LANGUAGE OF FILM: MIDTERM

Atlantique (Atlantics)

Mati Diop, 2019, Senegal/France,

Vertigo

Alfred Hitchcock, 1958, America

La Ciénaga (The Swamp)

Lucrecia Martel, 2001, Argentina

La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (The Passion of Joan of Arc)

Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928, France

Dong (The Hole)

Tsai Ming-liang, 1998, Taiwan

Citizen Kane

Orson Welles, 1941, America

Khane-ye doust kodjast? (Where is the Friend's House?)

Abbas Kiarostami, 1987, Iran

Do the Right Thing

Spike Lee, 1989, America

Golden Eighties

Chantal Akerman, 1986, Belgium

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Chantal Akerman, 1975, Belgium/France

Zerkalo (The Mirror)

Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975, U.S.S.R.

Beau Travail

Claire Denis, 1998, France

Fa yeung nin wa (In the Mood for Love)

Wong Kar-Wai, 2000, Hong Kong

The 5 Types of Film Language

1. Cinematography

2. Sound

3. Editing

4. Mise-en-scène

5. Performance/Narrative

Componets of Cinematography

• Camera (angles, lens, etc.)

• Color

• Format

• Lighting

• Framing/Composition

Mise-en-scene

The sum of MOST elements you can see in a shot

Depth of Field

A range of distances captured within a shot mesured in terms of deep or shallow focus

Chiaroscuro

The use of strong, intentional contrast of light and shadow.

Cannon

Works that are generally considered good, important, or worth watching.

Focal Lengths

Short = Wide, Medium = Normal (35 mm), Long = Telephoto lens (flattened, volume/depth reduced)

The longer the lens, the shallower the depth of field.

Tableau Style

Approaching your composition as if it were a painting: deep focus, static/observational camera, meticulous mist-en-scene.

Scene

A scene is a unit of time measured by a scene marker (i.e., location) in a script that is interrupted by a change of location, or a new scene marker

Shot

A shot is a unit of time measured by uninterrupted frames on the screen

Take

A take is the number of times you are doing a shot (Shot 22A, take 8) in its same setup

Long Take

A shot with a longer-than- “standard” uninterrupted duration

Shot Scale

How much of the subject and their surrounding environment is visible within the frame

Silent Period

1895-1927

Sound Period

1927-now

Digital Period

2006-2010s

4 Qualities of Light

• Quality

• Quantitiy

• Direction

• Color

Pre-Narrative Cinema (the showing of moving images without focus on plot)

1891-1903

Transitional Narrative Cinema (the shift into narratives in film)

1903-1910/1917

Pure Cinema (prioritization of visual + audio storytelling over trad. dialogue and literary plot)

1920s-now, started in Paris