Media Aesthetics Notes
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September 19th
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Film Form; Film & Critical Analysis – Chapter 11 * Step 1: Develop a thesis * What is interesting, disturbing or noteworthy? * Does that aspect illustrate a concept from lecture w clarity? Is it a good example of something we talked about in class? * Did it have a unique effect on you? * Step 2: Segment the film * What features stuck out the most (given that weeks class topic)? * How are those features related to the film as a whole? Pay attention to details and how they affect the film * Step 3: Identify the outstanding instances of technique * Understand the techniques/concepts * Note specific examples of techniques * Types of lighting, angle, shots, narrative, style, etc.
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September 26th
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Styles of Film * Two major directions – realistic and formalistic * Directions or “types” are defines by form, not content
Three Styles of Film/Media: * Realistic (focused on content, portraying as real life) * Classicism (in-between) * Formalism (manipulation, taking out of reality)
Realism: * Reproduce reality with minimum distortion-objective mirror * Major concern is with content, rather than form * Subject matter is supreme * Documentary film * Imagine as we’re watching it as we would see it through our own eyes * Ex: Big Brother – raw, unscripted, stagnant cameras, not playing w manipulation * Would never see something like a birds eye view of crowds of people, because we would never see that in real life. If we were watching a conversation happening it would be from one angle
Formalism:
* Deliberately stylized and distort images (special effects, explosions, zooming in/out, narrative structure: in real life happens in
September 19th
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Film Form; Film & Critical Analysis – Chapter 11 * Step 1: Develop a thesis * What is interesting, disturbing or noteworthy? * Does that aspect illustrate a concept from lecture w clarity? Is it a good example of something we talked about in class? * Did it have a unique effect on you? * Step 2: Segment the film * What features stuck out the most (given that weeks class topic)? * How are those features related to the film as a whole? Pay attention to details and how they affect the film * Step 3: Identify the outstanding instances of technique * Understand the techniques/concepts * Note specific examples of techniques * Types of lighting, angle, shots, narrative, style, etc.
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September 26th
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Styles of Film * Two major directions – realistic and formalistic * Directions or “types” are defines by form, not content
Three Styles of Film/Media: * Realistic (focused on content, portraying as real life) * Classicism (in-between) * Formalism (manipulation, taking out of reality)
Realism: * Reproduce reality with minimum distortion-objective mirror * Major concern is with content, rather than form * Subject matter is supreme * Documentary film * Imagine as we’re watching it as we would see it through our own eyes * Ex: Big Brother – raw, unscripted, stagnant cameras, not playing w manipulation * Would never see something like a birds eye view of crowds of people, because we would never see that in real life. If we were watching a conversation happening it would be from one angle
Formalism:
* Deliberately stylized and distort images (special effects, explosions, zooming in/out, narrative structure: in real life happens in