THTRFLM 2FA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Formal System, Marlon Brando

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Theatre & Film Studies
• Course: THTRFLM 2FA3
• Professor: Joe Sokalski

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Marlon brando streetcar named desire the actor played (cid:1) Formal analysis is the analysis of the overall film. Most profitable method of analysis for beginner film student. Perceivers of art are actively engaged in the film. Detect patterns and make sense of the stimuli that"s coming at them from the screen. In this manner you as a viewer are making sense of it. The art itself will actively draw you into it. Neither the film or the viewer are in full control. Concept of form is significant because it assumes that there is an (cid:1) (cid:1) order in the way art is put together (cid:1) Presuppose a logic behind the organization of itself. All art has logic applied to how its created. Form is simply the manner in which parts fit together to create a (cid:1) whole and this organization of parts which create the whole is systematic.