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A General Movie IntroSlide2
Film LanguageGeneral IntroThe NarrativeMis
è
en SceneCinematographyMovie Types/GenreEditingSound
Film History
Beginnings/Early Film
German Expressionism
Soviet Montage
French Avant-Garde
Hollywood’s Golden Age
Italian NeorealismSlide3
What is a movie?
An art form that employs
a narrative- well, almost always Slide4
Editing makes it a unique art form:can control how
the viewer sees
a storySlide5
Audiences absorb movie meaning intuitively and instantly
intuitive
example: a low- angle shot…Slide6
A good film gets rid of distractions
producing a highly manipulated & artificial
reality ex: cutting in on
action Slide7
Movies contain implicit and explicit meaningsSlide8
Explicit:
what the
film is about Implicit:
what is the movie trying to say? what does it mean? an overall message or point?Slide9
Viewer Expectations…
The basic movie structure:
a clearly motivated protagonistpursues a
goalobstacles a clear resolutionyour experience of a movie is affected by how a particular film tells this storySlide10
Formal film analysis: analytical approach mostly concerned with film form…
or
the means in which the narrative is expressedDissecting/understanding cinematography, sound, composition, design,
mise-en-scene, performance and editing = reading a filmSlide11
It’s possible to read too much meaning…
but know that filmmakers exploit
every tool at their disposal … therefore,
everything is there for a reasonSlide12
JUNO
*Slide13
Principles of Film FormSlide14
Film Form & Content
Remember, very little,
if anything is left to chancea
movie isexceptionallyorganized &deliberately assembledSlide15
Film content: - the
subject of a
movie - what it’s aboutSlide16
Film Form: the
means by which the subject
of the movie is expressed and experienceddoesn’t
just let us see the subject, lets us see it in a particular waythe tools and techniques that a filmmaker uses to convey meaning and moodSlide17
Film Form: the
means by which the subject
of the movie is expressed and experienceddoesn’t
just let us see the subject, lets us see it in a particular waythe tools and techniques that a filmmaker uses to convey meaning and moodSlide18
Works of art need both: content and formSlide19Film Form and
ExpectationsSlide20
Audiences will form impressions quickly, sometimes opening creditsin
Hollywood, producers and screen writers assume the audience will decide if they like/dislike a movie in the first
10 minutesSlide21
Audiences expect that most movies start with a “normal” world
- that
is altered by a particular
incident (the inciting incident) - compelling/forcing the protagonist to pursue a goalSlide22
The film’s narrative structure is written around the viewer’s desire to learn the answers.
will
Dorothy get back to Kansas?will
Frodo destroy the ring?examplesSlide23
This desire stresses the
importance of the opening
scene.(
American Beauty ; Requiem; Babel; Shining)Slide24Fundamentals of Film
FormSlide25
Movies depend on light.Light can be
manipulated to create mood, reveal character, and convey meaning
(Schindler’s List
Blade Runner Mad Max)Movies provide an illusion of movement.Slide26
Movies manipulate space and time in unique ways.can move seamlessly from one space to another or make space move or fragment time in many ways (
The Matrix
)the camera is always selecting and manipulating what is seen on the screenSlide27
continuous record of action occurring in different locations - an illusion no other art form can convey as effectively (Godfather
)
can rearrange time: Citizen Kane, Atonement, Memento, Pulp FictionSlide28Realism and
Antirealismnot
every film strives to be “realistic
”…but nearly all films attempt to immerse us in a world that is
depicted convincinglySlide29
Verisimilitude:a convincing appearance of truth.
movies achieve verisimilitude
when they convince you that the things on the screen (people, places
…), no matter how fantastic or anti-realistic they are, are realSlide30
Cinematic/film language:- accepted systems, methods, or
conventions that movies
communicate with the viewerReferring to the ‘text of a movie’or ‘reading a particular shot/scene’ means to apply the understanding of cinematic language
Film Language
The Narrative
Mis
è
en
Scene
Cinematography
Movie Types/Genre
Editing
Sound