Mattingly "AI & Prompt Design: The Basics of Prompt Design"
Film study notes 1
1. Bad Good
Red+Black Religious Clothing
No face/Dehumanised blue+white
Names Earth colours
Nazi/Military Nature
Robot/Cyborg
Mechanical
Devil looking
Binary opposition
Blue – Red
White – Black
Purple + Green = poison/corrupt Horrible looking
Magic is oppositeto religion Crow are bad because they relate to
death.
Weapons can be seen as violent.
Patriotic colours can be seen as good in certain countries
Facial disfigurementare bad
How people sit/walk/stand portray how they are.
Picture task
Blue is seen as authority, split colours look undecided,has a weapon,
shadow covers half of face making him look disfigured, and clothing is
earthy.
Semiotics:
The study of signs , creating meaning from the things we observe.
2. Denotation: What it is. (A dictionary meaning)
Connotation: What something represents
Sound
Diegetic sound: This is sound belonging to the story world of the film
E.g. doors, coughing
Non-diegetic sound: This is sound from outside the story world of
the film E.g. Background music
Diegetic Non-Diegetic
Dialogue Soundtrack
Sound effect Orchestral sound effect:
Ambient sound -Band of a drum
Music -Violin strings
(That the character is listening to) (To build tension)
Inonography; the aspects of a product we expectto be in that genre.
Stereotypes
MEN WOMAN
COSUME Smart, Dark navy
(authority)
Sexual
DIALOGUE Intellectual Sexual
PROPS None Red shoes
LIGHTING A little darker/blue Brighter/yellow
CAMERA WORK Low angle, shows
power
High angle
EDITING Fast paced Slow when she’s
thinking
MUSIC Intense Slow/quizzical
COLOUR Black White, red