FS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dramatic Structure, Intertextuality, Self-Reference
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To interpret and articulate the meaning of the lm. To evaluate the lms artistic and cultural importance. To break a lm down to component parts; this reveals how the lm is put together. To understand how a director uses the components/ elements; to create mood and community their vision to you. Theme: the central idea in the piece of art. Motif: object is more than an object, it is symbolic. it connects to the times of the lm and is often times repeated. Metaphor: implied comparisons made between two unlike things that are similar. Self- reference: reference to itself as a lm. Occurs inside the world of the lm. Occurs outside of the world of the lm. Plot: intro, comlication, rising action, climx, falling action, resolution. Given by the lm. order in which the events are presented in the lm. Gured out by the viewers from watching the plot. Reconstruction of the events in chronicalogical order by the viewers.
