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The Art of Watching Films
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- 1What is film?Turbulent marriage between business and art.
Unique art :
Visual arts - line, form, mass, volume, texture
Painting & Photography - light and shadow
Sculpture - 3d space
Pantomime - moving images, rhythm
Drama - visual and verbal
Novel - expands compresses time and space
BUT FREE AND CONSTANT MOTION. - 2HeistDavid Mamet, 2001. surveillance tape : Form! Form has been deliberately manipulated by director to shape and influence the viewer's experience of its content
- 3FormLook, clothing, set design, blocking, acting, camera movement, editing of shots, accompanying music
- 4ExpectationsEnjoyed previous work, screenwriter, director, actors or publicity, ads, friends, reviews, techniques.
Color schemes, sounds, length of shots, movement of camera, heighten or confuse our expectations. ESTABLISH PATTERNS. - 5PatternsPatterns and progressions that meet or contradict our expectations in interesting ways.
Parallel editing, narrative patterns (familiar or introduces us to unfamiliar), non narrative patterns (familiar image or sound effect) - 6General principals of film form-Movies manipulate space and time in unique ways (lens and the eye : perception of cinematic space, camera lens more selective, frames)
- Movies depend on light (augment, complicate or contradict other elements of shot, changes the way we see things)
- Movies provide an illusion of movement (Persistence of vision, 24 fps) - 7VerisimilitudeRealistic, anti realistic, combination of two, convincing appearance of truth. Movies are verisimilar when they convince you that things on screen are really there.
Expectations of "reality" change over time and across cultures. German 30s not familiar to contemporary Americans. - 8Cinematic languageSystems, methods and conventions by which the movies communicate with viewer. Language of shots, from which we seek meaning.
Degree of agreement between filmmaker and audience. Dissolve = passing of time, 2 mins or years. - 9Film AnalysisAgainst :
-Destroyer of beauty
-Kills love for object
-Better to accept art intuitively, emotionally and subjectively, uncluttered by intellect
For :
-Can experience beauty intellectually as well
-Analysis can discover deepest reaches of understanding
-New awareness makes our love for movies stronger
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- Film App FlashCards sobre The Art of Watching Films, criado por Hansa Luximan em 27-01-2014.
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- Hansa Luximan · jan 2014
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