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* Film and Movies class
Study Questions, Test
We study only art applications to film and theatre -- composition, color, line, etc.
For more illustrations, go to Costumes (Tara's site) This page and directory related to Film Directing More on film grammar @ Film-North (I recommend to go to Theory and Semiotics). SummaryFilm is the VISIBLE MIND. Film is TIME ARCHITECTURE!time on stage and screen QuestionsDramatic sentence and visual sentence?thr331 2007 class -- HomeworkBring in class your pix (any) and explain the composition (why it caught your attention). [ best shots ]NotesThought = f(Emotion)[ film.vtheatre.net 2007 -- to use 200x files ? ] ... sound and picture ...
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Now we know HOW art operates and we can understand that film more than any other art uses our ability to understand in order to produce feelings and the final effect on us in our subconscience!The Point of View concept is better developed on my Film-Pomo Guide-Page (Deep Theory, not required for this class).
Film is an extreme art: patatheatre -- the teatricality of our rutine existance in postmodern conditions. no static pictures and music/sound in constant dynamic relations with the visuals! Read Debord "Society of Spectacle" (1969), I follow his idea.
The paintings by Klimt (1907)
Drama as a structure of conflict and its visual expression is making "invisible visible." Reality to express our inner reality (feelings and thoughts) is shaped in themes (myths and stories); see Script Analysis. We need language and it grammar to communicate with each other, but the language our reflects our communality of the experience. 
Reality - Forms (Mediums) - Themes - Ideas/Emotions - Us Remeber that the main point of humanism is INDIVIDUAL (Self = You) and "I" is the center of the artistic chronotope (universe as evolving time-space). ...Film&Drama (archive page)
DIRECTORIES, PAGES
Rules of the languageFront Page and DIRECTING200X Art:
If you go through the images from ART.COM (From Leonardo to Dali), one trend becomes obvious -- art moved into a zone of the subjective. Styles of this process have many names -- impressionism, expressionism, dada, abstract... but one thing remains: artist himself not the world is the subject.
If first artists (pre-history) discovered the world (animals mostly), soon we realized that Man is the center of the world, bout only in the late modernity this focus find the only man, the world of an individual. History of Fine Art from portrait as genre sees the transformation of method-subject: I do not paint myself, but the world the way I see it. [...]Next: Intro
Eisenstein : Montage.101