Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Dominant Reading

 In this blog it contains the dominant reading of our movie opening, we did this blog together as a team 


List 

Our intended 

Dominant Reading

How we will achieve this with technical elements

Individuals 

Cassie 














Mom








Kidnapper 

Cassie: A rebellious child who doesn’t listen to her mother’s advice to not attend a party. She rushes to the party.










Mom: A worried, angry and strict mother.







Kidnappers: an unknown baddie

Cassie: 

Mise-en-scene: Short outfits, make up done, styled hair


Sound: talks angrily, party music, 


Camera: Close up to the child fighting her mom’s grip.


Edit: Jump cut to show she's in a hurry.




Mom: 

Mise-en-scene: modest outfit, glasses, “text me when you get home”


Sound: Raising her voice, formal language


Camera: Close up to the child fighting her daughter’s grip.


Edit:


Kidnapper:

Mise-en-scene: Dark alley

Sound: No talking, voice is hidden.


Camera: shows only half of the kidnapper’s body.


Sound: No dialogue to maintain anonymity.  


Edit:




Social group

Teenagers

Teenager: They are shown in the party scene where they are all having fun, talking freely with each other 

Teenagers:
Mise-en-scene: party outfits, smiling and enjoying themselves, teenagers room


Sound: Joyful laughters, party music


Camera: medium shot of people interacting with each other, close up of a hand applying makeup. 


Edit:

Places

House







Parking lot/car

House: Shows the teenagers room being all gloomy and dark which conforms to what a typical teenage room would look like


Parking lot / car: shows an isolated, dark area which is out in public. 

House: 

Mise-en-scene: Teenagers room, laptop, make up bag, basic and neutral, dark as its night time :)


Sound: Music playing from laptop: teenagers playlists


Camera: Close up to teenager’s belongings (wall with polaroids)


Edit: 


Parking lot/car:

Mise-en-scene: Dark and isolated, Teenagers own car, 


Sound: Diegetic sound of traffic, car opening it up, 


Camera: Establishing shot, shows Cassie has arrived at the party


Edit:


Events

Party

Kidnapping and drugging

argument

Party: Teenagers gathering at a party to have some fun!


Kidnapping and Drugging: The party’s dark turn, and nobody even notices



Party: 

Mise-en-scene: Short outfits, led lights, drinking cups,


Sound: Music playing, pouring of drinks, 


Camera: medium shot of people interacting with each other, close up of facial expression


Edit: ?


Kidnapping and Drugging: 

Mise-en-scene: Adding powder to the drink, unknown man dragging the girl out of the car


Sound: Dragging sound of the feet on the cement, party music distracts people from the drugging, 


Camera: Close up to adding the “powder” then cuts to people being none the wiser,


Edit: ?


Overall Message

Who kidnapped the girl? Why did he kidnap the girl? Will the mother be able to get her back? What is the kidnapper’s motive? 


Listen to your mother guys :)


How are these similar or different from your Statement of Intent?

Similar: We stuck to the idea in our statement of intent, where the main idea is more or less the same; a

girl gets kidnapped. We also stuck to the characters mise-en-scene to represent them which is the short

outfits and the mother look.

The mise-en-scene we planned to apply to our characters were also similar, specifically the mother and the

teenager’s outfits and props.


Different: We didn’t stick to our idea on using social media and trends that we thought would be relatable

and appealing to a teenage audience. However, we may add some subtle shots alluding to it (such as the

phone recording from instagram of the dancing) as social media is undoubtedly a big part of teenager’s

lives, and we want to accurately represent them in our movie opening.


Self Reflection: This dominant reading help us to be more in depth and focus on what kind of audience that we want

to focus on. But with this dominant reading in my opinion it did not help in the editing part because our edits that we

use in our project is decided during the editing process. Because we put the edit such as cut, fast cut and many more

based on whether it will match the current scene or not. But overall this dominant reading was very helpful.

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