Homework 12th September.

Select a five minute approx. clip of a T.v. drama from you tube and do a textured analysis using shot types and sound types but also mis-en-scène. Also include the video clip at the start of the post and images at relevant points through the analysis.

The selected t.v. drama I chose was an selected 2 minute and 45 second clip of the American t.v. show Buffy the Vampire slayer. This t.v. series is registered under the comedy - drama genre. The clip I chose was based the Fool for love clip.

Clip:



To begin my analysis of this Fool for love clip, I will proceed with my initial thoughts on the clip alone. The initial thoughts of this clip was that the emotion between the two different creatures e.g. Human and vampire went against the stereotypical as they bonded. This contrasts against the tension which the clip begins with when Spike approaches the emotional Buffy with a loaded gun from the bushes. By creating the clip to play with these scenes, creates the audiences emotions to change suddenly as their view and opinions constantly change.

In this clip, my focus is based upon the Class and Status of the two characters, but also the Relationship between the two characters. This will be studied and shown through the explanation of the four sections this reveals it in.

First Scene:

To begin the first scene, an Establishing shot of the house was used to show where the action would take place at. This shot stayed for a few seconds until it turned into a Master shot when the female Character Buffy leaves and sits upon the steps. While she approaches the step, the track movement was used to move parallel to the character shown. As she sits upon the step, she shows a lower status even though she comes from a middle class. The close up shot was then used to show the audience her emotion as this would create questions and thoughts between the audience. This would then be followed by a zoom out movement of the camera as it shows a medium close up shot. This gave the chance to use the a handheld camera movement to give the audience a sense of reality as they feel her emotion. To create more focus on the female character shown, the shallow depth focus was used to blur the background out of view.











The sound played during this first clip is the chime playing music. This sound was known to be a Non-diegetic sound due to the fact that it cannot be heard by the actor and is used only for the audience. By using non-diegetic sound the chimes will keep the depressive emotion going against the audience as they start to truly feel what the female character feels as she cries. Later during the first scene the last sound really heard was the faint crying. This sound was an diegetic synchronous sound as it was both heard on scene but also it related to the story as she shown an upset emotion.

The mise-en-scène of this scene shows that the female character is from the middle class status as she wears the basic fashion of clothing in that era but also due to the fact that she lives in a basic fashioned house from the interpretation of just the look of the front of the house itself. By using dark lighting effects on this scene and only keeping certian lights of the house inside turned on, the scene finally shows a night time scenery inwhich keeps the audience questioning on why the female character would dare enter the darkness.

Scene 2: