FILM STUDIES

 Varieties of film and filmmaking (Hollywood 1930-1990  comparative)  PRE-SCREENING NOTE Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn 1967) Genre: crime drama - based on real events and characters  Begins - still photography, suggesting documentary  like approach / realism Stars and stardom: Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway.  Beatty also influences the script.  Picking up a biopic and running it through cinema.  Protagonists are the villains.  NEW DEPARTURE IN HOLLYWOOD Thematically Chronologically Evident that controversial subject-matter would not have passed the high censorious standards of the Hays Code.  (Now reformed as the Moving Picture Association of America in 1964).  CONTROVERSIAL ELEMENTS Taboos - sexually. Clyde and Bonnie run off together (not married). Opening sequence, Bonnie seen as a sexual woman, close ups.  Violence - often thought to be the most violent closing sequence in Hollywood.  CONTEXTS Production cont...

 The Gunfighter: Kissac 2014 - Long shot at the start of the cowboy.  - A narrative. adds comic relief to a tense situation. The characters can hear the narrative.  - Ominous diegetic music.  - Panning camera angles.  - Slow zoom ins.  - Tackling important representations.  - Comic timing.  - The lighting is most of the time a spotlight on the cowboy, presents him as the "hero".  - Mise-en-scene, conventional to the western aesthetic.  - Very unconventional and personal compared to average western genre.  Swimmer: Ramsay 2012 - Tense non-diegetic sound, mimics an increasing heartbeat, successful in creating an ominous aesthetic.  - Black and white, film noir.  - Fabulous long shots of the location.  - Vintage music.  - Slo-mos.  - Fast pace editing at the time of attack.  - A point of view.  The Grandmother: Lynch 1970 - Monotonus vibrations.  - Stop motion - Diegetic sound of splashing and sq...

  ELEMENTS OF FILM FORM IN SHORT FILMS:   Wasp   -         Arnold, 2003. -         Forward tracking shot.  -         Handheld camera. -         Fast pace editing in the fight scene.  -         Zoom ins of faces. Close up.  -         Montages of the area. -         Extreme long shot, motorway.  -         Extreme close up, interchanging edits of their faces.  -         Small children in a pub car park, contrast.    “Wasp”, made in 2003 and directed by Arnold, clearly portrays the deprivation and chaos within the lives of a single mum and her family of 4 children. The micro-elements of the short film a successful in creating an emo...