MCC-UE 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Intertextuality, Diegesis, Film Stock
15 Oct 2016
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Cinematic signs as the basic compositional elements or building material of a film, Cinematic codes as the interpretive structures that organize these elements so that they can signify effectively. Editing, light, color or black & white, sound, composition, character, plot, acting, etc. Codes that film shares w/other media, art forms, or communication in real life. Conventions of talk, characterization, gesture, facial expression, clothing. Part of social reality of a particular culture. Black & white vs color, 70 mm vs 35 mm, high or low resolution. Composition: way content is arranged w/in a film frame. Montage: the way shots, sequences, & scenes are arranged during editing to convey the story. Commonly accepted, yet always evolving acting styles. Bollywood cinema adapts aspects of acting from indian sanskrit theater, traditional folk, & the melodrama form, parsi theater. Conventions of behavior, body language, & vocal expression that come from. Note: bignell also discusses how media intertextuality functions to create new codes w/in film.
