“Media is communication” Discuss ways that you have
used media language to create meanings in one of your media products?
When working on Final Cut Express to edit our footage we were able to learn a variety of new skills and techniques and develop them further the more we edited our opening sequence. One skill in particular that I learnt after several attempts at trying to create this was a wire-framing effect where I was able to display two separate pieces of visual imagery, that is, one shot of the female protagonist slowly beginning to wake up from her dream as she began to slowly open and close her eyes and the second shot was of the ceiling which was filmed slightly blurred and was a POV shot of what the protagonist was looking at as she began to wake up. Each of these images were placed on top of each other and then blended together using the blend tool where we were able to change the percentage of how bright the image appeared on screen lowering it slightly, allowing it to blend in with the second visual image. An additive dissolve was also an effect used to create the blinking effect where the two visual images blended from being together as one to suddenly changing back to two separate images. This particular effect was inspired from a scene in the film, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly." We used a wire-framing effect again during another stage of our thriller opening sequence, when creating our company production logo where we began to animate a still image of a keyhole to coincide with the production company name of 'Keyhole Productions.' Along with this, I also learnt how to create a subtle fade in and fade out effect when creating the credits for our opening sequence and a dip to colour effect where I changed the colour from black to white in order to create a white flash highlighting the barrier between appearance/the dream world and reality (the moment the protagonist was having the premonition).
In terms of our narrative structure we decided to follow Todorov's five stage model theory. Todorov argues that "narrative involves a transformation. The characters or situations are transformed through the progress of disruption." Todorov's five stage model stands in the order of an 'equilibrium, disruption, recognition of disruption, attempting to repair disruption and a return of new equilibrium,' as we wanted our audience to have a clear understanding about what the narrative was about, by clearly understanding who was the hero, for instance in the film Premonition there are two main characters Yasmin and Nimesh. However only one of which is the hero, this is the Yasmin as she attempts to survive her premonition and find out why it is that her boyfriend is trying to murder her.
In our own soundtrack we decided
to create a melody that once it began to play it engaged the audiences’
attention immediately. What is more, is that we wanted to create a soundtrack where the louder the noise became it began to make audiences heat beat race and throat to suddenly becomes dry, allowing fear to take over, delivering a roller coaster of human emotions. In my opinion, if these elements consist in a thriller soundtrack
then this is what makes the overall film successful and enthralling.
Media language is an exceptionally important factor when creating meaning in a media product, and I believe that both Khushel and I achieved this successfully when creating our psychological thriller film opening. According to John Fiske, "denotation is what is filmed, connotation is how it is filmed" and I believe that we clearly applied this to our media product by ensuring that we created a narrative story line in an attention-grabbing and fast paced manner that allowed audiences to become engrossed and enthralled by the overall product.
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