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WWW: various shots used for the video entertaining and the shots were very clear accurately labelled shots and lots of shots were shown, shows clear understanding  of topic there were lots of shots and camera movement, the music fitted "noice" great filming I wonder who did that range of shots were accurate, music went well with the video good music, good shots and good attempt at focus pull good and accurate s hots, well matched to the music great song choice, a wide variety of shots that were correctly used effective use of shots  throughout the video, matched well to the music. Used a wide variety of shots EBI: The focus pull could have been better but overall the video was really good Some of the shots were repeated (I think) Use better text I didn't like it Inclusion of Saira Mr Halsey: Very opening scene- surely a medium close up? Generally this is well-shot with some good camera movement in particular(the handheld is very smoot...
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Deutschland 83: case study blog tasks

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Reviews and features Read the following reviews and features on  Deutschland 83 : The Guardian - Your next box set: Deutschland 83 Daily Telegraph review The Guardian - Deutschland 83 Pity the Germans don't like it 1) What positive aspects of  Deutschland 83  are highlighted in the reviews? The period drama included a  lot of 80's culture that was very well received by the British viewers. For exampl, the music was very nostalgic, the costumes and the props (the walkman). 2) What criticisms are made of the show? ' By focusing the story around Martin Rauch, a young East German border guard going undercover in the west, it doesn’t just make the viewer empathise with a Stasi agent on a human level – in the way The Lives of Others did – it makes us engage with the socialist regime’s worldview, in which a military exercise in West Germany poses a potentially   existential threat . Yet as if to make up for such a radical premise, it then backtracks into stereotype...
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Cinematography Blog Tasks

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The opening 45 seconds of 'Marcella', the 2016 ITV drama, begins by fading in from black, followed by a medium shot in which the main character emerges into. This immediately confuses the audience as we don't see her face  but we can tel by the lighting and music that the character is distressed. We get a sight of her bleeding temple which mirrors the effect of the lighting to create an ominous and mysterious image. The next camera shot is a compromised long shot, as she is crouched (from what we can see from behind the bloody glass) which makes the audience feel unsure and uncertain of whats to come, much like the character we see. Also, because it's handheld we are given a sense of horror, as if it is someone watching her. We are then given a close up tilt downwards of various parts of her body that are strained with blood and bruised-this all alludes t a conclusion that she has either hurt someone or been hurt. The medium shot from behind the glass is repeated as ...
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