MUSCLG 7 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Motion Picture Patents Company, Irving Thalberg, Fictional Film
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No such thing as a silent film. Sound is present in many aspects of film, but only as music and sound effects: no dialogue. Providing rhythmic coordination for action: e. g. : military/army, easy for them to move to the beat of the music. Creating a sense of continuity to smooth out editing cuts. Supporting the mise-en-scene: location in time, location in space, (the primitive, the archaic, the exotic, the supernatural) Music sounds like emotions feel; music tells us how to feel about things: it is hard to understand the emotion the characters are showing without dialogue music helps with understanding. Technical, aesthetic, and production developments in the silent film era. Intertitles replace explanations allows them to travel. Formal techniques such as parallel editing (cross cutting) and montage become established resources. Narrative film becomes dominant mode: avant garde films refuse narrative goes against the regular style of story.
