INI100H1 Lecture Notes - Independent Film, Marcel Duchamp
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Film form: overall set of relationships among a film"s parts (52: form must be actively perceived/experienced by a viewer to produce meaning, fa assumes an active perceiver and art work that provides cues. *through fa we discover how movies make meaning: meanings are created in the interaction between film and viewer. Meanings are the result of a collaborative effort from makers that provides cues, and the viewer that picks up on these cues. Films have multiple meanings (don"t need to know the 4 labels): referential, explicit, cinematic know that film can mean different things: eg. Explicit about making a movie: referential meaning (historical/geographically specific): challenges involved about being independent film maker working outside of hollywood. 1 the same film can be viewed differently by different viewers. 2 films have more than one meaning: filmic conventions ensure the mass legibility of cinema.