Texts, Contexts and Culture.
The Shock Of The New
Ways of Seeing
Class Etiquette
No Facebook
No Reddit
No 4Chan
No Porn
Study Purposes only
Feel free to ask questions, no idle chatter.
Anyone disrupting the class will be given one warning then be asked to leave.
Be Punctual
Im in Group B
Louis Heaton
Lecturer, Film and Television(Middlesex Uni, Winchester Uni, UCA)
Studied Drama and Film at Manchester Uni
Student Filmmaker (Camera, Editing, Director)
National Film and Television School
Film Critic and Arts Reviewer
Documentary Producer/Director
Independent Film Producer
Special Editions Producer, Criterion DVD
1895 Birth of cinema Train
The Seven Samurai
Text is referring to what we are studying (Individual tv programs)
Term 1 (8 Sessions) weeks 2 - 8 --Mise En Scene, Cinematography, Editing, Sound and Documentary
Outcome - Students should be able to critically analyse and discuss the use of these subjects in their own and others films.
Term 1 - Weeks 8 - 10
Understanding Genre - Analysis of narrative and aesthetic Archetypes, codes, conventions (and cliches) of tv's most enduring and popular formats.
The Sitcom (situation comedy) - Screening and discussion of BBC comedy pilot, Vodka Diaries
The Soap Opera - Screening and discussion ofThe BBC's longest running soap, Eastenders
Crime DramaScreening and discussion of the ITV Police Series, The Bill
Review
Presentations
Students will form groups of 3-4 people. All are to make a contribution on the content and verbal delivery.
Week 3 deadline for group formation
each group will select a TV Programme to analyse for its use of these elements, 10 Mins.
Clip must not exceed 3 mins.
Discuss the artistic and technical merits
Powerpoint - Prezzi - Keynote
10th and 17th
Film Art
Bordwell & Thompson
Key Critical Theories
Alienation - To feel or be separated because of differences, to be alienated.
Realism - the quality or fact of representing a person or thing in a way that is accurate and true to life.
Classicism - the following of ancient Greek or Roman principles and style in art and literature, generally associated with harmony, restraint, and adherence to recognized standards of form and craftsmanship, especially from the Renaissance to the 18th century. the following of traditional and long-established theories or styles.
Expressionism - a style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express the inner world of emotion rather than external reality.
Gender/Race - To be judged or acted again due to gender/Race/sexuality racism,sexism, homophobia
Gaze Theory - Where someone looks, a man could stare at the stars to show wonder, or at his shoes to show submissiveness
Ideology - a collection of beliefs held by an individual, group or society. It can be described as a set of conscious and unconscious ideas which make up one's beliefs, goals, expectations, and motivations.
Modernism - a movement towards modifying traditional beliefs in accordance with modern ideas, to evolve from the past
Post Modernism - almost the reverse of modernism, where a person goes back to traditional ways, such as a carpenter only using hand tools rather than drills and electrical equipment.
Semiotics - the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation.
Surrealism - a way of "releasing the unconscious imagination" pieces of art which are irrational and illogical.
The other - a critical contextual theory we use to examine issues of 'otherness' or 'the alien' in film and television. Typically it is linked to ideas of representation, race and xenophobia: literal fear of 'the outsider'. But it can also examine symbolic representations: for example, sci-fi and horror films which use the 'hidden alien' or parasitic disease as a metaphorical manifestation of 'the other'.
The uncanny - When something is different but strangely familiar, a theory called the uncanny valley shows that humans dislike something that looks almost real, such as a lifelike doll, yet will like a robot or a something that is obviously not human.
Psycho Analysis - Psychoanalytic criticism adopts the methods of "reading" employed by Freud and later theorists to interpret texts. It argues that literary texts, like dreams, express the secret unconscious desires and anxieties of the author, that a literary work is a manifestation of the author's own neuroses.
How to be a filmmaker
Read - A LOT
Watch - A LOT
View - As much as possible, with a critical eye
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