ENGB70H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Direct Cinema
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Three major types of movies: narrative, documentary and experimental. > movies do not have to arrange events in conventional order to employ narrative organization. Film industry catalogs films according to how they are distributed or how they are financed. > film festivals separate entries according to running time. Most movies fall squarely into a single category, many others defy exact classification by any standard- > no rule book enforcing set criteria exists. Relationship with the audience is that of a story-teller. Narrative films are directed toward fiction-> even narrative movies that tell a true story adjust the stories-> events are added or removed or rearranged. Based on screenplays in which nearly every behaviour and spoken line is predetermined. Demands include coordinating their activity with lighting design and camera movement, and performing scenes out of logical chronological sequence. > typically takes place in artificial worlds created on studio soundstages. > primary purpose of most narrative films is entertainment.
