January 2012 paper - moving image

The clip portrays a certain image of different ages through the use of mise en scene, camera, editing and sound. In this clip of the hit show in the USA, ER, there are many scenes that give the audience a different view of the stereotypical ages.

Firstly, the clip starts with a male doctor talking to a woman who is older than him and seems to be higher up than him in the hospital; this automatically signifies to the audience that the older the person in the hospital the more superior they are. Then the man walks in to a room with a very young looking boy in the bed who seems to have a life threatening illness from suggestions from the dialogue. The producer has used mice en scene very well as they have made everything very low key and dull in the room to match the characters emotion. Prior to the boy speaking the over the shoulder shots, helped by the use of continuity editing indicates that the older man has more knowledge and maturity than the young boy. However as the scene goes on the audience realise that the young boy his very clever and thoughtful for his age, this is indicated through the dialogue and through the mise en scene. In one part of the scene he mentions how he doesn’t want to worry his mother and the financial side of the treatment he will need; this clearly illustrates to the audience that he is very mature for his age. Lastly, in this scene the audience witness that the boy is playing a very complicated puzzle book which again indicates to the audience that the boy is intelligent and isn’t the stereotypical 12/13 year old boy.

The quick cut to the next scene is to the accident emergency room where there are many patients in the room, which emphasises the mayhem in the room. The opening part of the scene consists of another young boy who got bitten; the young boy is crying and is with his mum, this is a contrast with the previous scene of the young boy who was very mature. This emphasises the fact that the boy with the serious life threatening illness is very mature and not showing emotion unlike the other boy who was crying over a very minor injury. The camera and mise en scene in this scene highlights the mayhem in the room, as the camera looks self-held and very jerky like a documentary, this helps emphasis the panic in the room.

In the next scene the bald headed man who is talking to the woman seems to be older than all the woman in the scene, this again highlights the fact that in the hospital the older the person the higher up the person is. The man at the end of the bed is also telling the woman thing that she doesn’t know which makes him seem very patronizing towards her, again signifying that the older the person the more intelligent they are.

In the next scene when the two doctors are speaking, it highlights to the audience that the man is quite immature for his age, saying how he can’t live without this woman for a few months or so. Again this creates an opinion in the viewers mind that not every older person is more mature than younger people as seen in scene one.

The producer then backs up this point by having a rather old man in the background with a younger man facing the camera, and the younger man seems more capable and higher up than the older man. This again illustrates to the audience that maturity and power doesn’t depend on age.

Throughout the clip there was very sharp, quick editing which emphasises the mayhem in the hospital and how hospitals are normally like. Also the sound of shouting and sirens in the AE room is very loud assign to the panic in the scene.

Finally in the last scene the doctor ‘loses the bullet’ of a patient which isn’t an adult thing to do which again allows the audience to question whether maturity depends on the age of people.

Overall I believe that the clip portrays to the viewer that it doesn’t matter what age you are, you can be mature or immature; they do this well through the use of all four factors, mise en scene, camera, sound and editing.

The Inbetweeners movie

Case Study 1 - Mission Impossible 4

Mini analyse 6

Mise en scene

In the opening scene, when the male and female are in the shop the audience can see from the start that the woman is the stereotypical female who loves shopping, dresses etc. The clothes and the jewelry she is wearing automatically portray this image of her being a very elegant and petite, which the directors try to convey to the audience. When the scene cuts to the men in the house it emphasizes the difference in gender between men and women; the men are standing around with a class of whisky and smoking a cigar. This again fits in with the stereotypical male characteristics; one is wearing a very smart suit, which again is the iconic men’s clothing to wear.

In a very short scene a man is trying to fix or create some sort of alarm, which again highlights to the audience that males are more likely to be mysterious and involved in crooked things; the dialogue throughout the clip indicates to the audience that something is going on that is not legal.

The other male in the suit who ‘finds’ the ring is also is presented as a rather manly character as he has a cockney accent and is wearing a suit. He was also presented as a cocky character, in comparison to the woman who was very timid and shy at the beginning and a nervous wreck once she lost her ring.

