Component 1 section C - British Film

6th September 2018 



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Narrative theories

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Sound in Film

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Music   Non - Diegetic - doesn't happen on screen - Voice over - Additional music/ soundtrack/ score - hyper real - exaggerated like a heartbeat Diegetic - within the diegesis of the film - Dialogue - Ambient sound scape - Background sound Diegesis - the films world Diegetic audience - an audience within a film Contrapuntal sound - music that clashes with the onscreen action, creating a particular effect on the audience Music - rhythm - instrumentation - harmonies - tone/key - major key = happy - minor key = sad - timbre = mood of piece (kind of) - whats the spectator response     - crescendo and diminuendo - Pitch - high or low - Dynamics - big/small     soft/harsh             - musical motif - short repeated pattern of music - leitmotif - a reoccuring theme throughout associated with a particular person or idea - voice over gives to much exposition - can help us to emphasise with a character e...
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Sets HW

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Sets Frit lang FW Murnau Tim Burton - Expressionist (German expressionism) - Naturalism Expressionism in film - Originated in Europe in the 1920's - Artistic genre seen as rejection of western conventions such as the wealth gap and capitalism - Depicted a widely distorted reality E.g Metropolis 1927, Fritz Lang - German Expressionist film critiquing western capitalism, depicting a surreal world where the working class literally live and work below the upper class who live in the glorious utopia above, built by the oppressed working class who work tirelessly. This is all seen through the love struck son of the architect of the utopia, who witnesses the injustices the working class endure. F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu 1922 - German Expressionist horror film and take on Dracula, extremely influential and just a tad anti semitic - heavy use of shadows to set gloomy and gothic mood Tim Burton - Uses german expressionism in his films in a modern way - He uses dark styl...
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