The language of film making -1

We have verbal language, that we use to communicate,

There s English

French

Music

Brail

Street signs

Similar for films we use visual language to communicate.

Movies that portray these language clearly:

Irma La Douce

Prixe de beaute

Requilm for a dream

Shooting / sound / editing

Is specifically what we are dealing with and we are consciously using the visual language while we are working with these.

Shooting:

grammar of shot

Mise en scene

Off screen / on screen

Shot: 1 uninterrupted clip of film

a. Distance

1. ELS: extreme long shot

2. VLS: Very long shot

3. LS: Long shot

4. MS

5. MCU

6. CU
7. BCU

8. ECU

9. Cowboy

More movies to watch

FAUST

DIR NIBELUNGEN

DANGEROUS LIAASSONS 1988

QUEEN CHRISTINA