Department Events
FILM LANGUAGE
This aims to explore the essence of the cinema and provides conceptual frameworks for understanding film's relationship to reality. To gain the knowledge of film theory or cinema studies is an academic discipline.
Classical Hollywood Cinema- The Eye & the I of Cinema, Classical Hollywood Cinema, Film Narrative
Film Style, Terms for Film. Early Cinema: From Muybridge to The Great Train Robbery- Photography into Moving Image: Muybridge and Early Image Toys, The Beginnings of Cinema: Reality, Artifice, & Spectacle: Edison, Lumière, Méliès…continue
Edison: Entertainment, Lumiere Brothers and The Cinematographe: Actualites, Melies: The "Magic" of Illusion, Narrative and Style Together: The Great Train Robbery.
Silent Film- The Language of Film Develops, Narrative and Conventions: Genre, It and The Crowd, Music in the Silent Era.
Coming of Sound in Film in the 1930-40s- Narrative and Acting in Sound Film, Genre Iconography, Life Cycle of a Genre, Including Television, The Studio System. Film Sound- Diegetic and Non-Diegetic Sound, The Sound Mix, The Elements of a Score, Sound and Image Make Meaning.
Documentary, Experimental, and Animated Film-Beyond Classical Hollywood Cinema, Documentary, Experimental/Avant-Garde, Animation, Influences on Mainstream Film. Mise-en-Scene: What Is in the Shot- Setting, Costume and Make-Up, Lighting, Performance and Movement (Acting, Blocking, Staging).
Cinematography: Photographic Qualities of the Shot- The Look of an Image, Framing, Scale/Proximity, Camera Movement, How the Camera "Speaks" the Language of Film. Editing- Continuity Editing: Invisible Style, The Development of Editing, Montage—Editing as Art. The Digital Era- The Digital Revolution, From CGI to Whole Sets, Worlds, Digital Performers, Transmedia.
