Film Analysis

Big 5 Analysis

• Content and theme
• Audience and purpose
• Context
• Formal and structural conventions
• Style: tone, mood, setting, atmosphere, linguistic choices
• Literary devices
• Generic devices
• Contextual assumptions
• Cultural assumptions

Generic Conventions of Films

• Background, mid ground and foreground
• Music and sound
• Camera angle
• Lighting
• Cuts
• Entrances and exits
• Setting
• Colors
• Attire
• Props
• Characters – multi-nationality, multi-linguism, exposition +resolution, plot construction (rising action, climax, falling action)
• Dubbing and editing

Sound

• Sound bridge
• Sonic flashback (voicepver o f a previous scene, used to portray emotion)
• Non diegetic sound: sound that characters can hear and react too
• Direct sound: recorded during the filming of the scene (can include edited and unedited class sound)
• Internal diegetic sound: the thoughts of the character that the audience can hear.
• Non-simultaneous sound: sound that is played from an earlier or later scene of a movie
• Offscreen sound: sound produced off screen
• Postsynchronized sound: sound recorded in the studio
• Sound perspective: used to identify the location of a sound using its timbre, amplitude