The document provides key terms related to film techniques like camera angles, lighting, editing, and sound that can be used to analyze how certain representations are constructed in video content. It also gives sentence starters focused on discussing how different elements signify or reinforce stereotypes related to issues like gender, ideology, and patriarchy.
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1. Key Words
Representation
High Key Lighting
Low Key Lighting
Diegetic Sound
Non-Diegetic
Sound
Camera Angle
Camera Movement
Camera Frame
Close-Up
Mid-Shot
Long Shot
Wide Shot
Tracking
Pan
Tilt
Point of View
Over the
Shoulder Shot
High Angle
Low Angle
Ideology
Stereotype
Patriarchy
Performance
Narrative
Parody
Chroma Key
Multi-Screen
Lip Sync
Cutting to the Beat
Editing
Transition
Dip to White
Dip to Black
Cross Dissolve
Cut
Connotes
Signifies
Male Gaze
Voyeurism
Juxtaposition
SENTENCE STARTERS
Point
• The mise-en-scene in this video represents women as being…
• The camerawork constructs the representation…
• The representation that is constructed through use of sound is that of…
• In this video women are clearly represented as…. And this is portrayed through the editing..
Evidence
• In the video, we can see/hear…
• This is evident in the video through the use of…
• We can find evidence of this in the video, for example…
• This can also been seen by the fact that…
• When the artist…
• For example, in the video there is…
• This illustrated through the use of…
Explain
• This signifies / connotes / signifies…
• This constructs this representation because…
• The reason this is so significant is because it suggests…
• This communicates to the audience the message that…
• Audiences would/may interpret this as…
• This reinforces the stereotype…
• This subverts the stereotype…
• This is supported by the ideology that… which derives from…
• This links to the theory of….
• This is supported by the theory of… which suggests…
A/B Aimers:
• Consider audience reactions –
how would they interpret it?
• Consider whether this
reinforces or subverts the
stereotype? If it subverts, why?
A* Aimers
• Discuss the deeper historical
context
(Feminism/sexism/patriarchy)
• Bring in the theory of the male
gaze where appropriate.