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Characteristic of Filmmaking

09.05.2010  |  No Comments ››

Since the early days, movies followed 2 major styles: Realistic & Formalistic Realism – attempts to duplicate the look of reality; tries to keep things looking ...

Cinematography

08.10.2010  |  1 Comment ››

Cinematography Look of a film and its relation to the story depend on the collaboration between the director and the cinematographer Storyboarding – individual frame drawings of ...

What is Documentary Film?

07.18.2010  |  No Comments ››

“You photograph the natural life, but you also, by your juxtaposition of detail, create an interpretation of it” – John Grierson. The term nonfiction film is ...

Mise En Scène

07.12.2010  |  1 Comment ››

Characteristics: Mise En Scène implies how the visual materials are staged, framed, and photographed. The frame’s aspect ratio: dimension of the screen’s height and width. Was originally ...

Narratology and Story-making in Film

04.26.2010  |  No Comments ››

Two types of fictional narratives Mimesis (showing) Diegesis (telling) Diegesis is used by film critics to describe the fictional world created by a films narration Narratology is the stuffy ...