Notes on 28/01/11

What does reading a film mean:
- analyzing how images and sound are used to tell a story.
- understanding how codes, conventions and stylistic devices create viewer responses.
- consciously identifying our unconscious responses.

Cinema is a visual art form. Cinema is not literature. A film is not a novel.

















Edit:
- An edit is a break in the film where one shot ends and the next shot begins.
- The four common types of edit are:

• Cuts
• Dissolves
• Fades
• Wipes (occasionally)

Way of film for my film: Introduce the characters (close up) Introduce the context (pan out) To empathize with the character (looking down)



A scene:
- A scene is a collection of shots, arranged through editing, into a specific order. (usually 2 or 3 minutes)

• When reading film it is common to analyze individual scenes rather than specific shots
• A scene with two characters having a conversation would likely consist of fewer shots than a fast paced car chase
  

Go on blackboard and find The Shot Type.


FILM LANGUAGE:
elements used to elicit an emotional response in the audience

















Cinematography- The way the film is used eg a Dolley
Sound- Very important, helps the viewer see what is happening in a scene


MISE EN SCENE: put in scene
This is the combination of all the visual elements within the frame (frame: the physical boundary that contains what the audience sees)
PROPS- visual symbols that makes us see what is going on with the film and scene

Today, we learnt a lot about the actual shooting of a film and the way that the movie is edited it a specific way to what the director wants the viewer to feel. Filming has a lot to do with the emotions that the director wants to portray.