Preliminary Exercise 5: Analyzing Genre

Genre in film is the categorization of films based on their elements. Four examples of genres are horror, action, comedy, and romance. Subgenres is a smaller category that fits inside a main genre. Most of the time this is a mixture of two separate genres. One example is romance-fantasy. I enjoy all of them film genre but the film genre I would say that I mostly is romance, thriller, and drama. I just enjoy all the emotion each genre gives.

The purpose of the assignment is to understand the types of film genres based on their key components, conventions, technical codes and how they play a role in creating film. The choices of genre and subgenre is fiction and thriller. Iconography is visual motifs, symbols, and other elements of a film. Like props, objects, characters, setting, tone and atmosphere, etc. Four examples are ghost, vampires, kissing. and gunslingers. Narrative themes are the telling's of stories through character and different events. Four that associate with my genre/subgenre are survival, love good vs. evil and discovering oneself.

Reflection

The media text that was created was bubble diagram. The purpose of this was for us to create a poster on the subgenre we selected and then documents elements of mise en scene. Me and my partner about the genre and the elements that go into it. We used a laptop to conduct research, which we are intermediate at. In this exercise I learned that each genre has an element that makes its own and how it does that.

Cited-Work

Lannom, S. (2023, September 27). Ultimate Guide to Movie Genres — 90+ genre Examples for Film & TV. StudioBinder. https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/movie-genres-list

Jenkins, P. (2023, July 30). Film narrative Structure: expert insights and analysis - brilliantio. Brilliantio. https://brilliantio.com/film-narrative-structure/

Preliminary Exercise 4: Analyzing Mise en scene

 

The movie name is "Into the woods". Genre is fantasy, horror, comedy, drama, adventure, and musical. The movie as a lot of themes due to the fact that it has storyline put together. Some of them are the pain of loss, human confusion, greed, and pigheadedness, capitalism and so much more. The opening of the movie introduce elements of mise en scene by showing us the costumes the charterer had on. Props used like used by each charterer. The main massage is an exploration of parent-children relationships and the need for letting go and growing up. The feeling/mood the director is communicating to the audience anxiety, rage, anticipation, possessiveness, nostalgia, suspicion, denial, and dread.

 

Section B 

General Information of Film
Film Title (1 mark):  Into the woods	Media Institution Name (1 mark): File Production
Film Studio (s) (1 mark): Walt Disney Studios	Director (1 mark): Rose Marshall
Year released (1 mark) :  2014	Genre and sub-genres (2 marks):  Fantasy, Adventure, Musical, Comedy
Cost of production (Budget) (1mark): $50 million	Box Office (1 mark): 213.1 million USD
A brief synopsis of the film. Three lines max. in your own words. (3 marks):    Baker and his wife, who wish to have a child; Cinderella, who wishes to attend the King's Festival; and Jack, who wishes his cow would give milk. The Baker and his wife wish for a child but suffer under a curse laid upon their family by a Witch. It is like about 4 folk-tale put together in one movie.

