Film Studies

  AO2: Sound used to create aesthetic effects Film aesthetics Sound (parallel and contrapuntal), talk about connotations. Creating aesthetics using cinematography, mise-en-scene and editing Lighting Camera angles Camera shots Continuity editing Non-continuity editing Meaning: Genre Narrative Representation Spectator preferred or oppositional reading

GOTG approaches arteurism Viewing conditions impacts the spectators experience Male Protagonist Genre & themes of Pride  Police brutality Homophobia Solidairty Marginalisation  I will explore the narrative structure of Pride and Guardians of the Galaxy (GOTG) with reference to the critical approaches of auteurism and genre.  The auteur theory states that the director has a specific style and has become a major critical approach to how films communicate to their spectators. 

Do now: A documentary is footage compiled together to investigate a chosen topic. It explores the realism of events that happened.  Documentary Film, television, radio or internet product using pictures and/or interviews with people involved in real events provide a factual report on a subject. Documentary= 35 mark question     - Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of element of film (15 marks)     - Applying knowledge and understanding of film elements through analysis                          and use of critical approach (20 marks) Debate the claims naturalism and realism and the formalist and structuralist conception of film narrative in relation to documentary. 40 minutes per 35 mark question Cutaways, Pictures, Captions, Old footage (cut aways), Bloopers, Interviews, Non-diegetic sound, Close-ups, Panning cameras, Static camera,  - Real locations - Real people - Na...

Stories we tell analysis Relations of Diane Polley and Michael Polley Affair between Diane Polley and Harry Gulkin Exploration of truth and how Sarah Polley approaches the truth in her vision Uses 8mm camera for cutaways Reliability of the documentary is questionable  Sarah starts the recounting of the candid interviews with a raw approach, where the audience don't know what words might be true. People question the documentary as she has nothing to gain by lying. "Different reactions to different events" Editing can knock the truth as the it turns the story into something completely different. Sarah's vision may differ to everyone elses. As time passes, truth matters less. The emotions and memories people leave behind are far more important.

35 marks Up to 5 levels 15 mark for AO1 (Film form and Film terminology)          -  Are you actually answering the question?     - narrative     - structure     - film techniques 20 marks for critical approach (debating)     - Context     - Respresentation of characters     - Arteurism  Genre      - how is society represented Arteurism      - Do either films have an  auteur stamp? Technology     - How does technology shape a viewer response     - Does technology have an impact on how we view characters     - Does it impact narrative Pride: Bulmer and Katz(1959) Uses and gratis factions: Audiences actively select media to use for their own benefits (as opposed tp being passively manipulated). They identified a range of different uses that offered specific pleasures (gratisfactions) - Education/ inform - Personal identif...

  Auteur: A director with a specific style. Common theme: Red Hitchcock always uses red as an auteur:     - Blood     - Murder     - Love Religious views Hitchcock attended a catholic school as a child, his films occasionally include religious iconography Hitchcock started making films in the silent era which allowed him to develop the importance of Cinema Pur (French term: means pure cinema) He spent time working in Germany and was influenced by German expressionism. The films were known for surrealism, psychological, warped style and expressionist set designs. (mise-en-scene and cinematography) He was influenced by the Soviet montage movement including the Kuleshov effect and Eisensteinien montages (Intellectual montages). Hitchcock cinematic style:     - Cinema Pur: Henri Chomette     - Meticulous design     - Perfectly balanced compositions     - Perfect editing     - Surrealism     ...

 Key scenes - The starvation scene in where The Tramp eats a boiled shoe with Big Jim Mckay. - The Tramps cabin-mate hallucinates and sees The Tramp as a huge chicken.  - Chaplins fantasized new years eve party where he waits for a girl who never turns up P E A L P E E Structure: POINT - Editing EXAMPLE - What is going on in the film EXPLAIN - Link the meaning for spectator Introduction: Gold Rush 1925 as the film is a silent film, Chaplin relies heavily on impressive visuals to create meanings Scene -  jim and the prspector are deprived of food as they are stuck in a winter storm. they resort to boiling and eating his leather shoe. Big Jim also imagines TLP as a giant chicken through delirium due to lack of food. 1989, Bordwell and Thompson -  'Continuity Editing relies upon matching screen direction, position, and temporal relations shot to shot...' Paragraph 1: P:  180 degree rule  - line of action through the centre of the action and the camer...

  Film are not like plays as plays are filmed from beginning to end but films arent filmed in continuity order. Continuity editing is the name given to the classical style of editing that is the standard language of cinema.  David Bordwell & Kristen Thompson - Continuity editing is a system of cutting to maintain continuous and clear narrative ac ton. It relies on matching screen direction, position and temporal relation from shot to shot. The key to continuity editing is that it flows always directing the spectators attention to where it needs to be without spectator noticing. It is supposes to be invisible. Continuity editing:      - 180 degree rule An imaginary line of axis drawn through the centre of the action The camera must stay on one side and should never cross the line This prevents subjects from switching sides of the screen, which could confuse the audience Faster editing in mo...