Eisha Rehan - media studies blog

we finally decided our team members, it was really difficult to select who would do what and we were so indecisive but we"ve come up with the roles and everything. Writing: Iqra Ahmed and Hamd Saadan producer: Eisha Rehan Assistant producer: Simran Saleem and Hamd Saadan Director: Iqra ahmed Assistant director: Hamd Saadan and Simran saleem Camera: Hamd Saadan and Eisha Rehsn Editor: Hamd Assistant editor: Simran saleem,Iqra ahmed and Eisha rehan Sound engineer: Iqra Ahmed Assistant sound engineer: Simran saleem, Eisha Rehan and Hamd Saadan makeup artist: Simran saleem Actors: Simran and Hamd

camera angles: low angle, high angle, eye level,canted angle bird's eye view and worm's eye view camera shots: very wide shot, wide shot, full shot, medium long shot, medium shot, close up, big closeup, extreme closeup camera movements:pan movement, tilt up or down, dolly in/out,zoom in/out,crane movement,ped, tracking shot,steadicam

Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, photographic, visual, audible, or cinematic material used by a person or an entity to convey a message or information. transitions: the moving from one shot to another is called transition. there are many type of doing this. you can turn the screen black or white or you can simply do it in a way that the audience doesnt feel the cutting. different transitions have different impacts on the audience.for example if someone kills the other person and the screen turns black, it leaves the audience in awe of what happened next? pace: how quickly the images on the screen change. its either fast or slow pace. the pace also has hidden meanings for the audience 180 degree rule:The 180 rule is a filmmaking technique that helps the audience keep track of where your characters are in a scene. When you have two people or two groups facing each other in the same shot, you have to establish a 180-degree angle, or a straight line, between t...

i was practising editing on adobe premeire the other day. i just started using it and its quite interesting. at first i found it difficult and confusing but Im getting used to it.

The content our society views on screen is supposed to reflect its people, but all too often the entertainment and media industries tend to marginalize people of color, and women, just to name a few. Stories affect all areas of life in terms of how people view themselves, how they live their lives, and how they see others. Some of the content that these industries distribute to the public remains the only form of representation some individuals see, and these portrayals may be accurate or inaccurate. Media depicts stereotypical representations for people of color and women, whether through Hollywood or on the news, as violent criminals, the help, terrorists, submissive characters, highly sexualized beings, unintelligent people, and more. Similarly, there are concerns for Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) populations and depictions of disabled persons. Seeing oneself on screen is crucial because society is not monolithic, but multifaceted. The continued cycle of ex...

its one of my hobbies to take pictures, especially nature. these are some of the pictures i took, i have an instagram account i made recently where i post my photographs.

Introduces the protagonist in a way that communicates their main skills, qualities, quirks, and weaknesses efficiently and visually. This one is very common for scenes that feature the protagonist. By the end of the first scene, the audience can often see the good and bad of this character and is already getting an inkling for how they are going to screw things up and why they need so badly to change (which they may or may not ever successfully do, depending on what kind of story you’re telling). Introduces the world. Where are we? When are we? If it’s a period piece, indications of the time period are introduced in the first scene. If the world has a geography that the viewer needs to understand (even if it’s just the hallways of a high school), the first scene will sometimes intentionally orient the audience to this map. If there’s magic in the world or strange rules or customs, we’ll likely see those right away too. Offers audiences a “before” picture to later compare with the “af...

Prologue Montage with Voiceover Sometimes this prologue is a montage with voiceover narration that dumps a ton of exposition on the audience at once. Just about every screenwriting guru on Earth will tell you to avoid voiceover like the plague, but it’s surprisingly common even in critically-acclaimed films and can be effective when used thoughtfully. Prologue Scene without Voiceover Prologues don’t always have voiceover. Sometimes instead it’s a flashback scene that reveals a pivotal moment in the past (usually childhood) of an important character INCITING INCIDENT In many movies, there are about ten minutes or so of setup before the movie’s inciting incident (the first event that kicks off a profound change in the protagonist’s life), but in some movies the inciting incident happens on practically the first page. A DAY IN THE LIFE A “Day in the Life” opening scene is a scene that introduces the main character — usually revealing a key strength and key liability — and shows what th...

the genre of the movie is set by certain conventions in the story,plot,setting and character.Categorizing a movie indirectly assists in shaping the characters and the story of the movie. The shaping determines the plot and best setting to use.Movies often have genres that overlap, such as adventure in a spy movie, or crime in a science fiction movie. But one genre is predominant. The language of film includes sound, moving images, editing, camera angle, music, sets, special effects, pacing, and the conditions of production. These formal elements work together to tell the film’s story, to convey its mood, and to communicate the film-maker’s vision. They all contribute to the ways in which we ‘read’ a film. Reading a film involves understanding the story we see unfold on screen and acknowledging the formal elements that make up film language. Formal analysis is the active process of decoding these formal elements. If you are writing about a film, you must include some formal analysis. ...

semiotics, also called semiology, the study of signs and sign-using behaviour. It was defined by one of its founders, the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, as the study of “the life of signs within society.” He defined a sign as “something which stands to somebody for something,” and one of his major contributions to semiotics was the categorization of signs into three main types: (1) an icon, which resembles its referent (such as a road sign for falling rocks); (2) an index, which is associated with its referent (as smoke is a sign of fire); and (3) a symbol, which is related to its referent only by convention (as with words or traffic signals). Peirce also demonstrated that a sign can never have a definite meaning, for the meaning must be continuously qualified. Saussure treated language as a sign-system, and his work in linguistics supplied the concepts and methods that semioticians applied to sign-systems other than language. One such basic semiotic concept is Saussure’s dist...

The opening of Little Miss Sunshine does a brilliant job of efficiently introducing us to the film’s themes and characters the film’s opening scene brilliantly establishes the film’s narrative drive, characters and themes. Each character is given a small introduction but it’s all we need to understand how their arcs will feature in the upcoming story. I love this movie! one of my favourites and the film opening of this one ofcourse! mind blowing! This is my all time favourite. whenever i dont know what to watch, i watch this movie and its absolutely hilarious and amazing script!