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Teaching English Literature and Culture through Films
> DOCENTI < Prof.ssa Chiara Battisti - Dott.ssa Anja Meyer |

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Teaching English Literature and Culture through Films

3. Why Study Film
in the Classroom?

4. Why Study Film in the Classroom?
1. To understand the basic tools and conventions of the medium;
2. to interpret literature, especially the classics;
3. the same habits that a good reader brings to a written text
are those that a critical viewer brings to a visual text
Students should become active interpreters
of texts (both written and visual)

5. WHAT?
The language of movies (Shot sizes, camera angles, light, music, storytelling…)
Film theories;
From novel to film: the process of adaptation, kinds of narration;
Analysis of movies relating to english and popular culture, works of literature and trauma studies.

6. ABC OF CINEMATIC LANGUAGE

7. SHOT: the basic unit of a movie;
ABC OF CINEMATIC LANGUAGE
SHOT: the basic unit of a movie;
FRAMING: the way the object will be positioned by the director within the shot

8. Camera Moves: the camera’s movement within the shot
ABC OF CINEMATIC LANGUAGE
Shots can be analyzed focusing on:
Shot sizes: distance between the camera lens and the subject being photographed
Camera angles: where the camera will be placed in relation to the subject.
Camera Moves: the camera’s movement within the shot

9. Extreme close-up (ECU)
1. SHOT SIZE
1. SHOT SIZES:
Extra Long shot (ECL)
Long shot (LC)
Medium Long Shot (MLS)
Mid-shot (MS)
Close-up (CU)
Extreme close-up (ECU)
Wide (long) shot (often establishing shot)
Low angle shot
High angle shot

10. 1. SHOT SIZES: Extra-long shot (ELS)

11. 1. SHOT SIZES: Long Shot (LS)

12. 1. SHOT SIZES: Medium Long Shot (MLS)

13. 1. SHOT SIZES: Medium shot (MS)

14. 1. SHOT SIZES: Close-up (CU)

15. 1. SHOT SIZES: Medium Close-up (CU)

16. 1. SHOT SIZE
1. SHOT SIZES: Extreme close-up (ELS)

17. The King’s Speech (2010, Danny Cohen)4 3 6 5

25. 1. SHOT SIZE
2. CAMERA ANGLES:
a. Eye-level angle
b. High Level
c. Low Level
d. Dutch tilt

26. 2. CAMERA ANGLES: Eye-level angle
1. SHOT SIZE

27. 2. CAMERA ANGLES: Low angle
1. SHOT SIZE

28. 1. SHOT SIZE
2. CAMERA ANGLES: High angle
Matilda (1996)

29. 2. CAMERA ANGLES: High angle vs. Low Angle 1. SHOT SIZE
“M” , Fritz Lang (1931)
13.26 – 14.06

30. 2. CAMERA ANGLES: Ditch tilt (or German angle)
1. SHOT SIZE
2. CAMERA ANGLES: Ditch tilt (or German angle)

31. Pan (side to side) Tilt (up to down) Dolly Track Zoom Crane shot
1. SHOT SIZE
3. CAMERA MOVES:
Pan (side to side)
Tilt (up to down)
Dolly
Track
Zoom
Crane shot

32. from left to right or viceversa
1. SHOT SIZE
3. CAMERA MOVES: Pan
- horizontal movement of a camera
from left to right or viceversa

33. 1. SHOT SIZE
3. CAMERA MOVES: Tilt
- up or down movement/vertical movement of the camera
while the camera itself does not move.

34. (camera moves forwards and backwards) 1. SHOT SIZE
3. CAMERA MOVES: Dolly
(camera moves forwards and backwards)
1. SHOT SIZE
Camera operators race alongside a speeding chariot on a dolly
during the filming of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000).

35. 3. CAMERA MOVES: Traking
(camera moves side to side)
1. SHOT SIZE
- A tracking camera follows a line of action;
mounted on a wheeled vehicle that runs on a set of tracks
the camera is moved sideways, parallel to an object. ;

36. 1. SHOT SIZE
3. CAMERA MOVES: Zoom
The zoom is a lens and permits to shift a focal lens;
the camera doesn’t move, but the use of a zoom lens gives the illusion of motion;
Drawing focus on an important person/object;

37. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QijbOCvunfU
1. SHOT SIZE
Example: “Atonement” (2007) – Dunkirk Scene
5 minutes single take tracking shot;
Many things happening in one scene only;
The spectator becomes a voyeur;
It creates a sense on confusion and panic;
Link:

38. 1. SHOT SIZE
3. CAMERA MOVES: Crane
- Significan Crane Shot from: Gone with the Wind (1939)
- ground near the Atlanta railroad station to reveal the hundreds of Civil War dead

39. To sum up:
1. SHOT SIZE