Thomas Grace AICE Media Studies - AS Level

  Magazine: Hemispheres (an inflight magazine for United Airlines)  https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/fly/travel/inflight/entertainment/reading.html   Genre: Travel, Business, Trends Purpose: Inform, Entertain, and advertise/inspire more flights and potential travels Demographics:  Age = 18+ Location = No specific area Gender = Non-specific Income level = enough to travel Education level = Not important Marital or family status = Couples/Families primarily Occupation = Business / People who can travel frequently / Military / Retired Ethnic background = Non-specific Potential Psychographics: - Reader is someone who possibly has a choice of where they can work and be moved for work such as military - Reader wants to get away from their day-to-day life when they travel - Reader probably values the importance of mental health and staying in a good headspace  - Reader may have a family that they want to create a memorable experience for when they travel - Reader proba...

  Thomas Grace Rebecca Meloy AICE Media Studies 11/15/21 Film Viewing Practice Essay “Agent Carter” Film has many purposes one of which being to provoke emotion or meaning through strings of various aspects of film. Aspects such as sound, editing, mise en scene, and camera shots or angles. Without those aspects being expressed in specific manners they are nothing more than just a jumble of facets in film. Within the first five minutes of Agent Carter (Marvel One Shots) we see various examples of the aspects of film using editing, sound, mise en scene, and camera shots and angles to induce meaning. To begin, the camera shots, angles, movements, and composition used in the film are one of the most obvious points of constructing meaning. Within the first thirty seconds we see camera shots already being used to show value. Steve Roger is seen putting a picture of Peggy Carter on his speedometer. After putting the picture there we see it pan back to Steve’s face as he is staring at...

 

 “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. Ev...

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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 handcuf...

 I commented on Tayton’s post and Cameron’s post. For Cameron’s post I said: I like the double shot because it’s a better establishing shot, showing us whats going on and more detail at the same time The POV builds onto whats going on in the game very well I think the extreme long shot with the cards being thrown is very unique but captures the action well The OtS shot builds onto the suspense of the card game great For Tayton’s post i said POV: I like this shot as it establishes the plot and shows us what’s going on at the same time The double shot shows us the surroundings around the player as well as what’s currently going on so we aren’t confused  The overhead shot is unique and adds to the story by showing us both player’s hands at the same time Cut in - the cut in helps you really see what the players are thinking about