Theory of stardom

 In class we did a classwork on theory of stardom, this is the table we did 

This the work we have done in clas which shows the differenfce between REEL persona and REAL persona. Maybe this won't be as useful now because we are not doing the social media pages yet but when the time comes I think this theory would become helpful as it demonstrates the way celebrities act differently on the internet compared to real life. By then we can decide what type of persona our star has according to the genre. A problem I had with this is I kept on forgetting to add it to the blog hence I had to cram it all at night. Therefore a way to solve this was that in the future I needed a schedule to always remind myself .

Filming schedule

 This is the filming schedule for our music video done by me ( Bagas )

Date	Scene	Content	Location	Props
23/12/024	1-7	Morning routine	Bagus house	Clothing, Bag, phone, Camera etc.
10/01/2025	-	Happy scenes with female actor	Regents Secondary School	Food
11/01/2025	-	Basketball scene	Bagus house	Basketball
13/01/2025	-	Male actor depressed moments	Teras Ayung residence Pantai Mertasari	-

Classwork

 This is some of the classwork done to show how we have understood technical elements done by Bagus and Nicho

\CAMERA ANGLES

Long Shot	Medium Shot	Close Up
Extreme Long Shot	Cowboy Shot	Extreme Close Up
POV	High Angle	Dutch Angle
Over The Shoulder	Low Angle	Establishing Shot

Effects of each shot

Long Shot: Shows the full object alongside the setting and background

Extreme Long Shot: Shows the subject from a more extreme range, will give emphasis more to the setting of the whole movie.

Medium Shot: Allows the audience to see the characters body language, facial expressions and reactions.

Cowboy Shot: Cowboy shots create an effect that makes the character look cool and dominant.

Close Up: Enables the audience to focus on expressions and dialogues.

Extreme Close Up: Enables audience to feel real time emotion of the character

POV: To place the audience in the characters' shoes.

Over the Shoulder: It creates a new point of view that creates a spatial and connectional perspective of the audience and the character

High Angle: Makes subject look weaker and smaller.

Low Angle: Makes the subject look stronger and dominant.

Dutch Angle: Emphasizes confusion and disorientation due to the inconvenient angle.

Establishing shot: Introduces audience to setting of the movie. 

CAMERA MOVEMENT

These are some videos that helped us understand the aspects of filming

Ultimate Guide to Camera Angles: Every Camera Shot Explained [Shot List, Ep. 3]

Ultimate Guide to Camera Movement — Every Camera Movement Technique Explained [The Shot List Ep6]

Mis En Scene

Props	Set Design	Costume
Hair	Make Up	Colour
Performance	Lighting	Blocking
Focus	Weather	Environment

Here is a video that helped us understand mis en scene

What is Mise en Scene — How Directors Like Kubrick Master the Elements of Visual Storytelling

Other than camera angles and camera movements, there are other key elements to creating a suspenseful and meaningful scene. This includes the 3 types of songs diegetic, non-diegetic and trans-diegetic.  

Diegetic: Sound that the characters within the media text can hear. This adds a sense of realism and could reveal some information about the character inside the media and soon to the audience. 

Non-diegetic: This type of sound can only be heard by the audience instead of the characters. This is used to enhance the meaning of the audience to decode and create an emotional response in the audience. 

Trans-diegetic: Trans-diegetic is the type of sound that transitions from one to another, for example from a diegetic sound turning into a non-diegetic sound. A trans-diegetic sound usually helps reflect the character's inner state for example it may start with a diegetic sound at first to connect with the character’s feelings and soon be heard by the character which is revealed as the character’s internal feeling/experience. 

We were also given a video by our teacher in case we wanted to dive deeper into the topic which helped me a lot. As the upcoming projects which were a documentary and a music video needed these skills. 

( Insert this video to your blogs https://youtu.be/2vlwm4VyyTc )

After some more lessons, we learned that there were 3 types of non-diegetic sound.

	Description	Effect
Melodie	Positive and pleasing connotations	Enhances a positive scene. Create positive emotions in the audience
DIscordant	Harsh and unpleasant connotations	Enhance negative scenes. Create suspense, tension, and anxiety
Contrapuntal	Has an opposite tone to the on-screen visuals	Adds deeper meaning to scenes. Insight into the character’s thoughts. Maybe they seek pleasure in doing bad things.

These are some examples of all three types of non-diegetic sound. 

Melodic:

Insert this link in your blog (https://youtu.be/r1nBktuqKwk?si=lhwzFJJdh3a-Igpt)

Discordant: 

Insert this link in your blog (https://youtu.be/3YTIMGmZUr4?si=q_Gh_N1TGY_8nx7o)

Contrapuntal: 

Insert this link in your blog (https://youtu.be/P0EXHvbsnJ8?si=JBa8Ecsq2yEgICf2)

The fourth key element is the edit. The edit in a media text is crucial as it sets the tone and message and can deliver more impact to the audience. 

There are 2 types of editing which are long takes, and short takes each one having a uniqueness and drawbacks of its own. 

A long take is used to : 

• Build suspense

• Makes it feel slow for the audience.

• Extend the feelings of the scene

• Makes it more immersive

While a short take is used to:

• Increase the pace of the scenes 

• Makes it more exciting and high-energy

• Mostly used to show actions

• Focuses more on the details

These 2 videos helped me discover more things about the deeper understanding of editing in the media world.

https://youtu.be/h9AEYFYPYTM?si=Ld4P7wqL-rwagdbY (Deeper understanding of long takes)

https://youtu.be/OAH0MoAv2CI?si=ebTKXYxE-ilEa82l (Focuses more on the cuts and transitions)

Not only the duration of each scenes but editing can be classified as another 2 which are continuity editing and non-continuity editing. 

Examples:

Continuity:

• Straight cuts

• Eyeline match

• Shot/reverse shot

• Cutaway/insert

• Match cut

This video helped us understand the deeper level of continuity editing https://youtu.be/33eWqDZ6sRc?si=a_D1Bdcd5sJTM3yZ 

Non-continuity:

• Cross cut

• Flash back

• Flash forward

• Jump cut 

• Match cut. 

This is the youtube video I found that helped us learn the understanding of a discontinuity editing https://youtu.be/-d6Dp04NV0E?si=dqxmiMNjRene02DE

This classwork was one of the introduction processes towards media studies for me as it lists out alll the imporant sections such as different camera angles, sounds, edits and mis-en-scene. A way I have participated in helping doing this blogposts is by providing the sources of information to my teammates such as giving the youtube links and finding good information about the technical elements. Overall having it here now is a good way to recap all the things we have learnt. Therefore if we do ever forget some of the elements we could always refer back to this blogpost. A problem we had while doing this is that its very long and we have forgotten most of the terms within this work therefore it may take a long time to review again then typing it all down. Time management is very cruical at this point because we did this right before the deadline . In the future I would like to manage time better as posts like these needs to be started early so we won't have to cram everything in one night.