Chapter 1 Looking at Movies

- cinema language ( the combination of methods, strategies and skills that filmmakers choose to convey the central message and the main ideas that they're trying to tell) -> invisibility

- cultural invisibility

- explicit meaning v.s. implicit meaning

    (surface)

    plot summary            sth less obvious, arguable

                                      that conveys a "message" or "point"

- formal analysis : focuses on film form (cinematography, editing, sound, design)

  cultural analysis : assumptions, mores, and prejudices (gender, class, race, ethnicity, nationality, age,...)

- cutting on action -> ending the first shot in the middle of a continuing action and starting the next shot at some point further along in the same action

Brandon explains "cutting on the action" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVZkAg8Nwqg

Chapter 2 Principles of Film Form 

-phi phenomenon (wikipedia)

The phi phenomenon is the optical illusion of perceiving a series of still images, when viewed in rapid succession, as continuous motion. 

- verisimilar -> has the appearance of truth 

Bartholomew's Song (IMDb)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2TI6IV5_3U

Death to the Tinman (IMDb)

https://vimeo.com/60850548

- literature -> verbal art

  film -> visual art