Film Studies

 Film form: - Mise-en-scene - Cinematography - Editing - Performance - Sound Gold rush: - Static cameras as cameras were huge and heavy - Extreme long shots were made using miniature models - Close ups for intimate scenes (bread dancing scene)          Used to exaggerate emotions -Ignored by society because he is poor and cant afford new and expensive clothes and wears a bag on his foot. - Jack wears a uniform to convey toughness and is very tall. - Proxemics between Tramp and Jack shows the distance between the low class and high class people. Vertigo: - Dolly zoon connotes confusion - Scotty's nightmare sequence looks unnerving as it is composed in the center with lines all pointing to his head - Green is conveyed with madeilline. Judy is blacked out as it shows that maddeleine is the only one that Scotty cares about. - Montage is put together to convey different meanings such as everything Scotty is worrying about - Red= lust, love, passion. When Scotty ...

Key theme throughout all 3 films is conflict. Film form Cinematography Mise-en-scne Camera work     - Shot types     - Movements     - Angles Cinematic technique of freezing to create dramatic effect Sound     Realism from diegetic sound     After the bombing, the director wanted you to feel sorry for Algerians by using non-diegetic sound. The film is new-real style as it shows the events after the bombing and the rioting. Battle of Algiers     The films is about political and social struggles. Saadi Yacef was the Algerian revolutionary leader who fought for his countries liberation from French colonial rule. French were known for not being kind to Algerians. Saadi also helped Gillo to create the 'Battle of Algiers'. Yacef starred as the revolutionary character. The film explores anti-colonial struggles from freedom fighters as Algeria did not want to be controlled by Colonized government. Algerian people are controlled by Fren...

Naturalism (Realism): - Its focus is on everyday aspects of life that are are mundane, boring or unspectacular. - Shots are more objective - Camera usually reflects human behaviour and movements by being placed at eye-level - Shots are often static on a tripod or with little movement - Lighting and composition feels open and random without added flair - Locations are usually real  - Focus of editing is on continuity - Music and audio is diegetic (coming from the story world) - Realism is a fundamental approach to filmmaking Italian Neo-realism:         No easy moral judgements         Not easily plotted         Documentary visual style         Exterior locations         Natural lighting         Conversational speech         Constructed to create a truth Formalism: - Considered classic Hollywood style. - Crea...

  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.