CIN105Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Quentin Tarantino, Rotten Tomatoes, Real Film

• School: UTSG
• Department: Cinema Studies
• Course: CIN105Y1
• Professor: Benjamin Wright

Document Summary

This semester: formal analysis, independent film, meaning making mechanism for cinema. Formal analysis: structure analysis that leads us to understand the film, includes film form and the stylistic system. Film form: narrative or non-narrative system: narrative, rhetorical, categorical, associational, abstract. T(cid:455)listi(cid:272) (cid:455)ste(cid:373): des(cid:272)(cid:396)i(cid:271)e a fil(cid:373)"s o(cid:448)e(cid:396)all fo(cid:396)(cid:373), dete(cid:396)(cid:373)i(cid:374)e p(cid:396)i(cid:373)a(cid:396)(cid:455) te(cid:272)h(cid:374)i(cid:395)ues a(cid:374)d interactions, identify patterns (cues), propose functions (the purpose of the techniques and the patterns) E(cid:454)t(cid:396)e(cid:373)el(cid:455) useful a(cid:374)d effe(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e fo(cid:396) us to a(cid:374)al(cid:455)sis the fil(cid:373)"s dna. Film makers deliberately create a system produce attract, cue and motivate the audience to pay attention to certain elements at times, to bring us into the story of the film. Film are complex engines, the parts work together and seems natural. Not the only way to approach the study of film, to understand how the film communicates to you. There is always larger context, where to place the film to a meaning outside the narrative or stylistic systems.