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FILM STUDIES: Sunset BOULEVARD

FILM STUDIES: Sunset BOULEVARD. We need two volunteers to come up and read parts of a scary story.  The first person will start and will read the story with the lights off. The next person will the next story with the lights on. . REMINDERS.

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FILM STUDIES: Sunset BOULEVARD

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  1. FILM STUDIES:Sunset BOULEVARD We need two volunteers to come up and read parts of a scary story.  The first person will start and will read the story with the lights off. The next person will the next story with the lights on.

  2. REMINDERS • Turn in homework/class work from yesterday (Rosebud Journal). • Bring toys for Toy Drive. • Any final questions about Citizen Kane? • Remember: If you are planning on coming in after school to re-watch a part of the movie, let me know after school so I can stay! • Absent work: due tomorrow.

  3. SUNSET BOULEVARD NOTES • Take notes titled Sunset Boulevard Notes. • Remember, keep them in your binder. I will collect them at the end of the semester so make sure to keep your binder organized!

  4. SUNSET BOULEVARD NOTES (DON’ T TAKE NOTES ON THIS SLIDE) • Characters: • Norma Desmond = an aging, former silent movie star. She is wealthy, living away from society and refuses to believe that she is not a star anymore. • Joe Gillis = a young screenplay writer for films (with sound) who has come upon financial hardships. • Max = Norma’s butler • Betty Schaefer = a young woman in the film industry who wants to work with Joe on a screenplay.

  5. SUNSET BOULEVARD NOTES • Lighting: (notes, please…) • Film Noir = a genre that uses dark, moody atmosphere to reveal the often violent or mysterious events taking place. • Sunset Boulevard is a film noir that effectively uses lighting to help tell it’s tale.

  6. SUNSET BOULEVARD NOTES • Lighting: • Low-key lighting = emphasizes shadows and pools of light; there is a strong contrast between light and dark areas of the shot--used often in atmospheric thrillers, horror or noir. Creates a sense of mystery, gloominess or fear.

  7. SUNSET BOULEVARD NOTES • Lighting: • High-key lighting = bright, even lighting and few shadows; little contrast between the light and dark areas of the shot--used most often in comedies or musicals. Suggests happiness/safety.

  8. SUNSET BOULEVARD NOTES • Lighting: • Side lighting = When a subject is only half-lit, the other half still in darkness . This may be suggesting uncertainty, untruth, or self-division.

  9. SUNSET BOULEVARD NOTES • Lighting: • Back lighting = Lighting a subject from behind. This tends to create silhouettes. An obstruction in front of a light source, leaving the figure in shadowy darkness, disrupts the viewer’s sense of safety, inciting fear and apprehension.

  10. SUNSET BOULEVARD NOTES • Lighting: • Spotlighting in this movie is also symbolic. Pay attention to the scenes in which Norma is put in the spotlight and what the spotlight is suggesting about Norma, about the world she lives in, etc.

  11. SUNSET BOULEVARD NOTES • Shot type: close-up • Close-up shots usually directs the audience to understand important emotions of certain characters (emotions that we wouldn’t see/focus on if the camera were further away). • Try to find out what the close-up shots are trying to tell us about the characters.

  12. SUNSET BOULEVARD NOTES • Shot type: Long shot • figures are more prominent, but the background still dominates. We learn about the setting • the Long Shots help the audience understand location and surroundings, showing the spatial relations among the important figures

  13. SUNSET BOULEVARD NOTES Composition • Emptiness = an empty mise-en-scene may suggest emptiness (spiritually, emotionally, socially, etc.).

  14. SUNSET BOULEVARD NOTES Composition = the amount of people and props in a particular scene. • a cluttered mise-en-scene may suggest the chaotic nature of the film’s action; in this film, it sometimes suggests fullness of life/happiness (opposite of emptiness).

  15. SUNSET BOULEVARD NOTES FRAMING • internal framing: the suggestion of being trapped by using an object (such as a doorway or window frame) to symbolically “confine” a figure.

  16. SUNSET BOULEVARD NOTES SYMBOLISM: When an object or action represents something else (an idea, an emotion, etc.) • In this movie, the lighting is symbolic, the framing is symbolic, the colors are symbolic, the details are symbolic, etc. • everything isn’t randomly chosen, but each detail shows something important about the characters.

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