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

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 Setting in film is the time or place in which the film takes places. In film a few key characteristics that are vital are, setting, theme, costume, hair, makeup, color, lighting, and genre. The characteristics that are most predominant to film producers are setting, genre and theme since the setting expresses the location of the film which also ties into the genre, which shows  what the film is based on and includes elements based on the set genre, and the theme of a film shows what the plot is about. Setting is a very important mise en scene element since is expresses where the film is taking place which lets audiences know what the story is going to be about based on its time and location.

The objective of the exercise is to analyze the elements of setting in a film. My group was assigned to create a powerpoint. While creating the powerpoint  we analyzed the elements of setting in the movie " National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985)". The movie is located in London and shows an American family getting into multiple car crashes and the victims are native British people. The scene shows the tone and mood of the British people as being nice and welcoming to the Americans even though they have crashed into their vehicle. The setting is in set in the 1980's and this is expressed by the characters clothing and the type of road in the scene, which is not present day concrete.

My media studies teacher assigned the class to get in pairs and create a powerpoint that defined the elements of setting in a scene from the movie, "National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985)". We had watch the video of the scene  then state its, place, geography, physical characteristics of the location, time period, time of day, values, mood, message, and genre. I worked with Juel C. during this assignment, he created the slides where he had to state the scene's, value, message, mood, and genre, while I did the slides of place, geography, physical characteristics of the location, time period, and time of day. While conducting research on this scene I learned how the elements of setting is important to understand what a film is based on.







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