Film Studies 1022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Formal And Material Principles Of Theology, Frame Story, Ruby Slippers
22 Jan 2017
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Steven" spielberg"s jurassic park vs. close encounters of the third kind. Hard opening: grabbing the audience in jurassic park. Soft opening: enticing the audience in close encounters of the third kind. The movies draw us in or immerse us. Those artworks involve us by engaging our senses, feelings, and mind in a process. That process sharpens our interest, focuses our attention, urges us forward. Because the artist has created a pattern. Artists design their works - they give them form - so that we can have a structured experience. For this reason, form is of central importance in film. Subject matter and abstract ideas all enter in to the total form of the artwork. They may cue us to frame certain expectations or imagine certain possibilities. The viewer is expected to follow a story - that is, a pattern of narrative elements. these are events that involve the characters. Dorothy dreams that a tornado blows her to oz.
