Induction Assessment 2015

My Starting Point

Give examples of skills and/or experience you have in this area. Think about projects or work you have completed which have used these skills.

Rate yourself 1-10(1= unconfident, 10 = extremely confident)

Mac computers Used macs in yr6 6/10Photoshop non 0InDesign non 0Final Cut non 0DSLR Cameras Slight experience making a movie with my

sister for her film studies3/10

Micro areas of moving image [editing, camera, sound and mise en scene]

non 0

Assignment 1: Write a 500 written analysis of representation of age and social class. You must make reference to the micro areas of mise en scene and camera, using appropriate terminology.

People just do nothing

The first shot we see in the scene is a medium long shot where we see most of the characters and some of the environment behind, this scene is set in front of high rise flats, this shows that these characters are stereotypically lower class as these areas are associated with poverty and crime. By placing these characters in this location makes the audience automatically think that they are of a lower class for being in an area that is typically rough. This is then shown again as we get a long shot of the characters and we get to see what their costumes are, all of the characters in the frame are dressed in tracksuits, this then shows the audience that they are of a lower class as “tracksuits” are very informal and are typically worn by lower class people, and these costumes could even suggest to the audience that the characters are criminals as people of a lower class are stereotypically involved in crime.

In the next scene the use of dialogue shows the audience how uneducated the character “grindah” is when he says “angel is getting Christianed” by his mispronunciation of the word “christened” reveals to the audience that he is of a lower class as typically youths from a lower income family would skip school and wouldn’t get a good education, thus linking back to why “grindah” uses this vocabulary.

The use of mise en scene in the next scene reveals again that these characters are of a lower social class when we get to see the inside of their flat, the areas that we see are very cluttered and messy, and the connotations of mess and dirt are poverty and an area of low income, this reveals to the audience that they are of a lower class as they do not keep their living space tidy.

These characters (grindah, beats,decoy) are then represented very stereotypically again when we see a long shot of them using illegal drugs as typically people that use drugs are from low income families and live in places

Induction Assessment 2015

full of poverty, this is then reinforced with the use of dialogue of “blazing all night” thus revealing them to be very generic lower class characters.

Social status is then revealed in the performance of the two characters “Grindah” and “Beats” throughout the scene we see beats trying to impress grindah and is constantly trying to win his respect, this shows the audience that beats is of a lower social status as he is always looking up to grindah. This is then reinforced when the camera uses a high angle when beats is in the frame to show his inferiority to grindah as the angle makes beats look smaller in the frame, and by using a low angle when grindah is in the frame reveals that grindah is clearly of a higher authority.

Overall the use of mise en scene and the performance of the actors revealed to the audience how lower class the characters are, by the use of costumes, dressing the characters in track suits and their dialogue “christened” clearly portrays them as lower class and common.

Assignment 2: Task 1: Prepare flat plans for a new college magazine, to include a front page and contents page. Task 2: Create the front page of the magazine using Photoshop and a downloaded font from DaFont.com.

Induction Assessment 2015

Induction Assessment 2015

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