Aice Media Studies


 What I've learned...

    At the beginning of this course, i had no knowledge of how to create blog post, put together a magazine, or even interview people. I later found it that it's not as easy as i thought. Throughout the course i slowly gained a better understanding of how things work in the media. How blogs are published, putting together a magazine, analyzing a film, using misc-en-scene, and more. 
    Mise-en-scene is the stage design and arrangement of actors in scenes for a theatre or film production, both in visual arts through storyboarding, visual theme, and cinematography, and in narrative storytelling through direction. 
    I also learned that camera angles and shots play a big role in films and even in pictures. 
Camera Angles
  • Eye level – camera points straight ahead. Intention is to be objective.
  • Low angle – camera points up from a lower angle. 
  • High angle – camera points down from a higher angle. 
  • Dutch – tilted angle. 
  • Over the shoulder – not strictly an angle, but it's a specialized shot that deserves its own place.
The camera shot angle is used to specify the location where the camera is placed to take a shot. The position of the camera in relation to the subjects can affect the way the viewer perceives the scene. A scene may be shot simultaneously from multiple camera angles to amplify the cinematic effect and the emotions.
Camera Angles
  • Extreme close-up shot.
  • Close-up shot.
  • Medium shot.
  • Medium wide shot (American shot)
  • Wide shot (full shot)
  • Extreme wide shot (long shot)
Another thing that i learned throughout this course was how to write a feature story. A feature story is a piece of non-fiction writing about news. A feature story is a type of soft news. The main sub-types are the news feature and the human-interest story. A feature story is distinguished from other types of non-news by the quality of the writing.

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