Introduction to Course and instructor. Course expectations. Film language tools. Movement as first tool for Film Language. Assignment: Catch the Motion exercise. Screening of first 48 minutes of The Story of Film: An Odyssey, with Forum assignment.

We will examine movement as a fundamental and expressive tool in film language.

we will screen movement exercises and examine Murnau's film Sunrise for how movement is used as an expressive tool.

We examine frame as an expressive tool in film language within the film Sacrifice by Tarkovski

We will look at narration and point of view theory, examining clips from the film Marketa Lazarova to illustrate how POV helps audience to believe that what they are seeing has really happened.

Composition

Composition exercises are screened (sent in advance to Professor. Link is submitted on NEO.) Then class proceeds with discussion of shot sizes introduced through partial screening of Zefferelli's Brrother Son, Sister Moon

Miidterm test taken in class. Questions relate to tools already examined - movement, frame, POV and composition.

Shot Sizes - we will explore how different shot sizes fulfill different functions in film language. Angles & Axis in film language. Shot size exercise is assigned. Due in two weeks.

Narrative Rules. The Red Balloon (LaMorisse, 1958) screened for narrative structure.

We explore how filmmakers work with color as expressive tool for dramatic storytelling.

We will screen the exercises made to examine the use of shot sizes. angles/axis and simple narrative rules

Written Test (lectures on Shot Sizes, Axes and Angles, Narrative theory and Color).