Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Film Distributors' Association
The course enabled learners to come to a deeper understanding of how a film viewer makes sense of what they see on screen through the examination of contexts that surround film making and the main concepts that guide our understanding of film – genre, narrative, aesthetics and spectatorship. Learners were asked to consider how films are constructed through a process of selection and combination of formal filmic elements in the development of film narratives.
5 weeks, 3 hours per week
Andy Leyson
Chief Executive Officer - Film Distributors Association
Film Distributors' Association
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Apply your learning to a range of film extracts.
- Compare the different ways in which filmmakers convey meaning on screen
- Reflect on the ways in which film stories are constructed.
- Develop a of critical thinking, aesthetic appreciation and production of knowledge by analysing and interpreting films.
- Explore, identify and interpret the meaning of camera angles, sound and mise-en-scène using film extracts.
- Discuss the genre of a film and interpret and evaluate its use.
- Investigate important elements of the narrative of selected film extracts (e.g. characters, conflict, narrative, story, plot, key scenes
- Compare the function and effect of different narrative forms and structures.
- Describe important rules of shot composition and their effects.
- Evaluate the importance and impact of individual elements of the mise-en-scène, and their interaction in various settings and sequences
- Identify and interpret the acoustic design of a film
- Reflect on the particular importance of editing as a fundamental filmmaking element through close-reading of film sequences
- Debate the various issues surrounding the idea of film viewing and spectatorship.
Syllabus
- The ways in which film creates meaning
- How we as members of an audience understand what is happening on screen
- How a filmmaker uses such things as mise en scene, framing, sound and editing to create both meaning.
- The ways in which filmic narratives are constructed. The idea of a film.
Issued on 26th November 2023
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