Question: Tips: Question: How can I read a film from different perspectives? TIPS: Reading or interpreting a film is an important skill in English. When you first see the film, the most obvious interpretation will be to read the film literally, as the director wants you to see it. For example you might read it as a story about love or a story about a detective or a story about soldiers at war. However, a film is a created work of art and if you look more deeply into the film, there are many ways you can read it.
*A note on grading: your essay will be partly graded according to the usual basic standards of good spelling, punctuation, grammar, sentence structure, and organization. Most importantly, though, you should keep in mind that this is a critical essay. As such, you are asked to develop and explain your opinions, raising questions and making observations that you believe help the reader or viewer understand the films more completely. Keep in mind that a “critical” essay does not require you to be “negative” in all your opinions; certainly you can point out and explain what you think are the strongest and most interesting features of the films in question. In critical essays, some of the most important features for the writer to develop are: critical insight (non-obvious ideas or observations that you believe may assist the viewer or reader in “discovering” the films more completely and complexly); originality (putting your own personality and “voice” in your writing); and credibility (your ability to convince the reader that your ideas are sound and interesting).
Also, different camera angles and moving camera impart help the film to express and act in a particular way. The brief sequences of shots also lets audiences experience characters’ mind and allow them to realize characters’ felling. Therefore, film form help audiences participate in characters’ thinking process and see the characters development. Moreover, the film form help creating dramatic tension, explicating information and implying some meaning in the shots to make possible that shape audiences’ experiences. To have a brief summary, film form including the colour schemes use in the film, the sounds, the filming angles, the length of shots, the movement of the camera and so on which cooperate together to shape an audience’s experience about particular genre of
The structure of a film has a great impact on the reaction from the viewers. There are two main aspects of a film that make it have the reaction from audiences. One is the director style which contains everything the directors choose to do to make the film flow like a book. There are directors who are known as auteurs. This is when people brainstorm on film ideas of their own and basically does everything from writing the script and picking their own actors to supervising the writing to make sure it is to their standards.
All throughout the world, authors have used different forms of illusion and symbolism to irate a deeper and more thorough idea or theme. Many authors will use the bible and the theme of good and evil to help give the readers a more sympathetic character or reason of thinking. This use of symbolism is a great way to better understand ideas put forward in a novel, and in many cases helps these novels become a great read. Many novels chosen for a curriculum for students are chosen for the fact that they have many areas of literary topics or ideas and have a plethora of writable attributes such as symbolisms. In the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, biblical illusion is used to support the idea of McMurphy as a Christ-like figure.
Within many literary works and films the author implants different symbols that stand out to the reader or the viewer and last in their minds throughout the entire story. A symbol by definition is an object that has both literal function and deeper meaning. In the movie, A Lesson Before Dying, there are a few symbols that stand out to me such as the globe, the radio, and the notebook. The globe first presented itself in the classroom when Grant Wiggins went to visit Vivian in her classroom and she explained to him what her children had been doing and the different places they told her they wanted to go. That was one of the first times you heard Grant say he wanted to leave just as soon as he could get out he was going to leave and he wanted to take Vivian with him.
To end this "tangent" of how I truly felt about the movie, I would like to focus in on the good parts of what really the story was about. That story was to focus in on the students who were in need of education, and not the typical reading and writing portion, but also the education of confidence, happiness, and well-being of the students. The one part I took away from both the film and the book is that once again one man can change a young group of students. To finish off the reaction essay, I would like to answer the last question that was asked, about how I saw a portion of the film and how I really saw it in my mind. I wanted to focus in on one portion when beanpole and his friend are in his room, and the detail of the leaky roof, the wobbly desk, and the bed without a mattress really allowed me to materialize in my mind what I thought of this tiny room.
Beatrice Asuaa Theory of Knowledge November 20th, 2012 So as you started to read my essay about which Ways of Knowing do I think is most reliable, how do you know what you are reading right now Mrs. Duffy? You know this because your senses tell you. You are reading this essay with your eyes, which is your sight, you feel that you are sitting on a chair, which is your touch, and you hear the sound of loud students roaming around in the hallway. Theory of Knowledge is a class I actually enjoy coming too and is not because its an “easy A” as some may say but is because TOK requires you to think about and reason out things we normally do not do in our daily lives. For example, when I get up to get my day started, I do not think about the how strongly certain people in New York felt about Ground Zero and what it meant to them but being in TOK gave me a better view of the situation.
When watching a movie you can see and hear the details, where as when reading a book you are able to imagine them, and create the pictures in your head. 3.) While writing a book the author only has to imagine it and write it down, but when making a movie the director, producer, and screenplay writer gave to work together to create the scenes, make the special effects, and of course find the perfect actors/ actresses for each major and minor roles. 4.) There is also a considerably more amount of money involved in making a movie.
Throughout the studies of I have read I have learned a lot about the different styles. In my reading from The Center of New Discoveries in learning (2012) I discovered that I am more of a Visual learner. It is where you prefer to think in pictures or movies. You would rather want to create or recall images when you read. Also from Penn State (2010) it stated that I was more of a Visual leaner.