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