Cinematography

What's Cinematography you ask?

Cinematography is the art of camera work and photography within a piece of media film. Cinematic style means camera work and music that’s commonly found in genres. As a normal audience we don’t recognize these bits and bops, because we’re more into the movie, but with these cinematic conventions a genre would be difficult to recognize.

Cinematography refers to the camera shooting a movie or television show, and it includes the lighting, color, framing and other visual aspects of movie production, this is cinematography. The main focus of cinematography is capturing images for movies that are both beautiful and powerful in the way they drive narrative. 

Narrative, Themes and Audio Visual

Narrative

Narrative is typical happenings that go to make up the story for instants: House of wax; a group of teenagers get stranded in a isolated town because there car breaks down and then they get killed one by one by strange creature/thing/person.

Always on the run; each person comes into contact with the killer and then dies-except for the survivor and the hero; the killer finds out where the victims are.

 

Themes

 

Themes are ideas on what the stories are based round such as the survival of people from a mass murderer/ supernatural force (Exorcist); mental illness.

The fight between ‘good’ and ‘evil’; supernatural forces; Death, Torture.

 

Audio Visual

 

In all horror films there is fast editing and unusual camera angles.

Low angle shots, slow motion, special effects sudden cuts to close ups to make you jump such as woman in black which sought of makes you jump a lot n stereotypically all other supernatural or creepy films.

‘Spooky’ music, often very slow to build up the audiences tension and then to make them jump.

 

Why do genres change over time?

Why do genres change over time?

 Genres change over time because there are new generations and people get bored of old films and the new generations of people are more curious and want to know more.

They want excitement on films and enjoy

The different ways of killing and they try to experiment.

Why Genres are important for…

Why Genres are important for…

Audience…

Genres are important for the audience, because they will be able to know what type of film they would like to watch and everyone have different tastes on what they like to watch, so it helps them pick out the film related to the category.

Film Industry…

Genre is important in film industry because if there successful they’ll be able to make another sequel to the movie and it will be cheaper as well…

Genre

Genre: 

Refers to a category of media products that are classified as being similar inform or type.

For example: 

• Low key lighting, 
• Stereotypical Characters I.E. Dumb Blondie's, 
• Abandoned Houses
• Serial Killers 
• Psychotic Killer
• Isolated area

They all Link to one genre, which is Horror. 

Thriller 

The Thriller Genre is a different genre and most people they relate that its the same as Horror but they are very different such as in the thriller genre it's more fast paced and has more frequent action involved in the film also thrillers are based on potential real-life or sometimes real life events and monsters:

• Hostage situations,
• Home Invasion/Rape,
• Plane Crashes,
• Bank Robberies,
• Car Chases,
• Stalkers, etc...

 They can be scary and keep you on the edge of your seat while you grip on to you popcorn and see the real life theme to the thriller movie such as north by northwest i kept my seat on for example when the main character was being chased by the crop-duster and to escape the flying menace.

Welcome Post

Welcome to my A Level Media Studies Blog, in this blog I'll be posting about the work I'm doing and I'll be analysing thriller films, and my blog posts will be based round the thriller genre. I hope you  enjoy my blog.