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,Chapter 1 - Looking at Movies 4
Key Words 4
Cinematic Language 6
What is a movie? 6
Film Vs. Movie Vs. Cinema 6
Cinematic invisibility Vs. Cultural invisibility 6
Implicit Vs. Explicit meaning 7
The director 7
Invisibility and cinematic language 7
Viewer expectations 8
Chapter 2 - Film Form 8
Key Words 8
Form and Content 9
Form and Expectations 10
Patterns 10
Fundamentals of Film Form 11
Movies provide an Illusion of Movement 11
Movies Manipulate Space and Time: 12
Realism and Antirealism: 13
Mise-en-scene - Bordwell 14
Chapter 4 - Elements of Narrative 16
Key Words 16
Narrative Vs Narration Vs. Narrator 17
Characters 18
Narrative Structure 19
Elements of Narrative 20
Duration: 21
Relationship between screen duration and plot duration: 21
Suspense versus Surprise 22
Chapter 6 - Cinematography 23
Cinematographic properties of the shot: 24
Lighting: 25
Source: natural and artificial 25
One can adjust the quality of lighting: 25
Direction of lighting 25
Focal length: 26
Prime lenses 26
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, Depth of field 26
Implied proximity to the camera 27
Depth: 27
Camera angle and height 27
Framing and point of view: 28
Camera movement 28
Speed and length of the shot 28
Documentaries 29
Recording reality - Documentary Film and Television - Frances Bonner 29
Functions of documentaries: 29
Actualities: 29
Creative treatment of reality - GIERSON 29
Core documentary: 29
Documentarism - 1995 29
Mockumentaries 29
Re-enactment 30
Biopic: 30
Dramatization: 30
Types of documentary: 30
Expository 30
Observational 30
Participatory (interactive) 30
Reflective 30
Performative 30
Poetic 31
Klutz film: 31
Ethical documentary 31
Post-documentary 31
Docu-drama: 31
Docu-soaps: observational docu, minimal intervention (use voiceover) 31
Masked: 32
Reality TV 32
Documenting animal life - ANTHROPOMORPHISM 32
Narratives of natural history television for animals 32
Lifecycle story 32
Quest narrative 32
Triumph of science and nature 32
Blue-chip documentary 32
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, Influence of computer generated imagery (CGI): 33
Chapter 8 - Editing 33
The craft and the art of editing 33
Before digital editing: 33
Shot (Definition) 33
The film editor 33
Responsibilities: 34
Editing movie with the camera 35
Content curve 35
Continuity and discontinuity 35
Continuity editing 35
180-degree system 35
Master Scene technique 36
Discontinuity editing 36
Chapter 9 - Sound 37
Soundtrack (types of sound that filmmakers include in their soundtrack): 37
From Beats to Arcs - Michael Newman (Television) 38
Seven components of classical narrative structure 43
The Movie of the Week (MOW) variation: 44
The Television Series and serial: narrative structure 44
Semiotics: signs, codes and cultures - Jostein Gripsrud 47
Film and Ideology - Pramaggiore and Wallis 50
Analysis of 3-4 films from EYE 53
List of films: 53
Summary of each film: 53
Films that will be analysed: 55
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