Film Theory Lectures 1,2,3

Film Theory 1 Lecture Notes

From the notes i took in the first film theory lecture i have found things like, Hitchcock is a big figure in early film making (i have looked at him in more detail in another blog) he used things like the dolly zoom   (Hitchcock zoom) he created feelings of vertigo with mechanics new to films and he was interested a lot of the time in his films in creating shock to the audience, also suspense, and is also known for liking blondes playing characters in his films and them having a sexual or metaphoric meaning within them.

Other points were brought forward in the lecture which interested me like that birds are meant to be harbingers of doom, and are used in many of Hitchcocks films.



Film Theory 2 Lecture Notes

My notes from the second lecture show i understand things like the new wave of cinema were primarily in Britain and France, and were about things like life in paris and they used actors that were just normal people. I also understood the mechanics that were used in films like spaghetti westerns for example The Good The Bad and The Ugly (1966), the mechanics used in this film were a good use of montage, cutting, use of eye shots, fragments of the body.






Film Theory Lecture 3

Film lecture 3 was about cinema and how films were considered 'not the art of scholars, but of illiterates' - Werner Herzog. It was about how cinemas became a social gathering rather than a quiet sensible place, especially in italy around the 1970s.