Media Studies

TO WHAT EXTENT DO YOU AGREE WITH BERGER THAT : “A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself. Whilst she is walking across a room or whilst she is weeping at the death of her father, she can scarcely avoid envisaging herself walking or weeping. From earliest childhood she has been taught and persuaded to survey herself continually. And so she comes to consider the surveyor and the surveyed within her as the two constituent yet always distinct elements of her identity as a woman. She has to survey everything she is and everything she does because how she appears to men, is of crucial importance for what is normally thought of as the success of her life. Her own sense of being in herself is supplanted by a sense of being appreciated as herself by another.... One might simplify this by saying: men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between ...

Film Techniques: angles and shots PAN It is used to track movement along a horizontal surface capturing the location without needing to have a wide angle lens.  Panning creates the feeling of motion and speed without blurring the image to establish a scene. This type of camera movement can make the audience feel more involved with the film. CRAB SHOT Allows the audience to follow the movement of the character or object at a constant distance from the action. EXTREME CLOSE-UP This is used to focus on an individual character alone to focus on their facial expressions in the moment of the situation of the scene. The audience can get a closer interpretation of the character's feelings which is trying to be conveyed. TRACK Where the camera moves alongside with an object or person. CRANE UP The camera is on a platform attached to the mechanical arm which allows the camera to move around in any direction as well as up and down to various heig...