Category: Film Analysis

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The final sequence of Antonioni’s Il grido. Began as documentarist in this region, interested in landscape earlier features were melodramas, here returns to Po valley, last film before famous trilogy: L’avventura, L’eclisse, La notte(1960-63). Antonioni’s first color film, Red Desert (1964) sealed his reputation as a high modernist, a reexamination of same topics as Il grido,…

In the beginning of the film, the working-class Parondi family has just migrated to Milan from southern Italy. Unable to stay with the oldest son and his Milanese in-laws, they relocate to a housing project. IMAGE SHOT DESCRIPTION ANALYSIS Editing: shot#1 fade in (can’t see it in this clip) Cinematography:…

EXAMPLES OF FILM ANALYSISClick on the links below to see extremely rudimentary examples of shot breakdown and close analysis of sequences from various films. You should aim to go beyond these examples in the precision and cogency of the analyses in your assignments. Rocco and his Brothers (Rocco e i suoi…

Section I – Sound Editing Sound in the cinema does not necessarily match the image, nor does it have to be continuous. The sound bridge is used to ease the transition between shots in the continuity style. Sound can also be used to reintroduce events from earlier in the diegesis. Especially…

Section 1 – Devices a) TRANSITIONS The shot is defined by editing but editing also works to join shots together. There are many ways of effecting that transition, some more evident than others. In the analytical tradition, editing serves to establish space and lead the viewer to the most salient…

Section 1 – Quality This section explores some of the elements at play in the construction of a shot. As the critics at Cahiers du cinéma maintained, the “how” is as important as the “what” in the cinema. The look of an image, its balance of dark and light, the depth of…

Mise-en-scene The representation of space affects the reading of a film. Depth, proximity, size and proportions of the places and objects in a film can be manipulated through camera placement and lenses, lighting, decor, effectively determining mood or relationships between elements in the diegetic world. Section 1 – Decor An important elememt…