Introduction to film

 

Deconstruction: breaking down the film.

Construction: building the film.

Content

Narrative- story/plot: what it's about

• Story is the events 
• Plot is the order of the events.  Beginning, middles and end. The story is what the plots are based on.
• Story board/shooting script. 

Genre, theme: same story but can have two different types of events and plots.

Form

How it's constructed 

• Editing 
• Script
• Sound

Theme/issues 

The big thing the film is about e.g. Good vs. evil, right v.s wrong.

Cinematography

(Camera) 

• Type of shot: long, medium, close up ect
• Camera angle- low: looking up at the body- making them look god like. High: to look small and weak. 
• Crane shot/ birds eye view

Camera movement 

• Static/stationary 
• Hand-held
• Zoom
• Shot reverse shot 
• Pan left/right 
• Tracking/dolly shot: dolly wheels to move a long but have freedom to move unlike tracking which can only move where the tracks are placed. 

Sound

Diegetic 

Sound from talking/ from the scene. 

Non-diegetic

Sound being put into the scene e.g. Music, voice over, sound effects 

Diegesis

World of the film

Lighting

• Light and dark- shadows 
• Lighting can effect the feelings of the audience
• Colour: black and white
• Colour can also be symbolic: black darkest use to be looked at as bad/ evil however has changed to good. For example batman

Editing
Broken up into shots
Films made of scenes
Scenes made of shots


Continuity
Lighting and sound continuity is important. Using the different types of music is a good way of linking the shots.


Transitions

• Fades (in and out)
• dissolve (one disappearing and one appearing)
• superimposition: one shot over another shot
• normal cuts: no transition
• wipe: movement from left and right. (old action to new action)