Film Studies 1020E Lecture 3: Film Class 3.5.docx
22 Apr 2015
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A reflexive reveals the principals of its own construction. A film director directs and constructs a film but a film also directs and constructs its spectators. 1st = film form: how the film is made. Shows cell animation which is animation that uses a series of drawings on celluloid, called cells for short. Slight changes between the drawings combine to create an illusion of movement (bt. 2nd = film as production: who made the film. 3rd = film as spectatorship: the activity of viewing. Types of foreknowledge (what we know before we watch the film text ): Contextual: knowledge of things and concepts outside the text. Intertextual: knowledge of other texts or works of art. History and principles of the classic hollywood cinema. A representative or typical model, . a set of narrative and stylistic standards which, according to tacit rules, can be adjusted, changed, and/or substituted for one another .
