30 seconds of mise en scene from skins:

In this lesson we had to look at a 30 second clip from the first episode of skins, i thought that 30 seconds is hardly anything to think of and is not going to help to our exam but i thought wrong and there's actually lots of elements that you don't see within the sort timing of the clip.



It was a bit more easier because we only had to focus on one character so all the connections around his bedroom was not to hard to read if there is more character it makes life alot more harder. But also i'm a fan of this programme so i have some understanding about the series and the storyline of it.



Anyway we watched the first 30 seconds and found these elements and factor that we need for our exam questions (these are notes):

• Camera angles:


• Extreme close up zooming out from bed to end in a long shot


• When camera zoomed out it turns into a birds eyed view


• Close up of radio button being pushed to turn on, persons point of view.


• Pan fixed camera


• Colour quality is perfect not abstract effects at all, fine lens.

Mise en scene:

• Middle aged teenage boy, hair cut brown short and not messy.


• Comedy typed bed for the symbol of naked man or women but as boy in middle it could connotate that he could be bisexual - could lead to social problems and maybe to confident within himself.


• Floorboards, wooden and modern, today style of bedroom, typical teenage room, also not much item we can see in there - could be a university student?


• Boys eyes are wide open, bed sheet looks like he only just got in could of layed there all night perhaps?


• Room perfectly tidy, not a messy child and is well organized


• The room is not verisimilitude it's easy going.


• From the outside it looks peaceful but when looking at this blank expression from the boys face we can see verisimilitude conflict and leaves audience wanting to know the outcome for this.


• His way of expression aswel looks like he's in his in own and is looking forward so proxsemix devices have been used to show this form of action.


• Colour of room brown and light, yet again common outlook of room and bed is white, clear to see the mediaoca devices in the bed.

Sounds:

• Bell ringing throughout of the 30 seconds, start of day - maybe Sunday as people go to church that day - if weekend more had been going on so more idea of the dilemma which may be withheld in this character.


• No lines are spoken from any actors silent start, maybe director does not want to give and evidence away from the start.


• The alarm shows it that its morning and he boy usually wakes up to set weekly routeen, yet again we see more organisation.


• Alarm is digital - advance and not olden times - today's outlook


• Common annoying sound from alarm- again director keeps the character hidden away until moves on in the clip.

So looking at a simple 30 seconds of any kind of programme there are lots and lots of things to think about when you are analysing in the best possible detail as you can. Now i know what main attractions i need to think of when it comes down to my exam and makes life a lot more easier now and will have more confidence within myself to achieve a higher grade from learning this structure and revision.

Then after all the notes are taken down we needed to transfer them into a best form of description of an opening scene. Now i found this hard, as notes are easy to take down but with expressing them into a paragraph you need it to make scene, obviously the notes bite sizes your analysis down and now what to put, its just placing to make the best paragraph and also the vocabulary has to be more energetic in expressing and selling off the idea and also get you more marks, but this is what i came out with:

• The opening sequence shows various representations of age, through the use of camera angles, mise en scene, and sounds and narratives. The establishing shot is an extreme close up of an white teenage boys face. The lens of the camera zooms out to show a long shot of the boy to an birds eye view where we can see his duvet. On the duvet, it has a image of two nude people, one male and one female, this connotates that the boys sexuality could be bisexual as he is positioned in the middle of the bedspread. The expression on the boys face is anonymous and eyes are wide open which applies the term that everything looks verisimilitude but inside his head could be verisimilitude conflict in the inside of the character, this is the main key for the establishing shot that audience don't know what this boy is like on the inside, it expresses the key points of the mise en scene in the room from just the silent sound that has been used and the boy laying there. Also the room that the boys in is a modern and typical teenage layout, warm and light colours have been use to effect of a clam and lay back character and also it's tidy which connotates the character is organised and likes to keep tidy (this could be a link to hygiene aswel). The only sound that's used is bells being rung, this connotates it's start of day and could be a Sunday as bells connotates religion and Church.
  

The scene finishes with the point of view of the button being pressed from a digital alarm, this shows the start of the day.

With this on my blog i can now look back upon errors and correct the mistakes and has helped me a lot in confidence when my exam come up soon =).