ECO101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Screenwriter, Marcel Duchamp
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The overall set of relationships among a film"s parts. Formal analysis assumes an active perceiver and an art work that provides cues. "if you are a director or screen writer, you face perpetual choices about form. As a viewer you are responding to it at every moment. " Meaning is created in the interaction between film and audience. Form is what connects film and filmmakers and audience - each depends on each other. Referential: challenge involved in making a specific film - relations and dynamic - constructing the story world. Film could be written differently by different people. When certain things are repeated, they become conventions (camera movements) Artistic practices that are so recurrent as to prove normative. Ensure the mass legibility of film techniques and practices. Form constitutes parts of a work of art that are ordered in some way. Form and content are not mutually exclusive: rather, content takes shape through form.
