Thomas Grace AICE Media Studies - AS Level

 “Unexcused Absence” by Soren Schoeust, Thomas Grace, and Ethan Cardona https://youtu.be/6GC98tdA1tM In total there are 8 different  sounds in our video. (Sounds that repeat aren’t included multiple times) 1. Intro Music - This helps ease the viewer into the mood at the very beginning of our video, but they quickly see that mood was a rouse with the plot of the video.  2. Ethan’s Character Theme - Whenever Ethan’s character is onscreen a creepy tone plays to signify his motives and what he plans to do. For a lot of the stuff he’s doing, its normal stuff but the theme signifies that he has alterior motives. We can see this when Soren is walking in the halls and Ethan does the exact same thing but with a creepy tone. 3. Soren’s Happy Music - This like the theme above helps play into the contrast between the two characters. Soren and Ethan both walk normally but their themes define their real motives.  4. Footsteps - The footsteps help build a sense of intensity. Every scene before th

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 In the movie: The Dark Knight (2008), specifically the scene of Batman interrogating the Joker, there isn’t as much action going on when compared to the rest of the movie, but we still see so much emotion conveyed. In the beginning of the scene, we see a two shot between Commissioner Gordon and the Joker. This is the first sort of emotion we see. Whenever the camera is over the shoulder of Gordon and on the Joker, they emphasize his craziness by having him do frantic looking around and moving his tongue and mouth around. When the camera is on Gordon, we see him trying to keep his cool, by attempting to keep eye contact with the Joker, but we can also tell he is nervous by his need to cut the Joker off of his creepy rambling and how he begins to breathe faster and faster. He also fidgets with the key to the handcuff a bit before unlocking the Joker’s handcuff. This creates a feeling of immense uncertainty to the viewer as the commissioner is even a bit scared talking to the handcuffed