RTVF 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Amazon Video, Hulu, Netflix
14 May 2018
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- The Most Popular Art Form Today
- Movies are not just watched in theaters today:
- TiVo
- RedBox
- Netflix
- Hulu
- Amazon Video
- iPads/iPhones
- Etc.
- Cinematic Language
- Visual and sonic vocab of film; it has its own kind of “grammar” too
- Composed of many integrated techniques, codes and concepts
- Connects the viewer to the story while deliberately concealing the means
which it does so
- Marketing strategy for theaters:
- Movie pass deals (for example $6 at Camera 12)
- More customers
- More food being sold
- → movie pass
- Actively Looking at movies
- Recognize the tools and principles that filmmakers employ to tell stories,
convey info and meaning, and influence and emotions
- Understand movies as a narrative, as artistic expression, and as a
reflection of the cultures that produce and consume
- Brokeback Mountain
- Taboo topic for straight actors
- Find the funds, advertisement, tie ins, etc.
- Shows how society impacts a film
- What is a movie, cinema, or a film?
- Essentially interchangeable terms
- Form of popular entertainment
- Narrative that tells a fictional story
- Presentation of a story
- Basic construction of a movies
- Shot--
an unbroken span of action captured by an uninterrupted run of
motion-picture camera
- Editing
--the joining together discrete (separate shots)
- Fariseo→ shot→ sequence→ scene→ act→ movie
- With each transition from one shot to another, a movie is able to move the
viewer through time and space
Document Summary
Movies are not just watched in theaters today: Visual and sonic vocab of film; it has its own kind of grammar too. Composed of many integrated techniques, codes and concepts. Connects the viewer to the story while deliberately concealing the means which it does so. Movie pass deals (for example at camera 12) Recognize the tools and principles that filmmakers employ to tell stories, convey info and meaning, and influence and emotions. Understand movies as a narrative, as artistic expression, and as a reflection of the cultures that produce and consume. Basic construction of a movies motion-picture camera. Shot-- an unbroken span of action captured by an uninterrupted run of. With each transition from one shot to another, a movie is able to move the viewer through time and space. 3rd person omniscient viewer (or dreamer) to the protagonist"s" perspective. Analysis the act of taking apart something complicated to figure.
