POL 128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Political Cinema, Personalization, Product Placement

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 128
• Professor: Hudson Moura

Document Summary

The making of a message- film productions and techniques, and political. Messages: political messages can be present in films either intentionally or unintentionally. The film making process: steps identified for making a film may be in a different sequence, allows us to see how individuals can create and discuss political messages. Conception: refers to the idea of making the film, fil(cid:373)s that origi(cid:374)ate fro(cid:373) a(cid:374) i(cid:374)dividual"s visio(cid:374) is (cid:373)ore likely to have overt and intentional political messages. Production: film producers are in charge of. In many cases the contents message will be in the eyes of the beholder. Subject matter/genre: refers to the class of films with similar setting and plots. Movie conventions: genres tend to follow conventions that audiences have grown accustomed to, conventions in political films serve to minimize conflict on storylines that may cause controversy. Personalization: mainly focus on the individual drama of politically active roles.