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The document discusses various techniques used in media production including camerawork, editing, sound, lighting, setting, mise-en-scene, actors, color, and written codes. It also discusses concepts like conventions, messages, audiences, producers, stakeholders and their types.

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LESSON6

The document discusses various techniques used in media production including camerawork, editing, sound, lighting, setting, mise-en-scene, actors, color, and written codes. It also discusses concepts like conventions, messages, audiences, producers, stakeholders and their types.

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CS15 Media and

Information Literacy
I-word
Prayer
Good day,
everyone!
Media and
Information
Languages
Learning Objective

• Identify codes, conventions, and


messages
• Differentiate audience,
producers, and other
stakeholders in media and
information languages
CORE VALUES AND 21ST CENTURY SKILLS

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Media and
Information
Languages
Ways in which equipment is
used to tell the story (camera
techniques, framing, depth of
fields, lighting and exposure,
etc.)
Extreme Wide Shot Wide Shot
Medium Shot Medium Close-up Shot
Extreme Close-Up Shot
Camera angles are also referred
to as viewing perspective.

They describe the angle of the


camera in relation to the subject.

There are six main types of


camera angles.
Low Angle High Angle Eye Level
Shot
Bird’s eye Worm’s eye Canted
Aspects of camerawork
It refers to how the include:
camera is operated, Positioning
positioned and moved Movement
for specific effects. Framing
Exposure
Lens choice
This is the process of choosing, manipulating
and arranging images and sound.

Fast editing generates excitement and


anticipation and slow editing has a calming
and relaxing effect on the viewer.
Some Cut – two shots are joined in a
way that looks like an
common instantaneous change between
editing shots.

techniques Fade – The image appears or


are as disappears gradually by slowly
fading to black, white or another
follows: colour. The fade is often used as a
division between scenes.

Dissolve – an image on screen


slowly fades away while the next
image slowly fades in (either a
voiceover or a piece of music).
Some Parallel Editing/Cross-cutting –
cuts between scenes that are
common happening simultaneously but in
editing different locations.

techniques
Point-of-view Edit – a series of
are as shots reveal what a character is
follows: seeing and their reaction to it via
facial expression

Montage – a series of shots from


different settings or times shown in
sequence to create a continuous
reality. There is usually voiceover
or music played over the top.
This is the expressive or naturalistic use of
sound. Audio can be diegetic or non-diegetic.
The three aspects of audio are:
• Dialogue
• sound effects
• music
Dialogue is defined as a
conversation between two or more
people in a movie.
• monologue

voiceover

•
voice
Sound effects are any sound, other
than music or speech, artificially
reproduced to create an effect.
•
post production.
•

sound effects
effect
Music in film is a powerful
emotional trigger that
achieves a number of
things:
• mood atmosphere
• setting
•
events
•
actions
thoughts
This is the manipulation of natural or
artificial light to selectively highlight
specific elements of the scene.
Show what is beneath the
surface of what we see
(objects, setting, body
language, clothing, color, etc.)
This is the time and place of the narrative.
When discussing setting, you can describe
the setting of the whole story or just a
specific scene. A setting can be as big as the
outback or space, or as small as a specific
room. Setting can even be a created
atmosphere or frame of mind.
Mise en scene is a French term that
means ‘everything within the frame’. In
media terms it has become to mean the
description of all the objects within a frame
of the media product and how they have
been arranged. An analysis of mise en
scene includes:
Set Design
Costume
Props
Staging and Composition
Actors portray characters in media
products and contribute to character
development, creating tension or
advancing the narrative. The actor
portrays a character through:
Facial expression
Body Language
Vocal qualities
Movement
Body contact
It has highly cultural and strong
connotations. When studying the
use of colour in a media product
the different aspects to be looking
at are:
Dominant colour
Contrasting foils
Colour symbolism
Written codes are the formal
written language used in a
media product. Just like
technical and symbolic codes,
written codes can be used to
advance a narrative,
communicate information
about a character or issues
and themes in the media
product.
CONVENTIONS
- Refers to a standard or norm that acts as a rule
governing behavior;
- Are generally established and accepted ways of
doing something

MEDIA CONVENTIONS
Rules or patterns of constructing, organizing and
integrating meaning in media
MESSAGE
AUDIENCE
PRODUCERS
TYPE OF PRODUCERS
TYPE OF PRODUCERS
TYPE OF PRODUCERS
TYPE OF PRODUCERS
TYPE OF PRODUCERS
STAKEHOLDERS
TWO TYPES OF STAKEHOLDERS
INTERNAL EXTERNAL

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