FAMST 96 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cinematic Techniques, Pedro Almodóvar
9 May 2018
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BAD EDUCATION -- Directed by: Pedro Almodovar
Omniscient narration
Self-reflective narration
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Cause and effect very clear
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Melodramatic aspects (connect to Bordwell)
Dramatic storytelling
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Use of identity throughout the film
What helps us understand the characters?
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Importance of names
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Audience contestation of information being given
Controlling the range of information
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Constant telling of stories with different narration
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Stories within stories
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Desire of wanting to know
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Opening sequence
Title acts as an abstract to the story
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Bad education will eventually be revealed
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Bad vs. good -- what constitutes bad?
Questioning morality
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Winks from the filmmakers in regards to the embedded stories they employ later in the film
Stylistic cues (sp?)
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Enrique reading news first sounds like narration but the we realize the dialogue is a conversation
nearby the photograph that is oriented to look like a title page
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Madrid 18980
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Vibrancy and extravagance of colors
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Some info about the characters
Dynamics of their relationships/how they interact with other characters
Who is in charge, who is not, etc.
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Orientation of the character
Where Angel is in his career
Struggling, looking for work, trying to make a name for himself
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What his passions are, etc.
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Starts the "name-game" in the office
"a real actor cannot be called Ignacio Rodriguez"…. "Angel"
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Comedy of the correction from Ignacio to Angel
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Frustration
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Changes in aspect ratio -- showing us where we are in the story
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Stylistic changes/differences as the film progresses
Less vibrant colors (still there but more muted, incorporation of browns)
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More comedic aspects
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Redundancy and repetition
"visit"
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Use of flashbacks
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Rhythm of scenes
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Camera movements
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Sources of diegetic sound sometimes unclear•
MARTIN ARTICLE NOTES
Endless meanings of mise-en-scene•
Creating new definitions for concepts that evolve historically•
Some concepts in film are useful while others are too vague•
Promoting the study of concepts in general and the concept of mise-en-scene•
Paul Willemen (will be studied later too?)
"so-called mise-en-scene"
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Too vague of a term to be in use
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Ranciere - French theorist•
TORI LOPEZ
Lecture 5.2 Discussion (Mise-En-Scene and Bad Education)
Monday, April 16, 2018
