sound clips from Friday 23rd September's lesson

1)Jaws/non- diegetic sound
2)Rear Window/ diegetic sound

Two classic examples of film sound creating meaning for the spectator.

What types of response does the sound in these clips create in you personally?

An Introduction to Editing / Using new skills in Fritz Lang's 'M'

Applying editing skills to Fritz Lang's 'M'  click here

Continuity Editing in Rear Window

Here are the slides from the continuity editing lesson on REAR WINDOW. Use these slides with the opening sequence of the film ,which is here for you to read. Click on linkREAR WINDOW CONTINUITY EDITING

Storyboarding

Watch this before you start this week's homework; due in Friday 7th October.

Colour and Lighting

This is the last post relating to learning on mis en scene and cinematography. We are on track to have a 1st draft of your coursework completed by Tuesday 1st November. This is the new deadline that we are working towards.Click here for color and lighting images from the lesson of Friday 7th October. LINK

Genre Introduction

You must make some reference to genre in your MA essay, concentrate on iconography and how it creates meaning.
Genre slide show

28 Days Later

The week beginning the 10th October we will spend 2 lessons preparing for our first piece of coursework. '28 DAYS LATER' will be one of the last two films we will look at together before you are on your own. Please READ this 7 minute excerpt at least 7 times before the lesson on Tuesday 11th October.    click here for background information on the film  Read the information on this link before reading the clip.

Donnie Darko

How does the director present his ideas in this 2m34s?  Refer to camera movement, camera shot, lighting, mise-en- scene, sound, body codes. Are there any recurring themes? better resolution on youtube click here

Editing Ideas for the Storyboard

link for editing ideas

storyboard genre ideas/ genre conventions

click storyboard ideas
Read through the information here to refresh your memory of the work we covered on generic conventions. Make sure that your 'context and aims section' makes explicit the genre of film you have created. You should also ensure the conventions of the genre are reflected in the narrative, mise-en-scene, cinematography, sound and editing of your story board creation.

3rd January 2012

Click here for our first lesson of 2012

Yasmin - BORDERS lesson 1 23/1/11

Click for Yasmin            BORDERS AND BELONGING

Supply & Demand Windows & Synergy

 click here supply and demand windows and synergy

FILM STATISTICS FOR ESSAY

supply & demand

Supply and Demandclick here

Useful links on why we go to the cinema
why-do-we-still-go-to-the-movies-in-the-21st-century?

why-do-we-go-to-the-cinema?     

why-do-people-go-to-cinema?

Cinema in decline because of new technologies?

Threats to cinema going, wider reading

3d-not-vod-biggest-threat-to-cinemas

Does video on demand threaten the cinema?

VOD 3D cinema

 click here BFI film facts

OVERVIEW of FILM LANGUAGE AT AS

Click on the drawing for a large image of the AS overview

possible essay segments

Greater Depth UK FILM COUNCIL

The value of film

Homework for first week back 21st February

Similarities in Rear Window/ Disturbia approx a side on each area
1) Generic conventions
2) Narrative conventions
3) Male crisis of identity
4) Voyeurism/ Scopophilia

Contrasts REAR WINDOW/ DISTURBIA

Click for Contrasts focussing on context

Generic Hybridity/ Stars/ Pervasive Technology

Click here for materials from lesson on three key contrasts

It's that Scopophilia thing again

Three key scenes that can be used to illustrate :
THE GAZE/ OBJECTIFICATION/IDENTIFICATION/ VOYEURISM/ SCOPOPHILIA
Spectatorship in rear window

This week's learning

Click HERE for 'From Hollywood's Golden Age to High Concept Film'.

Film Exhibition

Film Exhibition

British Film

British Film click here for a quick version of film. Looking at ealing and Gainsborough studios to the axing of the UK Film Council

Independent Films

Indie Filmhttp://www.slideshare.net/slayas/indie-film

The King's Speech click here for a case study of this film

Kick ASS case study

Kick ASS case study click here