If you wre gone on Monday and Tuesday...
well here are the notes from those days if you missed them and this is the list of movies
Queen Christina
Strangers on a Train
Laura
Grand Hotel
Nonitchka (comedy)
Anna Karennina (tragedy)
North by Northwest
Vertigo
Chinatown
The Maltese Falcon
The first three we're watching in class, the rest after that are the alternates if we're missing class or can't/ don't want to get the first three movies
... sorry but apparently lj-cuts aren't working... =___=''
FIRST TWO PAPERS DUE MONDAY [240 pts total for movie analysis essays]
General Writing Notes
· Needs to be in ink. Can’t be typed
· start by writing about theme\
o then in thesis statement tie theme into elements (like regular essays)
· it can be single spaced
Topics we’re writing on:
~ Context
~ Content
~ Technical
Other types of analysis
~ Genre
~ Historical
~ Auteur theory
~ Film school products (creations of individual; usually more artistic)
~ Process- (process in which movie was made)
Queen Christina
· Director: Rouben Mamoulian à famous director, known for creating a visual image
· Greta Garbo à one of the few actors who were able to transition from silent to talkies, also had the androgynous feel that adds to the movie
· John Gilbert à known for his silent films but couldn’t transition from silent
· Film is still a transition film (between silent and talkies)
· Acting is stylistic to be over emphasized
· Uses soft focus lighting (makes things a little blurry and pretty
· Some scenes are set as it if were a portrait
Pre-1940’s [during great depression]
· Unhappy happy ending
- Determination to finally live
· Idea that suffering in live is important
- Gave up everything and got nothing
Film Analysis
- context
· historical, social (artists, director , films at the time)
- script
· screenplay
· narrative
· constructing meaning
· continuity
- flashbacks
- parallel construction
· genre
o horror
o suspense
o western
o musical
o screwball comedy
o drama
o melodrama
o film noir
- director
· auteur
- actors
· star vehicle (ex: MI:III Tom Cruse)
· character actor (ex: William H. Macy)
- cinema topography
· framing
· camera movement
· film speed
· shot selection
· exposures (ex: soft focus)
· camera angles
· tenses
· lighting
- editing
· continuity
· cuts on action
· shot-reverse-shot
· eye-line match
· montage theory (Eisenstein a + b = c)
- sound
· spoken dialogue
- voice over
· sound effects
· music
Diegetic Sound / Non Diegetic
\à all part of \àmusic/ voice over
what they have