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Diegetic vs. Non Diegetic Audio
Diegetic sound
• Sound that comes from the diegesis
• Dialogue
• Music from story source
• Ambient sounds
Non-Diegetic Sound
• Soundtrack Music
• Voiceover
• Exaggerated Sounds
Text
Something that people produce to or modify to communicate meaning
films photographs paintings news articles operas t-shirts-bumper stickers
Intentional/and Unintentional text in the movie “Crash”
What was the movie’s intention overall?
Feel Good Movie?
Some critics see portrayal of a Persian as racist
Sources
Screenplay :settings, actions, dialogue, structure
Shooting Script: used during filming, scene numbers, shots, camera placement use
Storyboard: series of drawings/photos for each shot, brief notes, a rough draft
Screenplay Samples
http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/ castaway.html
http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/blood_simple.html
In transforming experiences into scenes in a screenplay the following might happen:
Certain experiences may not be included
Experiences may or may not be included in the script
Events may be rearranged
Experiences may be altered
New scenes without corresponding experiences may be added
Writer’s Territory
Settings Subjects (Character’s actions and dialogue) Structure (arrangement of dialogue and events) Meanings: (What the film says about its subjects in general terms, or, more often, what it implies by showing subjects in particular situations.)
Production Personnel
Casting and Performance Cinematography and Mise en Scene Editing Music and Sound Effects
Independent vs Hollywood
Rarely are there Writer/Directors in Hollywood
A screenwriter will sell his/her script and not have very much say about the end product in Hollywood
Positive Tendencies from Script to Film
More concise less reliant on dialogue more visual
storyboard
Storyboard: series of drawings/photos for each
shot, brief notes, a rough draft Helps the director/cinematographer
visualize shots
Extremely important for animation
History Films?
Are they non-fiction or do they make fiction seem more real?
“JFK” Oliver Stone 1991
November 22, 1963 Assassination
Lee Harvey Oswald charged with murder and
then assassinated by Jack Ruby.
The Warren Commission investigated the
matter
Many people still remain unclear about the
causes of his death
JFK Documentary/ Narrative
Movie uses real documentary footage
documentary like footage dramatized chronological events Makes reference to actual events
Presents one theory
Jack Valente, NY Times 1992
Stone Blends the half true, and the totally false to manufacture the plausible
(1995) Robert A. Rosentstone in Visions of the Past: The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History writes: Despite documentary like elements this film is a Hollywood Drama (heroic main character played by Kevin Kostner--playing Jim Garrison)
Another is the desire of the director to make the viewers see believe what they see in the theater as the truth
Mainstream films utilize a specific form of film language that--a seamless one of shot, editing, and sound designed to make the screen seem no more than a window onto the unmediated reality
Hollywood Films: beginning, middle, end. Emotional response-- a moral message w/ a progressive view of history
the story is closed, completed, and ultimately simple--Alternative viewpoints are not shown
History(in film) is a story of individuals-- usually historic individuals who do unusual things for the good of others if not all human kind
historical issues are personalized, emotionalized, and dramatized for film appeals to our feelings as a way of adding to our knowledge or affecting our beliefs