AICE Media Studies

In the extract of Agent Carter , the eponymous character is a member of an intelligence agency known as the Strategic Scientific Reserve. Throughout the course of the short film, Agent Peggy Carter is shown to face sexism and workplace discrimination indicative of the period of the film, which is set in the 1940s. The 5-minute extract uses various elements of cinema like editing, camera angles, and mise-en-scene to create meaning for the audience. The opening shot utilizes editing and sound to imply to the viewers that the action happening is a flashback, as the self-sacrifice of Captain America is described, with emotional music indicating that the event was in some way important to the main character. Within the context of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this flashback sequence provides context for the one-shot and places it chronologically after the events of Captain America: The First Avenger,  and allows for viewers to understand what is happening even without any prior knowled...

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...