Activities
Mood Boards
Moodboards can be an important tool to communicate what the final film should look and feel like. This will help the entire team visualize their goals. By compiling images, colors, textures, and other...
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Hana-Bi
Hana-Bi was created for a Music Video project, but is an excellent example of how to tell a story and evoke feeling through film language alone. The film seems to suggest that the main character is trapped...
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SCAMPER
SCAMPER is a brainstorming technique often used by designers and artists to iterate and/or develop an idea. SCAMPER is an anagram that stands for Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify, Put to Another Use,...
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Foley Sound
- David Lynch Foley sound is a central element in the art of sound design. Named after sound effects pioneer Jack Foley, foley design refers to the creation of sounds that reproduce and mimic sounds that...
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Film Sound: Types of Sound
↵ We might start distinguishing dialogue from music. Or Diegetic from non-diegetic... but then we can ask more questions about the sound... is it internal or external? Empathetic or Anempathetic? What...
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Themes & Thematic Statements
When we talk about theme, we're often referring to the central idea or message that a story aims to convey to its audience. We might look at a film and say that its about identity or belonging or justice. ...
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Match Cuts
A match cut is a seamless transition between two shots that creates a visual or conceptual connection, often linking completely different scenes or elements. Be sure to check out our match cut lesson...
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Blocking & Staging
Instructing how the actors move is primarily the role of the director. How the camera moves is primarily the role of the cinematographer. How the actors and camera move together can be an important opportunity...
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Film Analysis Flowchart
The analysis flowchart is meant to help create a visual understanding of how analysis builds meaning towards the themes and cultural contexts of a film. This flowchart is not meant to be a guide on how...
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Film Theory
Film Theory explores the relationships between films, the contexts in which they were made, and the audience who watches them. Film theory can be viewed as inherently political because it often involves...