Mariella Goodman's Blog

  We learned about foley sounds, so I was assigned a project to create foley sounds for a clip from Tom and Jerry. Here's the chart I used to plan the sounds I recreated: 1:46 Sound of Tom Using the Cue Chalk on Jerry: :35 Sound of Pool Balls from Jerry’s perspective in his C ubb y Hole: 1:40 Sound of Tom Hitting the Stacked Pool Balls One by One : 2:05 Sound of Fire   0:46 Sound of Jerry being Knocked Between Two Pool Balls and then Stretched

     I watched season 2, episode 2 of Black Mirror, called “Wh ite Bear.” I will be discussing the various elements of camera angles, shots, movement, and composition. This is a dystopi an series with elements of drama and horror.       In the opening shot, we see a close-up of Victoria, which shows us her state of mind. We can see that she’s very disoriented and in poor health, evidenced by her squinted, glassy eyes, pale face, eye bags, and chapped lips . She seems not to know what’s going on, which helps introduce the main conflict of a character having no memory and working to figure out what’s going on. This whole scene is a series of close-ups, from a close-up of her face to a bandage on her hand, to a strange symbol on a TV, to pills on the floor, which all a dd up as the character slowly comes to and analyzes her surroundings , building the context of the story.       Random movement is used throughout as Victoria attem...