Film Language

 Film Language

Film language is made up of four different aspects:

1.) Camera
Frame
-6 possible shots (extreme close up, close up, mid shot, medium long shot, long shot and extreme long shot).
Angle
- Birdseye, low, level, high, wormseye.
Movement
- Pan left/right.
- Tilt up/down.
- Tracking
- Static shot
- Zoom in and out
- Crane shot.

2.) Sound
- Music
- Contrapuntal (when the mustic doesn't go with the images, e.g. a childrens nusery rhyme in a horror film) and Parallel (when the music matches the images).
- Diegetic (all the stuff we hear when being filmed) and Non-Diegetic (all the stuff put on later during editing, e.g. sound effects).
- On Screen (can see what's making sound) and Off Screen (can't see what's making sound).
- Voiceover
- Dialogue (the way people speak).

3.) Mise en Scene
- Costume
- Lighting (low-key and high-key)
- Actors
- Make up
- Props
- Setting

4.) Editing
- Transition (how it cuts, a movement from one scene to another, e.g. straight cut, wipe/slide).
- Order of Narrative (is the order skipped, traditional or does it include flashbacks).
- Pace (how quickly things cut, e.g. action films would be fast paced.
- Special effects
- Graphic Matches (e.g. one door closing and another one opens. One image to another but the same object

 Examples of Analysis of Film Language...

The camera starts off in the eyes of the camera man, its the couples wedding and you can clearly see them posing at the camera. Then it quickly slides off to the eyes off Carl and Ellie, so you can only see the camera positioned at them. This had a medium long shot when it hit the transition. Later on the quick clip, you can see a tracking shot of them walking home newly married. In this clip you notice the couple stop off to lay on a grassy hill on many occasions, There's a low angle on the grass and the camera tilts up to look at the clouds. The couple gaze at the clouds a lot to see the different shapes. On day they climb up the hill to see a cloud shaped as a baby, this is a sign of them moving forward in their relationship. They use a pan shot from right to left to see the different rooms and sadly Ellie cant have children. Moving on with their lives, they set themselves a goal to go on holiday. There's a static shot of them walking past putting money into their holiday fund, the lighting shows the change of time and the outfits change to show the seasons go past.

The only sound in the whole clip is the non-diegetic music being edited onto the video. They haven't used any dialogue to set an effective mood, so when its sad, the music gets slower and quieter and when the scenes are happy, it's more upbeat. Having no music makes you focus on what's going on more intensively. At the beginning, when they're young its very happy and exciting and as they get older, the music gets slower but still cheerful.

Right at the start of the video, they're wearing the traditional religious wedding outfits which gives you a clear understanding of their relationship. throughout the clip, Carl, the main character, he struggles with putting his tie on and his wife Ellie would help him and she puts his tie on several occasion. This is important because it shows time has past and they're getting older because she begins to put it on slower as time goes by.

Props that are highlighted in UP are the jar for 'paradise falls' which is a money jar for their holiday goal. however this jar kept being smashed due to money problems and they never reach their ambition of going to 'paradise falls'.

The high key lighting suggests its a very happy film overall, due to it children audience, you wouldn't expect any scary scenes. however when there's a sad moment in the clip, where Ellie loses a baby, low key lighting is being introduced to set an emotional mood. The main setting of the film is the couple living their happy lives at home or on their hill watching the clouds. 

The overall editing of this clip has been used with straight cut to show time has passed quickly. However on the other hand, another editing feature that has been used is a graphic match, in the video you can see Carl look at a drawing of a house and then you see the real house after it.