Meaning

Meaning is created by through the choice of camera shot but also by how a shot is constructed. Using the features of a shot: depth, framing and composition  a director can create a set meaning that the audience feels and dictates the way in which they respond.

 In our first media lesson we learnt all the key words you need to use when talking about different shots. We then put what we had learnt into our own picture. Me and Chloe were given this picture from shawshank redemption and our task was to recreate it as best we could. when reacting this shot there was a lot of things we had to take into consideration e.g. the meaning of the shot, the focus, framing and composition. We decided that we thought the meaning do the shot was a mixture of desperation, freedom and weakness, so we tried to create these meanings in our own picture. As you can see the focus of the image is on the boy, the background is soft and he is in sharp, this is the same in our picture. I think we captured the depth of the image quite well (depth of an image is the distance between the subject and the lense). In the original picture from shawshank redemption the depth is very deep as is the depth of our picture. The composition is very plain, in the shot there is just the boy and the floor, no other objects or props.