With traditional film, what we see as a continuous moving image is actually a linear progression of still photos on a single reel that pass through a lens at a certain rate of speed and are projected ...With traditional film, what we see as a continuous moving image is actually a linear progression of still photos on a single reel that pass through a lens at a certain rate of speed and are projected onto a screen. In it Griffith presents a narrative of the Civil War and its aftermath but with a decidedly racist view of American blacks and the Ku Klux Klan.
The collected materials within this chapter look to introduce the concept of ‘cinematic language,’ a way for us to better understand and make sense of how films communicate meaning and emotion to us.
'Seeing Cinema, Writing Cinema' - a guided short-response assignment which has students experiment with cinematic analysis using a clip of their choosing.
A multimedia reading from Russell Sharman introducing the concept of cinematic language and providing terminology and frameworks for students to approach cinematic work.
‘Cinematic Language Scene-a-palooza’ - a whole-class activity where students engage with curated selection of film clips and explore them through guided questions.
