THTRFLM 2FA3 Lecture Notes - 180-Degree Rule, Nuclear Family, Product Placement
Document Summary
Film industry practices and econ tend to determine stylistic and thematic concerns in contemp us cinema. We consider some of the commercial concerns that inform contemp film makers practices in the globalising us film industry. We consider the limitations places by theses practices on the range of possible meanings that film audiences globally may access when decoding blockbuster hits. Mise-en scene: lighting (direction, quality, colour, cource) setting and props, performance, costume and make-up. Cinematography: camera angles, camerea distance, camera, movement camera tech, camera focus, framinig, off screen space and on screen space, duration. Editing: types of shot transitions, rhythm, graphic relations, spatial relations (180 degree rule, kuleshov effect ect) Sound: dialouge/speech and the human voice, music, sound effects/ noise, silence, pitch, volume, timbre etc. We are not always moving forward, progress is not always good: the iconography of startrek reproduced.