Film Studies 1020E Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Key Light, Diegesis, The Sequence
19 Apr 2016
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Chapter 1: film as art: creativity, technology, and business. Film form the overall relationship between a films parts: the form of a film can be analyzed through its patterns, patterns queue us to form expectations. Conventions what is allowed within the parameters of a specific genre, commonly repeated twists or patterns in a body of films. There are 2 parts to a film: denotative = literal meaning, connotative = explicit meaning (what the movie tells us, narrative, non narrative. You can not separate film and content. Subject matter something outside the film, treated differently in different films. Similarity and repetition: motif - a significant element that is repeated through the film, parallelism the process whereby the film cues the spectator to compare two or more distinct elements by highlighting similarity. Development: we need variety, contrast and change, we can find difference and variation in the foreground, broad sense of a film, how it develops ex.
