1 page film report, prompt attached along with material
last piece of material: https://www.icloud.com/attachment/?u=https%3A%2F%2…
When writing it be very specific like when a film technique is used say like who was in da scene the setting all dat my prof super want all dat
DO NOT INCLUCE A BLANK LINK IN BETWEEN PARAGRAPHS
DO NOT INCLUDE FOOTNOTES, ENDNOTES OR OTHER TYPES
FORMAT FILM AND BOOK TITLES IN ITALIC
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Ive included the textbook used for my class “The Film experience an introduction” Ill also include my notes from the class that highlight key terms that you can use to write the report
Lecture 1
– What is film studies
oDevoted to academic study of cinema
oWhat film makers are trying to say
oPosition of films within society
-Ideological film criticism
o Looking at attitudes being expressed
oSocial and cultural issues
Lecture 2
-Diegesis
oThe films internal universe (there’s our world than there is the movies world)
-Diegetic
oAll the things the characters say and do
oCharacter back stories
-Non-diegetic
oThings that don’t belong to the movies world, but are in our world ex. Opening and exiting credits title sequence names of crew, actors
-Narrator
oThe individual who often performs voice over
-Narration
oRefers to how the raw material of a story is shaped and organized into a structure
oRefers to the organization of scenes.
-Omniscient narration
oAssociated with unbiased view point
oTold from a detached impersonal point of view
-Restricted narration
oMain character point of view
-Unreliable narration
oA mode of storytelling that calls into question the truthfulness of the story being told
-Self-reflexivity
oA style of story telling
oPlaying with audience attention and cinematic illusion
oA way of addressing the status of film
-Direct address
oDirectly addressing the audience
oActros look directly at camera and address equipment’s, light , microphone
oEngage audience directly
Lecture 3
-What is cinematography
oThe perspective that film makers take on the content and material
-Framing
oMovie screen as a picture frame
oFraming is the art of how an image is organized
-Medium long shot
oUsually from thigh up showing character
-Medium shot
oPersonable shot
oCharacters framed from waist up
-Medium close-up
oShow characters from shoulders up
-Close-up
oShow characters head and face from top of head to chin
-Extreme close-up
oShowing off textures and details
Camera angels
-Level angle
oUsed most often
oStraight or neutral angle
-Low angel
oCan’t see the floor
oCharters are influential or authority figure
-Extreme low angle
oCamera is positioned at 90-degree angle, looking straight up at character
oMakes characters look unstable or bizarre
-High angle
oCamera is tilted down to look down at subject (looking down)
oMakes viewer feel that they are all seeing and powerful
-Extreme high angle
oAKA overhead shot or birds eye view shot
oCamera is 90 degress facing downwards.
oCamera looking straight down like extreme low angle
-Canted angle
oAKA oblique angle, Dutch angle
oCamera is slanted on a diagonal angle
Lecture 4
Camera movement guide
-Pan
oCamera moving left or to right on a tripod, tripod remain stationary
-Reframing
oMoving the frame from one position to another
-Tilt
oCamera rotates up and down, tripod remains stationary
-Tracking shots
oUtilized to track movement of a character
oWith mechanical conveyance
-Cinematic apparatus
oRefer to all of the tools used to create a film
oUse large array of different equipment and devices
-Handheld shot
oIndividual carrying camera with their hand
oAnything could happen
oWithout mechanical conveyance
-Locked-down shot
oStability and security with camera
-Zooms
o Adjusting camera lens
Focus terms
-Focal point
oObject that the cameras lens is focused on
-Depth of field
oVariable size
oCan create large or short depth of field around focal point
-Deep focus
oMeans there is a large depth of field
-Shallow focus
oMeans there is a short depth of field
-Rack focus
oRefocusing lens to switch from one object to a next, focal point changes
oUsed in order to comment on relationship between characters
Lecture 5 – Mise-en-scene
-What is Mise-en-scene
oMeans to play something on a stage
oRefers to how things are placed on a stage for audience to see
-Blocking
oRefers to positing and placement of actors through space
-Marks
oQues that tells actors specific positions actors need to stand on or pass by
oEx. Small piece of tape on stage that tells actors where to stand
Character positions:
-Back to camera
oSelf-explanatory
oKeeps character in mystery
oAssociated with characters that are closed off
-Three quarter turn
oCharacter still somewhat inaccessible
-Profile
oCharacter will be facing sideways
-Quarter turn
oEspecially used in dialogue/ conversation scenes
-Full front
oFull access to character face
oCharacter facing the lens
oFull front character does not speak to audience directly or acknowledge camera
Planes of action
-Foreground (front of stage)
-Midground (middle)
-Background (back)
-Over the shoulder shot
oUsually found is dialogue scene
-Point of view shot (POV)
oIs a shot that represents the first person perspective
-Masking
oAchieved by having a black screen super imposed
oEx. Character looking through telescope
Lecture 6
-Visual composition
oActors, props, aspect of set, light
-Points of visual interest
-Dominant contrast
oCan be achieved through focus technique
-Subsidiary contrast
oSomething in background popping out
oHeighten awareness of tragic nature of scene
-Multiple points of interest
oAll of elements/characters in frame are equally important
-Long take
oAny time a film holds frame on screen for 10 seconds or longer
-Territorial space
oThe amount of space characters occupy on screen can suggest for example how much more powerful they are
-Balanced composition
oWeighted equally
oCharacter and objects evenly spaced out on both sides on screen
-Unbalanced composition
oMore character/object on one side of screen
-Symmetry
oShi is symmetrical
oProduce an unnatural degree of balance
-Parallelism
oNot a mirror image
oIts more about repeating certain visual elements such as copy and paste
oSeries of copies
-Tight framing
oTends to generate feeling of confinement, claustrophobia
oFrame is tight and small
-Loose framing
oCharacters are spread out and have space to move
-Divided frame
oUsed to break a visual composition up into a series of smaller components
oCreates a frame within a frame
-Negative space
oRefers to the creation of deliberately unused space on frame
oMostly a solid colour ex .solid wall
