A-Level Media Studies

THE COMMUTER How does the sound create genre? The tension increases dramatically which is common in the thriller genre.When the woman stops talking the action begins and the music speeds up and moves with liem nesons character. How does the sound help the narrative? It helps to show a clear story line. Its shows that the woman has a lot of power and this movie contains a lot of violence and protntialy death but we don't see that in the trailer. Is this sound typical for the thriller genre? The sound effects used in this trailer for the movie "The commuter" are also used in other thriller movies so its very common and doesn't make it really any different from the other films. Sound track - Created a gradual sense of tension. It increases very fast then action is shown increasing it even more. Asynchronous sound - This can be seen with the movements during the short clip. When he is fighting the people on the train for example. Sound Bridge - This happ

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Cinematography  A) This shot is point of view. B) This is effective because the audience feel more involved in the film or production. It can be good for horror films because it creates more tension and suspense. C) Its a good shot because everything seems to be in detail and you see it how everyone else would. D) It would be improved if the shot was longer so you got a real view of what you would see. A) This is a establishing shot. B) This is effective because you an see the whole view and if its in high definition it makes it more enjoyable for the audience. C) If its high definition then it can be an effective shot. D) If There was a bigger shot or the view was more dramatic it would be more effective and memorable for the audience. A)This shot is called shallow focus. B) This is effective because then the audience only has to focus on one thing. Its also not effective as it could be quite boring if its used to much as the audience could be missing ou

Characters in long form dramas Cinematography- The art of photography and camerawork in film making. Visual elements of the film. Stranger things: -They have cut all of elevens hair off and given her a buzzcut which in strange because girls usually have long hair. It makes her look like a boy. Which could be argued that it was made that way as she is the hero and usually a boy is the hero or her car could just be cut for other purposes at the labs. -The hospital gown that eleven wears males the audience think that she is from a mental hospital or is a run away from the hospital. This creates mystery for the audience which also creates suspense. -The audience see that eleven doesn't talk which makes the audience wonder if she is dangerous or wonder if something has happened to her to make her this way. -She doesn't understand normal civilised world so eleven steals food but the man tries to catch her but she uses her powers to stop him. So she can use her powers for

BBC ONE- They try to aim for a perverse selection of shows and dramas for everyone on abc one.  They choose dramas that have multiple parts to it. The audience that is most likely to watch BBC one is older people. But they are showing other shows to reach a younger  audience. Mid week shows are critical and serous that goes to a loyal audience. Saturday night is prime time TV where they show Doctor who and other shows that go towards family and a younger audience with a hint for the older audience. They want to show edgier things to go for a younger audience. They like to challenge people and themselves.  BBC TWO- This is a mainstream channel. The audiences are older because they have edgy angled perspective of the world. they want to appeal to the older audience who are smarter as it is an older demographic.  BBC THREE- Its online. This make it more specified to people who are teens because they tend to be online more then the older generation. BBC ONE  and TWO you can watch live