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Film Appreciation Part 1: How to Read a Film Sampoorna Biswas Terminology and elements of a film Content Form What the film shows How the film shows it Composition Camera Movement Sound Editing Film History Living Fiction, theatre

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Film Appreciation

Part 1: How to Read a Film

Sampoorna Biswas

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Terminology and elements of a film

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Content

What the film shows

Form

How the film shows it

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Composition Camera Movement Sound Editing

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Film History

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Very short films (<1 min) “Theatrical”

“Living Photography” Fiction, theatre for the masses

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Theatrical Cinema

Make Up Stage-like backdrops Static Camera “scenes”

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A Trip to the Moon - Georges Méliès (1902)

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(Neo-)Realistic Cinema

Subtler acting Shooting on location Natural lighting Tracking shots

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Weekend - Jean-Luc Godard (1967)

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Composition

To look at composition, we start with a “shot”

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Long Shot

Often uses wide angle lens Purposes: Show vastness, place

  • bject in its surroundings

Close Up

Both wide angle or telephoto Purposes: Show small details, make the scene “intense”

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The Grand Budapest Hotel - Wes Anderson (2014)

Notice camera distortion

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Rule of Thirds

Reference points for good framing

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The Shining - Stanley Kubrick (1980)

What about this?

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Blank Space - Taylor Swift (2014)

Gives a sense of grandeur, being centre of the world

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High Angle

(Trunk shot)

Low Angle

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The Shining - Stanley Kubrick (1980)

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Camera Movement

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Zooming v/s Panning

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Shaky Cam

Purposes: make scenes fast-paced, add to general confusion

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Sound

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Diegetic Sound

Part of the story world

Non-Diegetic Sound

Outside the story world

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Stranger Than Fiction - Marc Forster (2006)

Which is which?

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Editing

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Cuts and Takes

Piece of video shot at a time Tracking shot example from Weekend is a long take Jump cuts: Discontinuous shots placed after each other

(6.01 onwards)

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Agent Vinod - Sriram Raghavan (2012)

How many cuts did you count?

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Videos Used in the Presentation

1. A Trip to the Moon, George Méliès - https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=BNLZntSdyKE 2. Tracking Shot from Weekend, Jean Luc Godard - https://youtu.be/BySdtZWDCwI 3. Symmetry from Blank Space, Taylor Swift - https://youtu.be/e-ORhEE9VVg 4. Low Angle from The Shining, Stanley Kubrick - https://youtu.be/pk_W4MZF2os 5. Panning v/s Zooming Example - https://youtu.be/r988E_J14FM 6. Shaky Cam shots from Hunger Games - https://youtu.be/bTz-DazShYw 7. Diegetic v/s Non-Diegetic Sound from Stranger Than Fiction, Marc Forster - https://youtu.be/6h6Mb7zrXx0 8. Interview with Alfred Hitchcock - https://youtu.be/NG0V7EVFZt4 9. Long Take from Agent Vinod, Sriram Raghavan - https://youtu.be/-d9nvq3402M