Film Analyze

Answer each of the questions as completely as necessary. The responses should be at least 300 words per question in total (Question 1, for example, should be at least 300 words all together) — you may need to write more for some of the questions. Post the midterm below — spell and grammar check before posting your responses.
Don’t plagiarize.

Film List:
Clouds of Sils Maria
Tangerine (Sean Baker, 2015)
The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg, 1998)
The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2008)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma, 2019)
8 Women (Francois Ozon, 2002)
Parasite (Bong Joon Ho, 2019)

Unit 2: Film Productions / Low Budget Filmmaking / Film Form and Meaning
Unit 3: Principles of Film Form / International Film Movements: Dogme95 / Analyzing Form
Unit 4: Parts of the Narrative / Classical Hollywood Cinema / Film Theory
Unit 5: Non-Classical Narratives – Critical Approaches
Unit 6: Aspects of Mise-en-scene: Realism, Formalism, and Meaning
Unit 7: Acting and Mise-en-scene

Question!!!
1.
a) Describe the process of making a film? What are the four stages, and what is involved in each? (300 words min. in total for all parts of question 1)
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b) What is the difference between Explicit and Implicit meaning?

1) Explicit:
Example from a film:

2) Implicit:
Example from a film:

2.
Describe the Five Principles of Film Form (as described in the online class Units > not the book) that help create unity in a film, giving specific EXAMPLES from ONE of the films you viewed since the beginning of the semester (300 words min. in total for all parts of question 2)
First, describe what the form of a film is:

1) Principle:
Example from a film:

2) Principle:
Example from a film:

3) Principle:
Example from a film:

4) Principle:
Example from a film:

5) Principle:
Example from a film:

3.
Film Narrative: (300 words min. in total for all parts of question 3)
a) What is meant by Classical Hollywood Narrative Conventions? Provide FOUR characteristics (as described in the class Units) using films you viewed since the beginning of the semester as examples.

1) Convention:
Example from a film:

2) Convention:
Example from a film:

3) Convention:
Example from a film:

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