Lots of good in depth textual analysis of film language from Yale university
http://classes.yale.edu/film-analysis/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFUKRTFhoiA
Film language Analysis hwk
BOYZ IN THE HOOD
This clip is excellent for all the areas you have studied up until now - symbols, denotation and connotation, narrative, representation and audience. It is also great for DISTINCT. Write an intro on these for Boyz in the Hood and then:
Please analyse in terms of how camera, mise en scene, editing and sound give meaning to this clip.
More acronyms!
Camera - FAM
Mise En Scene - CLAMPS
Sound - McDoved
Editing - STOPS
Watch the first six minutes and apply your knowledge of camera, sound, editing and mise en scene to textually analyse the clip and the meaning that it created.
Consider:
- the symbolism in a lot of the shots
- sound / music, dialogue and sound effects
- what is the clip saying about race, how?
- what have these children seen that you wouldn't expect them to have seen at their age?
- How does the shot go from street to classroom?
- what are the pictures on the wall?
Matrix opening sequence consider:
- colour, binary oppositions, male/female - good vs evil
UP Consider how they show the passage of time, sound, mise en scene and camera.
CAPE FEAR - camera and mise en scene
FINAL FILM OPENINGS 2016
