A2 Media Studies Introduction
Hello, I'm Megan and I've just started my second year of Media Studies, in which I will be creating a short film in which I will also produce two ancillaries to accompany it. In my first lesson I have watched a series of different short films that were made by either Disney animators, aspiring filmmakers that have went on to be very successful, and short films that have been made by past students. I have chosen 3 short films of the several I have watched, as I feel as they were very good in narrative, micro techniques, and execution. Disney Animation: I like this animation due to it being all in black and white, hence you forget about stylistic choices of the piece, but more about the narrative of the story. There is also no dialogue in this short film, hence micro techniques have to be used efficiently to portray the story easily to the audience so they can understand what is going on. For example, the establishing shot shows a man in the left third o...