bible+culture 2015: media 2. film analysis
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Film Analysis
3 Dimensions of Art
Beauty
Goodness
Truth
5 dimensions of engagement
Aesthetic
The world of sounds, the world of forms, the world of tints, and the world of poetic ideas, can have no other source than God . . .
. . . and it is our privilege as bearers of his image, to have a perception of this beautiful world, artistically to reproduce it, and humanly to enjoy it.
Abraham Kuyper
Emotional
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The moving image stirs our emotions rather than engaging our minds.
Ingmar Bergman
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Each fictional world creates a unique cosmology and makes its own ‘rules’ for how and why things happen within it. No matter how realistic or bizarre the setting, once its causal principles are established, they cannot change.
Robert McKee, Story, p. 70
Intellectual
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[Works of art] are not simply the oozings of subconscious impulses; they are the result of beliefs and goals on the part of the artist.
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Surface see it as entertainment
Middle realise that there is a message
Deep realise traces of worldviews
5 worldview dimensionshumanity
reality knowledge
ethics redemption
Moral
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We must recognise ‘ways in which movies either illuminate our world and our lives with glimmers of transcendence or cast shadows of brokenness and alienation.’
Gordon Matties
• Does the film deal with life with integrity?
• Does it ask the right questions about life?
• To what extent is the moral behaviour in the film consistent with biblical morality?
• What stance does the film take towards the moral behaviour it portrays?
Spiritual
Spirituality concerns how humans relate to reality – to themselves, to each other, to the world around them and (most importantly) to ultimate reality – via their worldview beliefs, concomitant attitudes and subsequent behaviour.
Peter S. Williams
Despite our constant talk about the lordship of Christ, we have narrowed its scope to a very small area of reality. We have misunderstood the concept of the lordship of Christ . . .
. . . over the whole of man and the whole of the universe and have not taken to us the riches that the Bible gives us for ourselves, for our lives and for our culture.
Francis Schaeffer
Reading a Film
Meaning
mise en scène montage(editing)
dialogue
soundtrack
actors’ performances
Space Timecinematography
Indicators of significance
lighting
focus
point of view
looks
motifs
repeated words
sounds
music
Mise en scène
locationset layout
blocking(positioning of actors)
set design
props
costumes
focus
choice of lenspoint of view
balancelighting
camera movement
Whose point of view does the camera represent?
Are particular visual elements used as symbols, metaphors,
or pointers?
Editing
• Selecting best takes
• Shots cut and reassembled to create scenes
• Scenes assembled into sequences
• Sequences arranged into the final film
My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And I do that by manipulating, by how and where I cut and what success-ion of images I work with.
Walter Murch
simple cuts
dissolves and wipes
match cuts
cross-cutting
jump cutsmontages
How does the film’s editing contribute to the meaning of
the film?
Films as narrative
Characters
What choices do the characters make? Why?
How do the main characters change?
What do they discover?
Structure
goals
What causes the major turning points?
Why does the film end this way?
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