This class exists in these courses :
• Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines - Licence 2 Métiers de la Culture et des Arts - S3 - 3 ECTS

Learning outcomes

To define and
analyse the director's role in a film and how it is produced; to understand the
narrative techniques used in the cinema.

Course description

The role of light:

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Natural light

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Expressionist light

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Classic use of light – the
Hollywood method

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Realistic light – the loss of meaning
in modern use of ligh

Sound :

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The birth of the talking pictures

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Sound to convey action

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Emancipation of sound – voices
over, unsynchronised sound and picture, etc.

Production

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Definition and controversy

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Straight narrative – the American
School

alternating or parallel narrative

Expressive narrative : the Soviet School

The Koulechov effect, attraction, irregular
narrative, speed production.

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