TFM 160 Heath SDSU Quiz 4

Sound Design

Films: Blow Out (1980), No Country For Old Men (2007)

Blow Out (1980)

Uses sound in different ways (Sound as evidence, leverage, documentation and manipulation, backbone of cinema, horror, truth)

Brian De Palma

Directed Blow Out

Asynchronous Sound

Sound that intentionally exploits a discrepancy between a presented sound and the images on screen

Diegetic Sound

Comes from a source within a film's world

Non-Diegetic Sound

Comes from a source outside of the film's world

Types of sound

Dialogue or narration, Score, Environmental/Ambient sounds, Silence

Silence

Produces tension, builds anticipation, menace, desire

Joel and Ethan Coen

Directed No Country For Old Men

Functions of Film Sound

Audience awareness, audience expectations, expressions of point of view, rhythm, characterization, continuity, emphasis

Film History

Film: Killer of Sheep (1977)

Approaches to Film History

Aesthetic, economic, social history, technological

Global factors shaping film history

Film movements and national cinemas

Early Silent Era

1890s - 1920s

German Expressionism

1919-1931

Soviet Montage

1924-1930

Classic Hollywood

1930s - 1950s

Italian Neorealism

1942-1951

French New Wave

1959-1964

The New Hollywood

1965-1980

LA Rebellion filmmakers

"Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers" or the UCLA Rebellion, late 1960s-1980s, response to social injustice, influenced by Melvin van Peebles, Italian Neorealism

Charles Burnett

Grew up in LA in the 1950s, UCLA film school early 1970s, breakout film Killer of Sheep (1978), career championed by Jonathan Rosenbaum, notable films To Sleep With Anger, The Glass Shield

Ideology

Film: Minding the Gap (2018)

Implicit Ideology

Subtle messaging hidden beneath action, reflects social norms

Explicit Ideology

Direct, confrontational messaging, stands at odds with social norms

Personal Documentary

Direct expression of filmmaker's ideology, explores worldview, trauma, regret, generational disconnect, anxiety; filmmaker often a subject

What Determines Ideology?

Social/political forces, cultural trends, personal experiences, political beliefs, aesthetic interests

Spectrum of Ideology

Right Wing (D.W. Griffith - Birth of a Nation, Leni Riefenstahl - Triumph of the Will), Moderate (Most films), Left Wing (Michael Moore - Bowling For Columbine, Ken Loach - The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Spike Lee - Do the Right Thing)

Leni Riefenstahl

Nazi filmmaker

Synthesis

Film: Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis

Film aesthetics tell the story of a conflicted folk singer in 1950s Greenwich Village; discontentment, artistic stagnation, dark humor

Themes

Critical transition in music history, struggles of the artist, wit, comedy, acidic tone, anti-hero narrative, musical performances, sacrifice, betrayal