Shania Media 2 - Mr Bush

1) State the genre you have chosen - horror or coming of age drama. The genre I have chosen for my preliminary exercise is horror. 2) Choose at least five films in your selected genre and watch the trailer and one scene from each film. Make bullet-point notes on everything you watch, commenting on camerawork, editing, sound and mise-en-scene. Insidious Mixture of colour and black and white which adds to the horror aspect suspense is created through non diegtetic music The use of dialogue and extended scenes - helps to establish the narrative (their son is possessed) The use of a child as the main character - depicts innocence and makes it ore creepy (children are often the victims/possessed characters in horror films) Concept - seeing dead people plays with the idea of the supernatural and being involved in something that is out of the ordinary. Get Out Official Trailer Jump scares - frightens the viewer and leaves them on edge througho

Media Magazine reading: Billie Jean, birth of an icon Go to our  Media Magazine archive  and read the case study on Billie Jean - birth of an icon (MM62 - page 20). Answer the following questions: 1) What was the budget for Billie Jean? How did this compare with later Michael Jackson videos? The budget was $50,000, which was 6 times less than 'Beat It', which went into production 5 weeks later with a budget of $300,000. Thriller was much bigger with $2mn. 2) Why was the video rejected by MTV? It didn't suit their 'middle America' audience, meaning because Michael Jackson was black. The president of the record label then threatened to take all their music videos off MTV, which afterwards MTV backed off and allowed the video to be played. 3) Applying Goodwin's theory of music video, how does Billie Jean reflect the genre characteristics of pop music video? The music video seems to have more of a film genre connection, as music videos were not common. It has a