Preliminary Exercise 4: Analyzing Setting for National Lampoon's European Vactaion

 Setting in a film is the time and place where a story is taking place. The key characteristics of a film are luminosity, movement, realism, and montage. The most predominant characteristics to a film producer is luminosity and montage, because in order to have a perfect or close to perfect shot, you need good lighting and you need to be able to edit certain parts of a shot in order to have a smooth scene. The least predominant characteristics to a film producer is movement and realism, because not every producer makes films out of realism or the concept of it, as well as the most important thing not being about movement. Setting is an important mise en scene element because it gives the scene and film a time and place of where the story is being placed in.

The objective of this exercise is to understand and recognize the different elements of setting. In this assignment, my partner and I created a PowerPoint. We will be analyzing a short movie that is about a family called the Lampoon's who took a vacation to Britain where they realize that the British people are so much nicer than Americans, and don't blame them for accidentally bumping into all of them with their cars. In the setting there were multiple components that established the representation, characters, tone, and genre of the film. For example, the genre being comedy is shown with how there are comedic elements incorporated in the film. As well as the representation of London by the setting of the scene.

The media text that is being created is a PowerPoint. It's supposed to engage with the audience as a analyzation of the short film and what the elements of setting are as they're represented in the short film. Some of the directions for this assignment was to analyze the short film for the elements of setting and to describe what they were. In this lesson I learned what the different elements of setting were and how they are incorporated in a film. In this assignment I worked with Michelle C., we evenly distributed the amount of parts amongst ourselves for us to complete this assignment.