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Part 1 - Visual Analysis Chapter 1 notes
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Movies
stories that we find exciting = our personal taste vs. higher level thinking process of evaluative judgement
Chapter 1 - Thinking Filmically: Learning How to Watch
Film literacy begins with an understanding of the language used and the ideas involved - all within cultural and historical contexts.
You are going to learn how to “read” and evaluate a film.
Why do we watch movies?
Reading a film: to watch a screen and scan the film, frame by frame, gathering information.
Speaking filmically: using proper terminology in the correct context.
Goal: develop a new, more informed kind of film watcher.
Film’s power to affect an audience
Is it because they make us feel a certain way?
What is it about movies that makes them feel the way they do?
Is it the narrative (story), the music, the characters, or the conflict?
Is it a battle? Space invaders? A love story?
Entertainment
A Little Film History
Movies are a social medium
They can be watched alone or together.
They connect people who like and dislike the same films.
-Quoting lines of dialogue, inserting them into everyday conversations
Thomas Edison - credited with bringing film to life here in the U.S.
-Initially he thought movies should be experienced on an individual level
-He invented the Kinetoscope - an early device used to exhibit motion pictures to an individual
-Customers could view moving images by looking in a peephole.
-This was considered a novelty.