ENGL217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Unit, Auteur Theory, Dramatic Structure

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL217
• Professor: Beecher Alicia

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Narrative (highlighted sentences means the information is on the quiz) Different units: narrative- characters, the basics, mise on scene- design, composition, cinematography- camera work. A narrative that tells a fictional story. Allows people to understand how movies shape the way we view the world. Film analysis: background information, overall meaning, formal elements. Director: find their other films, awards, film style. Year of release: social/political context during that time period. Genre: similarities& differences from genre conventions (useful website imdb. com) Tools they used to make the film. Everything in the frame is there deliberately. A movie devoted to conveying fictional stories. Writes the movies screenplay in its various stages. A screenwriter who also directs the film is called an auteur. Implicit events or those we inter to have happened. Backstory; a fictional history behind the situation. Plots can be linear (chronological) or nonlinear (out of sequence) Five part dramatic plot structure: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement (the ending)