Welcome To Film Studies 2014-2015

These early posts are your wider reading for the first two weeks of the Autumn Term. Here you will find not only useful resources from class that you can access from home but also links to places from where you will be able to pick up your wider reading notes. Wider reading will be important if you are to really excel in your learning!  Good Luck with the course and I hope you enjoy your first lessons in READING film.....not WATCHING film!

Mrs Layas

Click here for week ones introduction. The clips are disabled here at the moment however.
http://www.slideshare.net/slayas/film-studies-one

A good starting point

You will need to use film language appropriately in order to express your cinematic understanding. Follow this link for a clear illustrated glossary.

http://www.filmsite.org/filmterms12.html

Mise en scene

Follow this link to  powerpoints which explain mise en scene. This will be the major focus of our learning in the autumn term.
mise en scene1

mise en scene 2

Home Study exercise 1 Clip( pre- cut version)

Here is the clip to support your first home study exercise. This clip is the uncut version and has extra footage that is not included in the final film. For your homework  concentrate on the parts of the film that we have covered in class yesterday and today.

Lesson 2 & 3

Lesson 2 & 3
Applying new film language to a clip
http://www.slideshare.net/slayas/film-studies-two-9208101

Performance and Movement

Notes from today's lesson on performance and movement. All linked to se7en.

http://www.slideshare.net/slayas/performance-and-movement

Lesson 4 Amplifying Meaning

Mise en scene and cinematography

Stills from today's lesson

Camera Angles and Shots

A clip showing angles and shots. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwbsYgZ7d-8&feature=channel_video_title

A useful introduction to the complex world of camera angles. Watch it! Very useful for your micro analysis.

How Sound Makes Meaning in FILM

Diegetic and Non- Diegetic Sound in Film

Here is a link to Friday 23rd of September's class notes. The clips we watched in class are disabled here. The main point to focus your attention upon is how sound interracts with other elements of mise  en scene that we have studied to CREATE MEANING.Clips are two posts above this one.
http://www.slideshare.net/slayas/sound-and-meaning

Props/costume /body codes

Use your class notes to help  



Complete a micro analysis (a reading of the film in minute detail/ a deconstruction)  of the film in this post. Your focus should be on body codes, costume and props and how the director creates meaning for the the spectator. Consider the portrayal of the characters,their relationship to one another and how this is constructed through mise-en-scene.  (approx 450 words)

Cinematography- main focus of week 3

The link below contains this weeks key learning on shots and angles. You should ensure you are familiar with not only the terminology of this weeks work but also the response that cinematography creates in the spectator.

http://www.slideshare.net/slayas/shots-angles

DEADLINE for MICROANALYSIS of SE7EN is TODAY



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

Yasmin and Dirty Pretty Things case studies

 

Link to today's cover work