Transcript conventions of film

THE ART OF BEING
HUMAN
HU300
John Ragan
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Our agenda for this seminar
Finishing Unit 8
 Looking ahead to Unit 9
 The final project
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First…any questions?
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Any questions about the course, or
the assignments?
Unit 8
 Unit 8 – human expression through Film
CONVENTIONS OF FILM
Conventions are the
conditions accepted by
the audience.
Cinematography is the
way in which the camera
tells the story.
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CONVENTIONS OF FILM
Conventions
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intercut
elongated moment
lingering take
pan
dissolve
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CONVENTIONS OF FILM
Conventions
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freeze frames
tracking shot
cut
quick cut
flip
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EARLY MILESTONES
Invention
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Thomas Edison “peep show” &
projector technology
Arts and Propaganda
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D.W. Griffith – The Birth of a
Nation
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Eisenstein - Potemkin
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MAJOR FILM GENRES
Slapstick Comedy
o
Chaplin & the Little
Tramp – Gold Rush,
Modern Times
Farce
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Marx Brothers – A Night
at the Opera
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MAJOR FILM GENRES
Animated Film
Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs
o Who Framed Roger
Rabbit?
o Ratatouille
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MAJOR FILM GENRES
Film Noir
Huston - The Maltese
Falcon
o Wilder - Double
Indemnity
o Truffaut - Shoot the
Piano Player
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MAJOR FILM GENRES
Romantic Comedy
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It Happened One Night
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The Philadelphia Story (comedy of
manners)
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Adam’s Rib
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When Harry Met Sally
o
As Good as It Gets
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MAJOR FILM GENRES
Romantic Comedy
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Monsoon Wedding
Lost in Translation
Screen Musical
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Singin’ in the Rain
Dirty Dancing
Shall We Dance?
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MAJOR FILM GENRES
The Western
High Noon
o Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid
o Dances with Wolves
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MAJOR FILM GENRES
Horror and Suspense
o Un Chien Andalou
Social Issues
o Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
o It’s a Wonderful Life
o Grapes of Wrath
o Sullivan’s Travels
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MAJOR FILM GENRES
Social Issues
o Do the Right Thing
o Tales from the Hood
o The Lives of Others
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MAJOR FILM GENRES
Documentaries &
Docudramas
Documentaries – a nonfiction film that usually
has a narrator but not a structured storyline.
Winged Migration
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Roger and Me, Bowling for Columbine,
Fahrenheit 9/11
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An Inconvenient Truth
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MAJOR FILM GENRES
Documentaries & Docudramas
Docudrama – a nonfiction film
that has not only a narrator but
characters, either real people or
actors, and a story line.
o
Ladybird, Ladybird
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MAJOR FILM GENRES
Fictionalized Biography
The Agony and the
Ecstasy (Michelangelo)
o Lust for Life (van Gogh)
o Amadeus (Mozart)
o La Vie en Rose (Piaf)
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MAJOR FILM GENRES
Adaptations
The Killers
(Hemingway’s “The Killers”
o Tess of the D’Urbervilles
(Hardy)
o Troy ( The Iliad)
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TWO AMERICAN CLASSICS
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Citizen Kane
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Casablanca
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THE FILM AUTEUR
Ingmar Bergman
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The Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
Federico Fellini
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La Stada
La Dolce Vita
8 1/2
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THE FILM AUTEUR
Alfred Hitchcock
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Shadow of a Doubt
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The Birds
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Psycho
Akira Kurosawa
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The Seven Samurai
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Throne of Blood
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Ran
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THE FILM AUTEUR
Stanley Kubrick
o Paths of Glory
o Dr. Strangelove, or How I
Learned to Stop Worrying
and Love the Bomb
o A Clockwork Orange
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THE FILM AUTEUR
Francis Ford Coppola
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The Godfather Trilogy
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Apocalypse Now
Martin Scorsese
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Mean Streets
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Age of Innocence
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The Departed
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THE FILM AUTEUR
Pedro Almodovar
o To sobre mi madre (All
About My Mother)
o Hable con ella (Talk to
Her)
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What film genres appeal to you?
And…do you think a film should
have a moral lesson?
Is this similar to the other arts
that are found in the Humanities
(painting, music, literature, etc)?
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Looking ahead to Unit 9
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On the topic of popular culture:
Items, lifestyles, products, etc.,
that are known by, accepted by,
or followed by a large segment
of the population.
Popular culture…
what things would you say are
part of current American popular
culture?
UNIT 9
There is no reading assignment –
instead, you are asked to view a
part of a PBS special on
advertising in modern America.
Unit 9
There also is a discussion
assignment and a seminar…
 The Unit 9 seminar is our
final seminar of the course!
 The final project is due in
Unit 9
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Final projects
 Per the Kaplan late policy: Late
final projects must have a grade
reduction of one letter grade (if
the project normally would have
received a B, it will need to be
given a C, etc)