In case you didn't guess from the title, this post is for film studies students. Film studies uses slightly different language to media studies, so unless you also study film studies, I would recommend skipping this post!
Following your mock exam results, the most common piece of feedback given out was that you either
1 - used the wrong element of MES in the wrong section. So costume is MES, but performance is not. It's very picky but this is how you're marked!
2 - you just didn't include enough reference to micro elements full stop!
This task will help you address this. After this session, you will have a definitive selection of micro elements to use no matter what question come up
1 - Select one scene from L'Age d'Or, approximately one minute long
It helps if you select a scene that is relatively 'straightforward', with not much cross cutting. However, it can and should be argued that cross cutting is an essential editing technique!
2 - Analyse the scene under the following headings and prompts:
- Mise en scene (lighting, colour, props, costume, set design, setting etc)
- Performance (acting style, naturalistic, proxemics, gesticulation, facial expression etc)
- Cinematography (shot type, camera angle, camera movement etc)
- Sound (diegesis, contrapuntal, naturalistic, soundtrack, score etc)
- Editing (cross cutting, jump cut, rapid fire, match on action, dissolve etc)