Due to a change in the curriculum
at CDIA, this module was broken into two parts, the first two were
about production audio, this one is called, well, you can see what it's
called in the title, and it's about film studies, history and what we
call film grammar,
which is the construction of the story through camera frame, sound,
editing and everything else that goes into creating a film.
There's
a great deal that we covered, but of course I'm going to talk about all
the interesting things. Genres are discussed briefly, we review some
films, such as Manhunter that demonstrate how to build suspense, not as easy as you think.
For some reason I use an analogy of Impressionism vs Jackson Pollock and then from there move into the horror genre, specifically zombie movies such as Night of the Living Dead, Shaun of the Dead and 28 Days Later.
There's a number of guidelines for judging the value of such movies as Heat and Memento like intention, 30 degree and 180 degree rule, misdirection and the concept of filmmaker as Auteur.
For
a number of reasons I've divided the week into two episodes. The next
one will be about screenwriting and how important the formatting of the
document is.
