David Gauntlett

David Gauntlett is Professor of Media and Communications at the School of Media, Arts and Design,
Gauntlett's critique of media 'effects' studies sparked controversy in 1995,and since then he has published a number of books and research on the role of popular media in people's lives. In the 90's he created the website Theory.org.uk. This website explores the complex connections between identities.
He argues that through making things online or offline, we make connections with other and increase our engagement with the world.
This is David Gauntletts new book, it out in April and it looks at how creativity can be fostered to tackle social problems and global issues. Making is Connecting is an inspired call to recognize the relationship between encouraging creativity and fostering an engaged citizenry. With rich discussions of studies in creativity, craft, happiness, social capital, digital culture, and more, the book lays important theoretical groundwork that creates a bridge between creativity in the past and in today's DIY culture.

David Gu

This is an xtranormal video that I created. I made a questionnaire and asked a few people, using the answers I made this film. Giving peoples opinion.

Mise-en-scene

Mise-en-scène is an expression used to describe the design aspects of a theater or film production, which essentially means "visual theme" or telling a story—both in visually artful ways through story boarding, cinematography and stage design and in poetically artful ways through direction. Mise-en-scène has been called films criticisms "grand undefined term."

Key aspects of Mise en scène

Décor

An important element of "putting in the scene" is décor, the objects contained in and the setting of a scene. Décor can be used to amplify character emotion or the dominant mood of a film.

Lighting

The intensity, direction, and quality of lighting have a profound effect on the way an image is perceived. Light (and shade) can emphasise texture, shape, distance, mood, time of day or night, season, glamour; it affects the way colors are rendered, both in terms of hue and depth, and can focus attention on particular elements of the composition.

Space

The representation of space affects the reading of a film. Depth, proximity, size and proportions of the places and objects in a film can be manipulated through camera placement and lenses, lighting, decor, effectively determining mood or relationships between elements in the story world.

Costume

Costume simply refers to the clothes that characters wear. Using certain colors or designs, costumes in narrative cinema is used to signify characters or to make clear distinctions between characters.

Acting

There is enormous historical and cultural variation in performance styles in the cinema. Early melodramatic styles, clearly indebted to the 19th century theater, gave way in Western cinema to a relatively naturalistic °style.

On the left we used a light coming from behind to give a mystreious look to the picture.

On this photo we used a red filter to create an effect of romance and love.

This is when we were using different lighting effects, we used lighting from underneath and filters. To create this affect of the shadow beind her i used photoshop and edited the two photos together.