AICE Media Studies

1. Common CAMS (Camera Work) in Drama: Close-ups: Highlight the protagonist’s emotional turmoil and intense expressions. Medium shots: Show interactions and body language, especially in confined spaces like the phone box. Low-angle shots: Add intensity and create a sense of vulnerability. Static framing: Keeps focus on the character and their emotions. 2. Common Sound in Drama: Diegetic sounds: The ringing phone, ambient noises like traffic, and breathing intensify realism. Emotive score: Minimalist music builds tension and enhances emotional depth. Moments of silence: Amplify dramatic tension, emphasizing key emotional beats. Dialogue: Essential for conveying conflict, internal struggles, and plot revelations. 3. Common Mise-En-Scene (CLAMPS) in Drama: Costume: Realistic, everyday attire that reflects the character’s social or emotional state. Lighting: Subtle and naturalistic; uses shadows to symbolize the character’s struggles. Actors: Strong performances focusing on facial expressi...

a. Common Sound in drama • Diegetic: The sound of the office staff of the school during daily activities, including discourse and children laughing. The gun shot and the screams of both the teachers and children as they realize what is going on.  • Dialogue: conversation between the office staff and the shooter making demands to the staff she must pass to the police, including The shooter advising police to evacuate people in the area. The shower speaking to himself, regretting his actions realizing he should be on medication in the hospital. The Discussion of the grown man, threatening the staff that they will die. The young man admitting he is suicidal and wanting to give up, but the office staff speaks him out of such thoughts and encourages him to be caught by the police. The intruder, wanting to apologize to the students, regretting to have scared the children. • Ambient sound: Police sirens head in the back, waiting for the shooter outside. b.    ...

a. Sound:  • Non- Diegetic of the opening music to set the calm setting. Then set to mysterious as racers go through the track. The music playing over the relay driver as he realizes that his friend has died.  • Diegetic: The sound of cars like motors, honking and tools being used to ready the cars. The sound of the crash and attempt of breaking. The fire and the people crying after seeing their loved ones kills due to the crash. • Voice Over of the speech the racing manager for Mercedes was giving while the clip pans over the race track. • Dialogue: as the Mercedes manager speaks to the drivers and makes the plan for the positions. Competitors speak to each other, encouraging one another. b.      Common Mis-En-Scene (CLAMPS) in your genre • Costume: Racers are in their uniform while spectators are in business casual attire. • Lighting: Dark as the main group is given their positions.  • Acting: Everyone is either nervous o...

Create a story within your existing resources-a small cast and limited locations. Build setups and payoffs, both in plot and emotion. Do not play safe or include the expected - subvert directly audience expectations. Tone and style must remain consistent throughout, with inspiration being drawn from films of the same genre. Get actors who are willing to totally commit to the roles, and make sure that the sound quality is as high as possible, even if it means reducing dialogue. In post-production, get feedback from others, tighten your pacing, and use low-cost tools for sound design and music. Rule number one: Be aware of your budget and crew-and don't reach for things that go well beyond the realms of possibility.

Part 1: Watching the Video In this video, La Jetée and 12 Monkeys recount stories by using very different stylistic techniques. La Jetée employs still images along with a voice-over to create a stripped-down, minimalist yet affecting narrative, while 12 Monkeys develops this idea into a more dynamic, linear presentation in a conventional film format. Both explore ideas of time travel, memory, and fate, and and illustrate how unique can be the representation of an account. That said, La Jetée, while presenting a simple story using limited means, emphasizes that the key lies in imagery and theme rather than action. In 12 Monkeys, with much availability of means to enhance visual and character engagement, one develops a solid dimension of layered complexity. That gives an idea of how to build the same concepts together in each of those films and how this can inspire you to work creatively on telling your own story, whatever means may permit. Part 2: Reading the Article This article draws ...

Short Film: I was amazed by Shane Acker's short film 9 for how much it managed to accomplish in such a short space of time. The story is simple, but it felt active and fast-moving actually brought me into the dark post-apocalyptic setting of the film. What I loved about this film was how it relied almost entirely on visuals to tell its tale. There was hardly any dialogue, yet within me pulled such tension and such emotion in every scene. Animation here is shown in a style that is raw, nearly or boldly hand-drawn, and thus accentuates the atmosphere. The wasteland and the mechanical villain were hauntingly and beautifully designed. 9 struck me as resourceful and strong and one with huge guts, even if little character development is possible in the short's limited time. The conventions of the short were tight and focused: every moment served a purpose, and anything seemed unworthy of delivery. It left me pondering upon its themes and the mystery of its world long after it ended. ...