Film Language

In lesson today we learnt about different film language and how is used in order to help portray across the narration. The four types of language which we have learnt about are:

• Camera: For this we look at the frames that have been shot, the angle at which it has been shot at and the movement of the shots shown.
• Editing: When looking at the editing we concentrate on this acronym:

Transitions, so how well it moves between shots and frames.
Order of the narrative, which is how time is shown throughout, whether time is passing and whether it is in order of the characters life.
Pace in which we decide how quickly the cuts are in succession of each other (e.g. an action film will have faster and more cuts than a romantic one).
Special effects, so we look at whether any special effects have been edited into the film (e.g. editing in animals that don't exist in reality).

• Sound: Then we look at what sound has been used and chosen. So you concentrate on the dialogue, where we analyse what and how the characters say things. We also look at what music is being played in the background and whether it is parallel or contrapuntal to the context of the scene. The last part of sound that we focus on is if they are using diegetic sound (the sound taken in during filming) or non-diegetic sound (the sound added onto the clip during editing).

After being taught about the various types of film language, we then took the opening to the film UP and looked out for these specific types of language.





Throughout this clip of the film the same piece of music plays in the background the whole time, however to portray across the emotions during each part of the clip the speed/ mood of the music changes, the sound is parallel to the emotion shown by the characters. This variation in the tone of the music is vital to the audience watching because there is no dialogue, so the audience has to receive the emotion of the scene through the music rather than speech. So the happier the music seems, the happier the characters are.

During the animation they show the time passing by the actions that they are completing, so they complete the stereotypical actions you'd expect a couple to go through. (E.g. marriage and then moving into a house together etc.). It is further shown through when only the ties are shown, these continually changing display the days continually changing and going past. Also another way the producers showed time passing is that the characters slowly older so by the end of the clip they are elderly.

Finally due to the clip being an animation the producers would have wanted to make the clip look at realistic as possible for an animation. To do this they have created natural and high lighting on the characters so that it looks more like they are in reality.