POL 128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Turkish Coffee, The Great Dictator
4 May 2016
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Focuses on what can be seen on the screen. Pro-filmic events exist before it can be filmed. Framing: position, depth of field, aspect ratio, height and angle (but not movement) Diegetic sound: sounds that emanates from the scene. He saw another guy who was reading a newspaper written in arabic. The guy showed the arabic guy his necklace that has a david"s star pendant. Then, a group of bald guys sat around the arabic guy and sprayed a swastika symbol on the guy"s newspaper. The guys hid his necklace and stared at the arabic guy and the bald guys. His phone rang and he turned it off. The arabic guy and the jewish guy ran from the bald guys. Setting: the train shows the intense action between the characters due to its limited space. Framing: close up of the characters as they stare each other increases the tension between them.
