Answer each question individually
Answer each question individually.
1. How does a film’s editing contribute to its success or failure? What is the relationship between a finished film and the tempo the editing creates? How does editing create a film’s rhythm?
2. Objects, people, and ambient sounds can make up a film’s sound effects. How do these contribute to the film? Identify a film in which objects, people, and ambient sounds were convincing. Can silence be considered a sound?
3. Can you discuss some more recent films that are in keeping with David Puttnam’s philosophy of “shaping values”?
4. What are the key principles a cinemtographer uses when he or she shoots a feature film? Are they different from those principles used for other forms of film like docunemtaries?
5. What is the most salient element you take from Hitchcock’s editing philosophy as he expresses it in this interview?
6. What is the essential device Eisenstein uses to create montage that conveys more than dialogue or still pictures alone? Can you think of an example of montage from a film you know (besides Psycho )? How is it similar to or different from Eisenstein’s example?
Film Studies
Shawshank Redemption
1994
1. Identify aspects of cinematography in your selected film. Discuss them in terms of how they affected your viewing experience; in other words, did the art of cinematography add value to your experience? If so, how? If not, why not?
2. Identify aspects of sound in your selected film. Discuss them in terms of how they affected your viewing experience; in other words, did the art of sound effects add value to your experience?
If so, how? If not, why not?
3. Identify the type of music in your selected film. Discuss them in terms of how it affected your viewing experience; in other words, did the score or songs add value to your experience?
If so, how? If not, why not?
4 . Identify the types of editing in your selected film. Discuss them in terms of how it affected your viewing experience; in other words, did the different types of shots and framing add value to your experience?
If so, how? If not, why not?
5. How do these exercises connect the study of film to real-world experience? Additionally, in what other ways do films have cultural value? Explain and defend your opinion. Your response should be at least 50 words in length and written in complete sentences.
