INI100H1 Lecture Notes - Pointless, Personal Taste, War Film
19 Nov 2012
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Hard and soft openings: hard openings: exciting bit of action that grabs the viewers" interest. Grabbing the audience in jurassic park: soft openings: slowly paced, that gradually builds up involvement. Enticing the audience in close encounters of the third kind. Artists create patterns to engage our senses when viewing film. They give them form so we have a structured experience. Film coaxes us to connect sequences into a larger whole. Form: the overall system of relationships among the parts of a film. Our experience of film depends on our recognizing and anticipating how these broad patterns will develop. Our narrative development can be linked to the stylistic (the way the camera moves, the arrangements of the colour in the frame, the use of music, and other devices) patterning. Movements of the camera call our attention to story action. The music serves to describe certain characters and situations.
