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Opens with POV shot through veil. Positions audience with female figure.
Closed frames in van. Bars/mesh everywhere – connote entrapment.
Non-diegetic audio is culturally specific and ominous. Diegetic audio of van driving creates authenticity.
Armed guard in front and wardress next to smaller, vulnerable figure tucked into corner – we begin to question the need for this.
Hand-held camera jerks and bounces with movement of van. We are there, with the prisoner - verisimilitude.
ES – open frame of desert. Nothing. Parallel frame of road – couple with donkeys – primitive lifestyle (primitive, uncivilised ideology perhaps). Colour palette is desaturated, pale golden connoting barrenness and heat
Van arrives at Takhar Prison – guards on dominant right. Parallel frame as it approachescreates a sense of an inevitable journey.
Media studies – TV
Analysing the opening
Media Language Page 3
Watch the first 4 minutes of the text. Analyse this in terms of visual codes and media language. How do these elements combine to create meaning? Make notes below and then use the digital resource to compare your ideas with those suggested.