Movie Lover’s Guide to Film Language, A

Synopsis: A general introduction to film language and five "lessons" covering the major elements of cinematic language: LIGHTING, CAMERA, MISE EN SCENE, SOUND and EDITING. For each of these lessons there is a short overview to introduce the lesson and its film clip, which consists of an "original clip" of a scene from a classic film. This is followed by an "instructional clip" that shows the same scene again but with synchronised voice-over commentary about the use of film language it illustrates. The movie scenes come from recognized film classics such as: Carol Reed’s The Third Man (lighting), Buster Keaton’s The General (camera), Fritz Lang’s M (mise-en-scene), Sergei Eisenstein’s Alexander Nevsky (sound), and Alfred Hitchcock’s Sabotage (editing). With interactive menus, the programme allows students to go directly from the introduction, to any of the five lessons, to supplementary information about the classic films or to the glossary of film terms used in the programme.
Language: English
Country: United States
Year of release: 2005
Year of production: 2003
Subjects: Media studies; FE
Keywords: cinematography; feature films; film and video production techniques; film editing; lightning; film studies; sound recording

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