FS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Classical Hollywood Cinema, Diegesis, Formal System
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Stylistic elements: order of events; character goals, camera movement, props, editing, special effects, stylistic elements help to describe and communicate narrative elements. Parts of films to organize questions for our interests. Both singin" in the rain and casablanca are mostly linear/chronological but introduce flashbacks. Film form: a system of relationships between elements: the narrative and stylistic elements interact together to create a film"s total formal system. When the elements work together to create a story/narrative, it becomes narrative form. Story (fabula): the sum total of all events that are explicitly presented and that the viewer infers. The story takes place in between what is shown on screen: we can, as viewers, infer what happened during ellipses. Diegesis: the world of the story film) Diegetic: belonging to the world of the story (inside the. Plot (syuzhet): all of the visual and sonic material presented explicitly to the viewer.
