英语影视欣赏课件 narrative and style..

Science fiction
Film Noir: rainy cityscapes
Framing: the use of architectural features to “frame” an action and imbue it with added significance.
Windows: signify the possibility of an intrusive gaze from outside, or vice versa.
Verisimilitude/R ealism
Sound:
Create mood, feeling for the theme or the audience
function
example
Suspense
Question for discussion
What are functions of subplot in some films?
Style of Film
Setting Framing Sound and Lighting Costume Symbols
Lecture Two
Narrative and Style
Presented by Jerry
Narrative
Narrative/Story/Plot
The Basic Stories
Narrative Structures Restricted/Unrestricted Narration
Produced in 1990
Tristan: Medieval Legend
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Question for discussion: what and how does Titanic combines a number of basic stories?
• Romeo and Juliet (a boy meets girl, gets girl, then loses girl) • Tristan (Rose is already engaged to be married) • Cinderella (Jack from a impoverished background, but his goodness and talent are recognized by Rose. )
Restricted Narration : withhold information from the audience
function example
Curiosity and surprise
Unrestricted narration: audience know more information than any character

Setting: the background of a particular scene
function Generic consideration function verisimilitude function Expression of overall mood, subjective mood of a certain character, symbolic values
Similarity
Compositions of actions/events
Differences
Narration: A chain of events in cause-effect relationships occurring in time and space Story: All the events that we see and hear, plus all those that we infer or assume to have occurred… Plot: All the events that are directly presented to us, in books, in films…
Doors: entrances and exits, and also potential barriers to movement, can signify choice.
Mirror: self-examination
Identity Crisis
Diegetic: Occurs in the fictional world of the film
Difference between Plot and Story is like:
Story
Plot
Difference between Plot and Narrative is Nhomakorabeaike:
Picture 1+2=plot Picture2+3=narrative
Basic Stories----Archetypes
Achilles’ fatal flaw: Achilles Heel
Spiderman’s fatal flaw: His girlfriend’s capture
Cinderella: Dream Comes True
Jane Eyre
Faust: Marlowe’s Doctor
Romeo and Juliet
1. Classic Three-Act Structure
Act Act I
Act II
Time 0-30 mins
30-90 mins
Function Set-up
Development (Conflict and Confrontation)
Act III 90-120 mins Resolution and Denouement
2. Hero’s Journey Structure
Call to Adventure Journey through unfamiliar world Supreme ordeal Reward Return and Reintegration into society (This structure always for Myth/legend)