viewing experience.  In this exercise, students had to understand that setting is items in a frame that pertain to a certain place, space, time period, and time of day. Set design is the placement of props and the setting of a scene. Students also had to understand how the hair, makeup, color composition, props, and lighting and how their meaning to the movie/scene.