This document discusses techniques for positioning audiences through camerawork in fictional films. It provides examples from the films Dracula and E.T., analyzing how different camera shots and angles are used to make audiences feel certain ways about characters. The document also discusses other cinematic techniques like mise-en-scene, sound design, and symbolic codes that can enhance character presentations and audience positioning. Students are given tasks to identify these techniques in scenes and explain their effects.

1. AUDIENCE
POSITIONING =
CAMERAWORK

5. • What is happening in the image right now?
• What happened just before the image was taken?
• What happened before that?
• What is going to happen next?
QUESTIONS

6. UNIT 10: FICTIONAL FILM
PRODUCTION
• Assignment 1: Analysis of two film sequences in a chosen
genre
• Assignment 2: Preparing materials for a short fictional film
• Assignment 3: Editing a short film

7. OBJECTIVES
• To know a range of camera shots and angles
• To be able to identify them in a moving image text
• To be able to explain the reasons that have been used
• To evaluate audience response to the text
construction

8. FILM LANGUAGE
• Technical
Codes
• Symbolic Codes
• Written Codes

9. FILM LANGUAGE
• Cinematography
• Editing
• Sound
• Mise-en-scene

10. STARTER
• On your board write words that come to mind when you think
about
DRACULAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpluQYUizrQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb3O46ZEJmI

11. AUDIENCE POSITIONING
• Following your viewing of the scene how do you feel
about him now?
• Do you feel differently?
• How were you positioned?
• How did the director present Dracula?

12. AUDIENCE POSITIONING
• Whose story are you
interested in?
• The Turks
• Dracula
• Elizabeta
• The Priests

13. AUDIENCE POSITIONING
•The way the film maker wants you to feel
about the characters in a film
•Film makers use symbolic and technical
codes to make you feel a certain way about
about a character

14. ALIENS

15. E.T.
• How do you feel about
E.T.?
• How do you feel about
the humans?
• How did Spielberg
position you?

16. GROUP TASK
• Identify a range of camera shots, angles, and movements that
have been used in this opening sequence
• Explain how they guide the audience to feel a certain way
about the characters in the scene
• EXT: How did the sounds or mise-en-scene enhance the
meaning created?

17. WRITTEN TASK
• How has camerawork been used to position the audience in
the opening scene from E.T.?
• Provide at least 8 detailed examples
• (denotation – connotation)
• EXT: Provide 3 examples of symbolic codes that enhanced
character presentations.
• CHALLENGE: What sounds were used to further support the
presentation of characters?

18. P.E.E. PARAGRAPHS
•POINT
•EVIDENCE
•EXPLANATION

19. EXAMPLE
• In the opening scene of the film E.T. the audience are
positioned to feel sympathetic towards the alien.
Camerawork is used to make the audience engage with E.T.
as the hero. For example, a close up shot of E.T. picking up
some shrubbery while ignoring the rabbit connotes that he
is gentle and kind. Aliens are typically represented as
invaders and dangerous, but here the film maker is
emphasising that E.T. is not something to be feared. Also,
we are seeing the world from E.T.’s perspective which helps
us to engage with his character and his experience of the
world.
• Another example is a P.O.V. shot showing…