Diegetic vs. Non Diegetic Audio

1. Diegetic vs. Non Diegetic Audio

2. Diegetic sound • Sound that comes from the diegesis • Dialogue • Music from story source • Ambient sounds

3. Non-Diegetic Sound • Soundtrack Music • Voiceover • Exaggerated Sounds

4. Text Something that people produce to or modify to communicate meaning films photographs paintings news articles operas t-shirts-bumper stickers

5. Intentional/and Unintentional text in the movie “Crash” What was the movie’s intention overall? Feel Good Movie? Some critics see portrayal of a Persian as racist

6. Sources Screenplay :settings, actions, dialogue, structure Shooting Script: used during filming, scene numbers, shots, camera placement use Storyboard: series of drawings/photos for each shot, brief notes, a rough draft

7. Screenplay Samples http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/ castaway.html http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/blood_simple.html

8. In transforming experiences into scenes in a screenplay the following might happen: Certain experiences may not be included Experiences may or may not be included in the script Events may be rearranged Experiences may be altered New scenes without corresponding experiences may be added

9. Writer’s Territory Settings Subjects (Character’s actions and dialogue) Structure (arrangement of dialogue and events) Meanings: (What the film says about its subjects in general terms, or, more often, what it implies by showing subjects in particular situations.)

10. Production Personnel Casting and Performance Cinematography and Mise en Scene Editing Music and Sound Effects

11. Independent vs Hollywood Rarely are there Writer/Directors in Hollywood A screenwriter will sell his/her script and not have very much say about the end product in Hollywood

12. Positive Tendencies from Script to FilmMore concise less reliant on dialogue more visual

13. storyboardStoryboard: series of drawings/photos for each shot, brief notes, a rough draft Helps the director/cinematographer visualize shots Extremely important for animation

15. History Films? Are they non-fiction or do they make fiction seem more real?

16. “JFK” Oliver Stone 1991November 22, 1963 Assassination Lee Harvey Oswald charged with murder and then assassinated by Jack Ruby. The Warren Commission investigated the matter Many people still remain unclear about the causes of his death

17. JFK Documentary/ NarrativeMovie uses real documentary footage documentary like footage dramatized chronological events Makes reference to actual events Presents one theory

18. Jack Valente, NY Times 1992 Stone Blends the half true, and the totally false to manufacture the plausible

19. (1995) Robert A. Rosentstone in Visions of the Past: The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History writes: Despite documentary like elements this film is a Hollywood Drama (heroic main character played by Kevin Kostner--playing Jim Garrison) Another is the desire of the director to make the viewers see believe what they see in the theater as the truth

20. Mainstream films utilize a specific form of film language that--a seamless one of shot, editing, and sound designed to make the screen seem no more than a window onto the unmediated reality

21. Hollywood Films: beginning, middle, end. Emotional response-- a moral message w/ a progressive view of history the story is closed, completed, and ultimately simple--Alternative viewpoints are not shown History(in film) is a story of individuals-- usually historic individuals who do unusual things for the good of others if not all human kind

22. historical issues are personalized, emotionalized, and dramatized for film appeals to our feelings as a way of adding to our knowledge or affecting our beliefs