AICE Media Studies

In order to analyze mise-en-scene, I chose to use the first episode of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina , "Chapter One: October Country," on Netflix. Following the cartoonish and creepy introductory sequence, which takes inspiration from the comics ( Chilling Adventures of Sabrina , by Archie Comics) that the series is based off of, the first episode opens to a voice-over describing the town of Greendale as the camera focuses on the exterior of a retro-style movie theater. It's obviously fall in Greendale, as leaves are shown swirling down the street in a brisk wind, and the colors of the theater's neon signage is over-saturated, lending a surreal, 70s-inspired atmosphere to the scene. This atmosphere adds to the strange mood of the show, and helps to establish the aesthetic early on. The camera then draws into the theater to show the title character, Sabrina, unaffected by the horror movie playing on the screen while her boyfriend is visibly frightened. In this sho...

Working with the audio of a piece of film doesn't seem like it would be a particularly daunting task, until you realize that even a simple change can affect every aspect of the narrative sequence. For this week's project, we added sound to our Five Master Edits project from a few weeks back, and  this video is the result of that. 1) Post Synchronization Dubbing: We added the "Inception noise" to the Leitmotif section, which plays every time Josh and I dab. In doing so, I realized how useful Post Synchronization Dubbing is - it doesn't really matter if you forget a line or a sound effect during filming, because you can just add it in afterwards. It's actually a really versatile tool, and I'll definitely be using it in the future. 2) Music: For the Parallelism shot, we wanted to create an academic mood, and we also wanted to get rid of the diegetic sound (Francisco was being very loud!) , and so we decided to add music. We ended up going with a them...