FILM 1401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Eyeline Match, Invisibility, Pro Tools
19 Oct 2015
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Films try to play on audience expectations to either comply with them or to overturn them in order to get a specific reaction. Can deal with your expectations in ways that can subvert them or make you curious. Looking at movies is less passive than watching. Cinematic language: the accepted systems, methods, or conventions by which the movies communicate with the viewer. Visual vocabulary refers to things that are seen. (seen/scene) Length of the shot vs length of a take. Everything that composes a scene can be lumped into mise-en-scene. Movies will tend to favor stories and themes that reinforce viewers" shared belief systems. After all, the films are made to entertain the audiences and not anger them. Many characters reject convention but ultimately upholds the very institutions they seemingly scorn, which is something movie viewers often connect with and makes for an interesting protagonist.
