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

    The setting in a film is the time and place in which the film is taking place. The main characteristics in a film are  luminosity, movement, realism, and montage. Film are created by film makers  and they need certain characteristics like communication to help direct. The film crew leadership skills fall into the same category which is artistic talent and creativity  to make the movie good but some characteristics doesn't matter as much. Setting is an important mise en scene element because it helps to set the films mood and sometimes suggesting a character's state of mind. 

For this assignment we had to search up a movie and use the setting. The movie I choose was Incantation its a movie about a small family who got cursed while the mother was pregnant. In the movie the parents went to visit "family" of the father to perform a ceremony but they ended up getting cursed. On the way  back home the dead ended up dying in an car accident and the mother was  injured but not badly. The mother ended up being haunted by the sprit but she did want the curse to transfer to her daughter  she ended up putting her in foster care. Once the mother felt like the spirit wasn't following her anymore she brought the daughter back home and recorded the experience. Once the daughter came back home the spirts/ curse started acting up again and the daughter could see it. So to solve this they mother put the daughter back in foster care and killed herself to stop it from happening ever again.

The media text that was created is film, it was engaging to the audience because created a lot of plot twists, there are very unexpected scenes and more.We were told to make a power point sandpit settings from the the movie you choose and the definition of the setting . What I learned from the assignment is that each setting stands for something else important now this assignment can be done by your self or with a partner and I did this with a parter Brooke N. and Bryanna B we each took a section and a strategy is to pick a movie you know well.