Film and Culture: Week 2 - Film Form

Film and Culture Week 2

ñ  Pre-class survey or quiz on difficult parts of the textbook that need expanding.

◦   Use polleverywhere.com

ñ  Discussion of Pelada

ñ  Demonstrate online discussion

ñ  Film form lecture

◦   Mise En Scene

▪   Use shot from Kagemusha

◦   Shot – Scene – Sequence

◦   Cinematography

▪   Clip from intro video?

◦   Editing

▪   Three purposes of editing

ñ  Continuity

ñ  Meaning

ñ  Deception

▪   Kuleshov Effect

◦   Sound Design

▪   Room Tone Track

▪   Score

▪   ADR

◦   Diagetic elements vs non-diagetic elements

◦   Types of Film

▪   Narrative

▪   Documentary

▪   Direct Cinema

▪   Experimental

◦   Genres of film

ñ  Ideology / Cultural studies

◦   Discussion of what the terms in the book mean

◦   Idea of who is in power vs who is not – how they are represented

◦   Def of Culture (values, beliefs, and norms)

◦   Invisibility of Culture

◦   high art / low art

◦   communication model (graphic)

ñ  Studio system

◦   Traditional story structure

◦   “Golden Era” moviemaking

▪   Movie theater experience

▪   Big 5 (majors)

ñ  WB

ñ  MGM

ñ  20^th C Fox

ñ  RKO

ñ  Paramount

▪   Little 3

ñ  Columbia

ñ  Universal

ñ  United Artists (Fairbanks, Pickford, Chaplin)

ñ  Break!

ñ  Watch The Artist

ñ  Break

ñ  Discuss The Artist

ñ  Online Discussion