Section C 

Setting
Definition: Where the film takes place
	Setting is a forest of ancient pine trees in Windsor Great Park
	Message: A small town and city which are untamed, uncontrollable, wild, and mysterious
	Atmosphere/mood of the opening sequence: Anxiety, possessiveness, dread
Location (Where and geographic description): In the Windsor gray park filled with trees, lots of shadows
Time Period: Traditional & Contemporary time period 1930s
Time of Day: Day Time
Culture/moral values of the setting: To show struggles and the wanting of more
Job title:Set Designer
Acting
Definition: The art or occupation of performing in plays, movies, or television productions.
	The acting is……… the family's in the town cleaning and very poor
	Messages: Family’s saying what they wish for
	Atmosphere/mood of the opening sequence: Sad
Character portrayed: Sad, Depressed
Character appearance: (Tall, short, skinny, muscular, male, female, attractive, etc.) Poverty, Miserable
Character actions: Cleaning and wishing
Facial expressions and body language: Miserable, weak, and Unhappy
Voice quality/ tone: Low
Job title: Director
Set Design: Décor and Props
Definition: Set design is the process of creating the physical surroundings in which the action of a production takes place.
	Set-design (décor and props): Cow, sticks/ logs, water bucket, old-fashioned wheelbarrow, Masonry oven, clothing wire, barrels
	Message: These props used in the opening film suggest that the storyline is based in the old days where they had to do everything by hand with no modern technology or appliances.
	Atmosphere/mood of the opening sequence: These props set a struggle like atmosphere because during this time period people had to manually do everything.
Décor: (Example red and black checkered floors, yellow walls, modern furniture, old shabby curtains, etc.) Rusty walls, Masonry oven, raggedy clothes make it known that the story is not based in modern times.
Props: Cows, sticks/logs for fire, wooden water bucket, old-fashioned wheelbarrow show that partv of this fairytale is based in the country.
Job title: Set Designer
Costumes, hair and make-up
Definition: Costumes and makeup in film are designed elements that express a character’s intention, mood, and backstory. They can tell us all about a character without words, through the choice of color, texture, fashion, hair, and special effects makeup.
	The costume is fancy black gowns and old, country, dirty clothing.    The hair and make up is modern/ fairytale, voluminous hair with natural makeup.
	Message: These appearances on the characters show that this film is based on multiple eras because of the different types of aesthetics in each characters look based on their storylines.
	Atmosphere/mood of the opening sequence: "Into the Woods" has a fantasy and magical mood, with characters dressed in fancy clothes and exquisite decorations. Their hair and makeup, complete with extravagant haircuts and larger-than-life personas, add to the atmosphere and set the setting for the wondrous voyage to unfold.
Costumes: fancy gowns and old dirty clothing show that this film includes different backstories for each character.
Hair: Extravagent updos and friizy untamed hair also shows how each character is different.
Make-up: Natural makeup in the opening scence concludes that the characters in this part are normal humans.
Job title: Makeup Artist/ Costume Designer/ Hairstylist
Lighting
Definition: Filming light refers to the directions, quality, source, or color of light.
	The lighting has many deep shadows, high contrast between bright & dark
	Message: The feeling of different emotions
	Atmosphere/mood of the opening sequence: Gloomy
Light Direction: Windows, objects, the sky
Light Source: Color filters, haze machines
Light Quality: Natural and organic
Job title: LD. Lighting designer
Composition
Definition: The nature of something’s ingredients or constituents; the way in which a whole or mixture is made up.
	The composition is into the Woods is a musically sophisticated show with the opportunity to feature actor's adept at dark comedy.
	Message: an exploration of parent-children's relationships and the need for letting go and growing up
	Atmosphere/mood of the opening sequence: The opening scene portrays a family singing about things they wish they had/could do and cleaning.
Framing Balance:
Depth of Field: Inside a home
Focus: Cleaning and Singing
Job title: Director
Color
Definition: Definition: The property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way the object reflects or emits light.
	The color is …… Brown, Blue, Black, Red, Goldand White
	Message: The message of the colors in this movie is showing that it is very dark, and gloomy
	Atmosphere/mood of the opening sequence:
Dominant Colors: Black, Blue and White
Meanings of colors: Dark/Gloomy
Job title: Gaffer or chief lighting technician

Reflection

The activity's objective is to be able to analyze media products and applying knowledge and understanding of theoretical and creative approaches. The name of the media text I created is a presentation. This exercise thought me how to analyze media products. The technology that was used were a computer. Plus being able to identify elements of mise en scene which I would say I'm intermediate in. I learned more about the elements of mise en scene, how they create the movie, and the impact.

Work-Cite

Team, N. (2023) Mise-en-scène - everything you need to know, NFI. Available at: https://www.nfi.edu/mise-en-scene/ (Accessed: 01 December 2023).