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

 

A story's setting refers to the era and location in which it is told. Every story has a setting. Setting, set design, acting, costume, hair and makeup, color, composition, props, and lighting are some of the key elements in a film. I determined that costumes and lighting are its most important characteristics. In a film, costumes are essential since an actor's physical appearance greatly influences how the viewer perceives their personality. Lighting can draw attention to specific parts of a scene and intensify tension, drama, or suspense. Lighting also helps establish the mood of a scene. Setting plays a crucial role in mise en scene because it creates mood, reveals characters and conflicts, and hints at a story's theme. It can also help the audience to comprehend the way a character perceives their environment.

The media text being created is an online blog. In order to engage my audience, I used my blog to both educate and provide examples from the Lampoon European Vacation film clip, The instructions for the assignment were to create slides that analyzed the setting in Lampoon's European Vacation. I answered the ten prompts by stating both auditory and visual codes that I noticed in the video. In this lesson. I learned how to properly identify clues that may help me determine the purpose, message, and physical aspects of the characters in the film. I worked on the PowerPoint presentation alone. I found it beneficial to rewatch the YouTube clip multiple times to gain a better understanding of the denotative and connotative signs that I saw.