Brief introduction of proposal
Translator's preface: "If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools."
Foreword: Let yourself unfold in the movie.
Part I Film Art and Production
Chapter one: Film is art: creativity, technology and business.
The art of destroying flowers with hard hands
Film technology
A machine that creates hallucinations.
Deep parsing: finding patterns
Shooting: film production
Screenplay and fund-raising stage
Preparatory cutting
Shooting stage
Combination stage
In-depth analysis: words and titles in film production
Artistic influence of production process
Film production mode
mass production
Labor exploitation and independent production
Small scale production
Enlightenment from different production forms
In-depth analysis: the fusion of film negatives and digital films
Bringing movies to the audience: distribution and screening
Problem: Power Center
Film and non-film screening
Artistic influence of distribution and projection
conclusion
Extended reading
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The second part of the film form
Chapter II The Importance of Film Form
The concept of film form
Form is the system.
form and content
Formal expectation
Practice and experience
Form and emotion
Form and meaning
comment
The principle of film form
function
Similarity and repetition
Differences and changes
develop
Unity/disunity
conclusion
Extended reading
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Chapter III Narration is a formal system.
Principle of narrative structure
What is narrative?
Plot and story
causality
time
In-depth analysis: playing with story time
space
The pattern of opening, ending and plot development
Narration: story flow
The scope of the story content
The depth of the story content
Narrator
Summarize the narrative
Classic Hollywood movies
The Narrative Form of Citizen Kane
Overall Narrative Expectation of Citizen Kane
The Story and Plot of Citizen Kane
Causality in Citizen Kane
Time in Citizen Kane
Motivation in Citizen Kane
Parallel Contrast in Citizen Kane
The Plot Development Model of Citizen Kane
Narrative in Citizen Kane
conclusion
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The third part of the film style
Chapter Four Shots: Scene Scheduling
What is scene scheduling?
realism
The power of scene scheduling
Elements of scene scheduling
scenery
Clothing and makeup
lamplight
Performance: action and performance
In-depth Analysis: A Toolbox for Movie Actors
Overall performance: scenes in space and time
space
time
The Narrative Function of Scene Arrangement —— Taking the movie Our Way of Hospitality as an Example
conclusion
Extended reading
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Chapter V Lens: Photography
Photographic image
Tone range
The speed of the movie
Spatial perspective relation
Depth Analysis: From Monster to Mortal: Computer Synthetic Images of The Lord of the Rings
shoot
Area and shape of scene frame
Indoor painting space and outdoor painting space.
Angle, level, height and distance of the frame.
Dynamic scene frame
Image duration: long shot
The role of long lens
Long shots and dynamic scene frames
conclusion
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Chapter VI Editing: The Relationship between Shots
What is editing?
Characteristics of film editing
Graphic relationship between lens a and lens b
Rhythmic relationship between shot a and shot b
Spatial relationship between lens a and lens b
Time relationship between shot a and shot b
Continuous editing
Spatial continuity: 180 line
Continuous editing in maltese falcon
Continuous editing: several key points
Further: through the action axis
Cross editing
Time continuity: sequence, frequency and length
In-depth analysis: compact continuous editing: Los Angeles confidential and contemporary editing
Editing methods other than continuous editing
Other possibilities of graphics and rhythm.
Discontinuities in space and time
The function of discontinuous editing: October
conclusion
Extended reading
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Chapter VII The Sound of Movies
The power of sound
The basic elements of movie sound
Perceptual characteristics
Selection, change and combination
Characteristics of film sound
rhythm
loyal
space
In-depth analysis: voice-over and visual point of view: cash exchange in dangerous contact
time
The Role of Movie Sound: Prison Break
Fontaine's dictation
Sound effects and narration
Sound theme
music
Examples of sound paragraphs
conclusion
Extended reading
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Chapter 8: Summary: Style is a formal system.
Style concept
Style and film director
Style and audience
Analyze the film style
Step 1: Determine the organizational structure of the film.
Step 2: Identify outstanding skills.
Step 3: Find out the pattern of the whole film technique.
Step 4: Put forward the function and formation of these skills.
The Style of Citizen Kane
conclusion
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The fourth part of the film types
Chapter IX Film Types
Understand the type
Type definition
Analysis type
Type history
In-depth analysis: contemporary genre: crime thriller
Social function of type
Three types
Western movies
horror film
Music (film)
conclusion
Extended reading
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Chapter X Documentaries, Experimental Movies and Cartoons
documentary
What is a documentary?
Types of documentaries
The difference between documentary and drama
Types of file forms
Classification type
Strategic type
experimenting film
Formal categories of experimental films
Abstract type
associated
cartoon; comic
A model of narrative animation film: Crazy Duck
An example of experimental film: Mount Fuji
conclusion
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The fifth part is a summary of film analysis.
Chapter 11 Film Review: Case Analysis
Classic narrative film (feature film)
Friday girl
North by northwest
Do what you have to do.
Narrative choice of classic film shooting techniques
exhaust
The story of Tokyo
Chongqing express
The Form and Style of Documentary
The man with the camera
The Thin Blue Line
Form, Style and Ideology
Meet St. Louis
Raging Bull
Appendix: Film Analysis Review Writing
Prepare for writing
Step 1: Develop an argument that you will explain and prove in your article.
Step 2: Make a segmentation analysis table of the film.
Step 3: Pay attention to the outstanding skills in the film.
Organization and writing
conclusion
Examples of analytical papers
Extended reading
This chapter analyzes the DVD information of sample movies.
Part VI Film History
Chapter XII Film Art and Film History
Early films (1893 ~ 1903)
The development of classic Hollywood movies (1908 ~ 1927)
German expressionism (19 19 ~ 1926)
French impressionism and surrealism (19 18 ~ 1930)
impressionism
superrealism
Soviet montage movement (1924 ~ 195 1 year)
Classic Hollywood movies after the introduction of sound technology
Italian neo-realism (1942 ~ 195 1 year)
French new wave (1959 ~ 1964)
New Hollywood and Independent Production
Contemporary hong kong films
Extended reading
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Important vocabulary
Name comparison table
Film name comparison table
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