February
11
Glossary Terms
- Genre
- A set of certain conventions and tropes that are used to group films, e.g. action, horror, comedy
- Mise en scene
- The little things in film
- Scenery, props, etc
- e.g. Blue or rain symbolising sadness; the presence of a crib symbolising the presence (or lack thereof) of a baby
- Shot reverse shot
- Simple cut between two shots
- Usually between two character looking at each other
- Almost always uses 180 degree rule for continuity
- Pan/Track/Zoom/Tilt
- Camera movements (illutstrate)
- Pan ← →
- Side to side
- Track → o → o
- Following a subject
- Zoom o → O
- Towards/Away from
- Tilt ^^
- Up and down
- Pan ← →
- Psychoanalysis
- Looking at the meaning of film in relation to the psyche and how it makes the characters and/or spectators feel & react and why
- Psychoanalytic Film Theory
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- Uses research of Freud & Jacques Lacan
- Closely related to critical theory, Marxist film theory & Appartus theory
- Suture
- Allows the spectator to forget that it’s the camera doing the ‘looking’
- Immersion
- The gaze
- Male Gaze – Laura Mulvey
- e.g. the trope of seeing women often nude or sexualised
- e.g. Superhero movies; particularly women’s clothing and costumes. Look at Black Widow.
- e.g. Women’s bodies in crime films are often shown in compromising positions. You don’t really think about it until you see it, but just think about how many times you’ve seen a female victim’s body as opposed to a man’s.
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- Rise of the female gaze in modern cinema
- https://medium.com/truly-social/yes-theres-such-a-thing-as-a-female-gaze-but-it-s-Not-what-you-think-d27be6fc2fed
- e.g. Films like Magic Mike
- Audience
- Target audiences for film
- e.g. Action films often being aimed at men, children’s films not being marketed to adults
- Representation
- How well and fairly different groups, people & issues are portrayed within film
- Also how well and fairly they are treated for their work, e.g. Oscars whitewashing issues
- Montage
- A compilation of images or videos cut together to form a sequence
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtnTs90knro (Eisenstein’s 5 methods of montage)
- Metric
- Relates to the length of the shots cut together
- Rhythmic
- Cutting on action in a scene to reflect pace & continuity
- Ramps up tension
- Tonal
- Two images with similar themes
- Enhances
- Over-tonal
- Combination of all above
- Creates effect larger than the sum of its parts
- Intellectual
- Two or more shots with meanings of their own to create a new meaning
- Juxtapositions
- Metric
