Preliminary Exercise 4: Analyzing Setting for National Lampoon's European Vacation PowerPoint Presentation

       Setting in a film is the time and/or place that the narrative occurs in. The key characteristics of a film are place, geography, time period, time of day, physical characteristics of location, culture/moral values, social and economics values, mood of scene, message of scene, and genre of film. The characteristics I established as the most predominant are the place, time period, and genre of film. Without these characteristics the film won't exist. The characteristic I established as the least significant is social and economic values. This just seems less important than the other characteristics, but it could really depend on the film, and it doesn't matter what film it is all characteristics are still important. The setting is an important mise en scene element because it says where the film takes places. All films have a setting because it's impossible to not have a setting in film.

      The objective of the exercise is to do a thorough investigation of a subject of analysis in order to reveal a new understanding about the research problem. In doing so, it what is already known from previous studies. The media product my group and I will be creating is a horror movie.

       The media text being created is a scene from a film. It's supposed to get the audience to want to watch more of the film. We had to do a thorough investigation of a subject of analysis by analyzing the setting of the scene in the film. I learned about culture/moral values, social and economics values, and message of scene. I didn't know they were that important. I worked with Sage W. We each did five questions and read each other answers over.