Monday 11 May 2009

Textual Analysis

Textual analysis of breaking down a text into its various elements and studying them to analyse how a meaning is created. When analysing moving image media (such as film or television) we must examine the following areas:
Camera work (shots, angles, movements)
Editing (how shots have been put together)
Sound (both digetic and non-digetic)
Special effects (if there are any)
Mise-en-scene (costume, make-up, facial expression, props setting, performance)

Camera movements
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Crab- the camera moves sideways.
Side- The camera stays in the same place but pivots left or right.
Steadicam- strapped to a person.
Hand-held camera- Hand-held.

Side

Low Camera- looking up at subject, making it look bigger
Canted- Camera is tilted to make subject look tilted
High- Camera is looking down on subject, making it look smaller
Worms eye- Extreme low angle, camera looking up, very low
Eye level- Camera pointed exactly at suject
Birds eye/Arieal- Extereme high angle, Camera or high angle very high, looking down.

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