Finally in the last scene when the male and female are in the café the female is in a tight fitted jacket, showing some cleavage; this highlights that woman tend to be more of the flirtatious sex, whilst the man is more focused on the money he earned. 

Case Study - Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol

Pre production:

Ghost Protocol was written by André Nemec and Josh Appelbaum, and produced by Cruise, J.J. Abrams (the third film's director) and Bryan Burk. It saw the return of the first film's editor, Paul Hirsch, and is also the first Mission: Impossible film to be partially filmed using IMAX cameras.

This was a sequel of the previous three mission impossible films and due to the success of the first three; there was no hesitation that this sequel wouldn’t be any better.

As mission impossible is such a well-known name it wasn’t hard for them to get financial backing from companies, such as: Paramount and Skydance Productions.

The production company was bad robot productions, which have produced many films including: Cloverfield, Mission Impossible 3, Star Trek and more.

The producers were Tom Cruise (also the main actor), J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk. Tom Cruise has been involved in every single mission impossible movie so it is understandable that Mr Cruise would be part of the production team as he contains experience. J.J. Abrams was also chosen to produce the movie as he has a great record of movies that he has produced, he also directed, wrote and produced mission impossible 3 so he again had a lot of experience with this genre of movie.

The director was Brad Bird, who had directed many animated films including such as The Incredibles, Ratatouille, The Iron Giant and more. So this was a very bold and brave for them to appoint a director who has not got that much experience with action movies.

Production:

Casting – they kept the main character Tom Cruise which was a shock to some fans as there were rumors that the main character ‘Ethan Hunt’ was going to be replaced by other A – list celebrity actors, such as Brad Pitt. The movie cast also has other big named stars such as: Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton, Michael Nyqvist and Vladimir Mashkov.

Locations - Filming took place in Dubai, Prague, Moscow, Mumbai, Bangalore and Vancouver. Tom Cruise performed a sequence where Ethan Hunt scales the outside of the Burj Khalifa tower, which is the world's tallest building, without the use of a stunt double. Although Cruise appears to be free solo climbing in the film with the help of special gloves, in reality, he was securely attached to the Burj Khalifa at all times by multiple cables. Industrial Light & Magic digitally erased the cables in post-production.

Many of the film's interior scenes were shot at Vancouver's Canadian Motion Picture Park, including a key transition scene in a specially equipped IMF train car.

The film was originally announced with a working name of Mission: Impossible 4 and codenamed "Aries" during early production.

The film was partially shot with IMAX cameras, which made up approximately 30 minutes of the film's run time. Bird insisted that certain scenes of the film be shot in IMAX, as opposed to 3D, as he felt that the IMAX format offered the viewer more immersion due to its brighter, higher quality image, which is projected on a larger screen, without the need for specialized glasses.

Distribution:

The distributor is paramount pictures, they are a big distribution company founded in 1912 and have distributed many great and huge movies, including the Godfather, Grease, Mission Impossible and many more.

Following the world premiere in Dubai on December 7, 2011, the film was released in IMAX and other large-format theaters in the U.S. on December 16, 2011, with general release on December 21, 2011.

In July 2011, a teaser trailer for Ghost Protocol was released illustrating new shots from the film, one of which being Tom Cruise scaling the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa building in Dubai. Moreover; prior to its release, the studio presented IMAX footage of the film to an invitation-only crowd of opinion makers and journalists at central London's BFI IMAX Theater.

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol was released on Blu-ray, DVD and digital download on April 17, 2012.

Publicity - During November 2011, Paramount released a Facebook game of the film in order to promote it. The new game allowed players to choose the roles of IMF agents and assemble teams to embark on a multiplayer journey. Players were also able to win tickets to the film's U.S. premiere and a hometown screening of the film for 30 friends.

They have a Facebook page which created awareness for the movie as there is over a billion people on facebook.

