AICE Media Studies

          The beginning part of the episode of Agent Carter utilizes editing, camera shots, sound, and mise-en-scène to create tension, develop the plot, and provide key insights the characters.                    The clip employs editing to create understanding. In the first scene, the audience is exposed to a scene that is transposed from another movie Captain America the First Avenger. The scene used is the last half of a scene that takes place towards the end of that movie. With this in mind, the editing plays a key role in ensuring that the audience understands what is taking place between the characters of Steve and Peggy. From the cutting back between the two characters, the audience immediately understands that they are having a conversation and from the last cut showing Peggy in a room by herself the audience realizes that Steve is dead leaving Peggy.  While this show is mainly int...

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       I chose to write about the movie "Spotlight".  I chose this movie primarily because I had not seen it before and I had heard it was a very good movie. "Spotlight" is a movie detailing the investigation and story of the spotlight team at the Boston Globe and their reporting of the systemic abuse of children and cover-ups by the Catholic Church.        There are multiple locations that movie takes place in, however, in primarily is set within the office of the Boston Globe,  the homes of the journalists, a Boston high school, and courthouses. These settings most key feature is their proximity. Throughout the movie, as the journalists slowly unwind the scandal and the cover-up they begin to realize how far-reaching the influence if the church and how widespread the issue of the abuse is. This is most evident when the high school right across from the Globe is revealed to have multiple cases of rape perpetrated by a pr...