THTRFLM 3FF3 Lecture Notes - Gaumont Film Company, Visual Poetry, Soviet Montage Theory

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Theatre & Film Studies
• Course: THTRFLM 3FF3
• Professor: Joe Sokalski

Document Summary

Story is everything, the best telling of the tale. All elements are subservient to the telling of this story. Fiilm moves in a linear manner so audiences don"t get confused. Each event is marked step by step to the next event. Time and space is coherent through each scene. The unity is of course obtained by clear narrative resolution with all questions about the plot being answered and all ends being tied up. Classical film creates habit between viewers, creates quite a sense of laziness on the part of the viewer. Classical film narritives that jump out from bringing up baby. Bringing up baby, restricted as to what it can represent. David falls in love with susan vance and it comes to a peak when they are lost in the fores, comes again to a peak as she trips and falls. Degree to which charcaters commit to each other emotionally.