A taste of Standard: a close study of text – film April 11, 2008
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Some notes on what to look for in film texts
- What is film?
John Howard Lawson, an American playwright, screenwriter and critic described film thus: ” A film is an audio-visual conflict; it embodies time-space relationships; it proceeds from a premise, through a progression, to a climax or ultimate term of the action.”
Wikipedia offers: Motion pictures developed gradually from a carnival novelty to one of the most important tools of communication and entertainment, and mass media in the 20th century. Motion picture films have had a substantial impact on the arts, technology, and politics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_film
- The nature of film:
space and image including types of shots, high angle and low angle shots, subjective camera, framing the shot, the shot as a part of the whole, the moving shot, zooms and freezes, the sequence of shots, assembling the shots, colouring the image, and lighting the image
sound includes actual and commentative sound, synchronous and asynchronous sound, voice-over narration,
graphics include main titles, end credits, intertitles, subtitles, and other uses of the printed word
- Film genres, for example, narrative genres include the musical, the western, the crime film, film noir, screwball comedy, the horror film, science fiction film etc
- Subtext in film, for example associations with myth or icons, history, music and between films as in remakes
- Go to http://www.e-rudite.net/CloseStudy_film.htm for more.
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