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Reading the Moving Image - Week One Lecture Notes ('Run Lola Run'…
Reading the Moving Image - Week One Lecture Notes
Course Info
Aim
To develop our
critical thinking
so that we might create better projects, and to develop our
inter-disciplinary team working
skills
Outcomes
Analyse techniques
Cinematography
Mise-en-Scene
Editing
Sound
Apply these techniques
Structure
Weeks 1-4
Define the Key Elements of the Moving Image
Assessment: Visual Analysis
Weeks 4 - 8
Analysing the Language of the Moving Image -
Storytelling and Genre
Assessment: Research Essay
Weeks 8 - 12
Using the Language –
Ideological
Assessment: Group AV Project
The Language of the Moving Image
Common to All Mediums
Sound
Narrative and Stylistic Elements
Storytelling and Framing
Environments
Characters
Differences Between Mediums
Production
User Input and Interactivity
Semiotics
The study of the signs and symbols in literature and their interpretation
Sign = Signifier =
Denotative
meaning (what it actually is)
Meaning = Signified =
Connotative
meaning (what we make of it)
'
Run Lola Run
' (1988) by Tom Tykwer
Mise-en-Scene
Punk Exploration
Class vs. Image (Settings vs. Character)
Colour Red
Clocks, etc.
Editing
Rhythmic Editing
Fast cuts to increase tension
Split Screens
Freeze Frames
Cinematography
Angles – High angles (looking down on the subject) and Low angles (looking up)
Red-tinted fantasy scenes
Black and white flashbacks
Framing Characters (Boxes, etc.)
Mobile Frames
Hand held video vs 35mm Film
Semiotics
Red hair = Grunge culture
Spiral = One entrance, one destination
Boxes = entrapment
Circles = Fate and Time
Dominant Red = Lust, wanting, urgency, energy
Manni as a Cross = Ending
Gambling = Chance and Fate
Converging/Diverging/Crossing Paths = Choices for Lola to Make
Clocks (a prevalent, salient image) = Time and its pressure on Lola
Other Motifs
Genre
Gangster Film
Road Movie
Multiform Plot
Tykwer advocates that it be viewed in a linear fashion (see
Running in Circles: Form in ‘Run Lola Run’
)
‘Full length music video’ – soundtrack/MTV
Sound
Driving techno
‘
What a difference a day makes
’ song
The Scream
‘
The Red Drum
’ – an anti-nazi film
The scream is a large cultural image in Germany
Lola vs. Fascism?
MTV
Silence
Theory of Cinematography, Mise-en-Scene, Editing and Sound
Cinematography
Technical Elements
Lenses
Film Stock
Camera
Lighting
Aesthetic Elements
Camera Angle
Framing
Duration
Distance
Movement
Mise-en-Scene
The composition of a scene
Setting
Props
Lighting
Costumes
Makeup
Figure Behaviour
Note: Everything in a scene has influence on the audience
Editing
Determines the Relationship between Shots
Continuity Editing
Parallel Editing (Cross Cutting)
Montage
Jump-cut
Sound
Special Effects
Music
Silence
Dialogue
Diagetic (intrinsic) vs Non-Diagetic (extrinsic)