Trailer – the official trailer is very effective in attracting the audience as it has a well-known rapper (Eminem) singing, which draws in the audience. Also the clip is for 2:24 minutes, which is considerably a long time, which allows all the main actors to be seen by the audience that again entices the audience as they see that well-known, famous actors are in the movie. The trailer also represents the genre very well as it displays a lot of action going on in the movie and adventures actives, such as Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) climbing up the Burj Khalifa or Ethan falling of a building whilst shooting at some one.

Exhibition:

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol received very strong positive reviews, scoring a 93% "Certified Fresh" approval rating on review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, based on 212 reviews, with an average rating of 7.7/10 and an audience rating of 85%, making it the best-reviewed entry of the series.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3.5 out of 4 stars, saying the film "is a terrific thriller with action sequences that function as a kind of action poetry". Stephen Whitty of The Star-Ledger wrote, "The eye-candy - from high-tech gadgets to gorgeous people - has only been ratcheted up. And so has the excitement." He also gave the film 3.5 out of 4 stars.

The budget was £145 million

Ghost Protocol grossed worldwide total of $694,713,380. It is the highest-grossing film worldwide in the Mission: Impossible series, and the 5th highest-grossing film of 2011. It is also the highest-grossing film worldwide starring Tom Cruise, eclipsing War of the Worlds from the top spot.

Mini analyse 5

In this clip, sexuality is clearly represented by the use of semionics of camera, editing, sound and mise en scene.

At the start, Miss Mord is shown to have feelings for the other female character. One use of mise en scene which demonstrates this is at the start of the scene. The female character is standing in front of a mirror whilst Miss Mord is behind her. Both of which are looking into a mirror whilst the female character holds a dress against herself.

The use of a midshot allows the audience to see Miss Mords facial expression. She gazes as the females reflection in the mirror with the expression of being slightly taken aback by the "beauty" of the female character. This may give the audience the impression that she may find the female attractive. This is further enhanced as the use of non-digetic sound allows the audience to hear Mords thoughts which are "she looked beautiful". Another scene which shows this is when Mord and the female character are on a bed.

Whilst the female character is asleep, Mord can be seen resting next to her with her hand hovering over the females body. Mord seems unsure of whether to touch the female or not, so runs her hand down the womans body without touching her. This demonstrates that Mord clearly wished to caress the female character and shows a form of boundary between the two characters as Mord feels unable to express her feelings to the female.

Mini analyse 4 - A Touch of Frost

A touch of Frost Disability is clearly shown within this clip via the use of camera, editing, sound and mise en scene. During the scene of the police and Billy within the forest, a variety of camera angles are used to show how disability is represented within society.

The close up shot of the police dog, resembles Billy being hunted as if he is pray, as we can see the policemen and dogs are eager to find him. Once the police see Billy, a close up shot of Billy's face enables us to see that he appears to be scared and worried. Being able to see that Billy is disabled also makes people feel sympathy for Billy as they may assume him to be innocent and pity him for being disabled. Therefore seeing him scared emphasises this.

A low angle medium shot is used to show Billy being tackled to the floor by the officer and not being able to escape the officer's hold. This resembles Billy as being less powerful than the man and therefore more vulnerable. Within this shot the audience can see Billy being held up by his collar which also resembles his vulnerability. Here the use of digetic sound is used to emphasis the fact the audience would assume Billy is innocent due to the fact he is disabled.

Billy says that he hasn't "done anything wrong" which appears to make Billy seem powerless. The tone in which this is said by Billy is almost childlike and further links with making the audience feel pity for him. Dialouge is further used in the next scene during a conversation between Billy's father and the inspector. The inspector refers to Billy as being "mentally subnormal" to which the father firmly corrects him by saying "handicapped". This shows that the use of words by the inspector represents Billy as not being the same in terms of someone who is normal. Maybe referring to an abled person. To which this seems to slightly offend the father. Handicapped is used instead to describe Billy as does not single him out as being un-normal.