Comm 231 Class Two September 14 2015 Style and content in Film Style how film unfolds in images and sounds Content Characters story themes Content Dictates Style Style affects our understanding of the content Therefore style and content are not mutually exclusive Things to pounder Where is the camera What is it doing Where is the setting What time of day What is the lighting like What do we hear What does it sound like Analyzing Film Meaning Wizard of OZ as example Referential meaning Plot summary refers to the world of experience Kansas vs OZ in the depression a cyclone takes a girl from her family s farm in Kansas to a mythical land of Oz After a series of adventures she returns home Explicit Meaning point of the film there is no place like home A girl dreams of leaving home to escape her troubles Only after she leaves does she realize how much her home means to her Implicit Meaning themes courage self discovery power of love importance of family An adolescent girl who must soon face the adult world yearns for a return to the simple world of childhood but she eventually accepts the demands of adulthood Symptomatic Meaning ideology Treats the implicit and explicit meanings of the film as manifestations of a wider set of values characteristics of a whole society In a society where human worth is measured in money home and family may seen to be the last refuge of human values This belief is especially seen in times of economic crisis such as that of the depression era of US in 1930s Layers of meaning Referential meaning a story about a Hollywood producer who gets away with murdering a writer Explicit meaning Villains and heroes are not black and white bad people don t always finish last Implicit meaning art vs commerce in film production Symptomatic meaning movie making although based as an art form remains predominate an industry Motion picture History Kinescope Thomas Edison 1893 Motion picture History Cinematographe Auguste and Louis Lumiere 1895 only lasted 50 seconds becomes a social experience and see reactions 24 still frames every second illusion of motion What are at least three differences between still photographs and motion pictures A Realism motion of subjects B Changing perspective moving camera C Time Film like music and theater are time based art forms D Induction to sound 2 Motion picture Photography 35 mm 16 mm less and less of used for early television Digital photography you can shoot a lot with less film which is cheaper but you can get a little sloppy Palmcorder Prosumer Digital Photography Television Professional Shot sizes DP tells operator On moodle Ex Low Eye Level High Worms Eye Canted Birds Eye 3
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