All Journalism & Mass Communication Study Notes/guides for students and teachers
Many times we hear in the media that a program or series was the leader in television prime time . But what does this term refer to? Today we are going to see what it is and some curiosities of Spanish prime time. What is it? It is considered the time slot in which the most people are connectedto television, and … Read more
To finish with the example of elements of characterization present in the Mad Men series , we are going to recover one of the features that we mentioned in the first article dedicated to this topic: the hidden past. The hidden past is one of the most interesting characteristics of a character. This hidden past can be: unknown to … Read more
In addition to the excellent setting and rigor of the clothing, Mad Men has stood out for the contrast of its characters . Since the 1940s, Hollywood has known how to maximize the contrast between couples: like Charlie and Rosie in The Queen of Africa (1951). It is a resource in the cinematographic narrative that gives dynamism in the story. Most of the time, … Read more
We mentioned in the previous article that one of the basic elements of characterization is clothing. Any audiovisual fiction product takes care of the wardrobe aspect of all its characters. It should be noted that clothing is identified with social status, with religious beliefs, with political ideology, with a profession , etc. Taking advantage of the tenth anniversary of … Read more
When a dramatic action is taking place in a story we find the term ‘plot’. Do you know its meaning? Do you want to be a script, film and TV expert? Well then you are interested in expanding your vocabulary with the following information. The plot is the central part of the dramatic action , in which all the characters are linked … Read more
In addition to the movement generated by the camera, in cinema the internal movement of the plane and the external movement generated by the montage are important . Thus, the dynamism of a scene is conditioned by the movements produced by the camera, by the movements of the elements-characters-in the frame, by the changes in the point of … Read more