1. The Participative Experience and film part 2
Bell ringer: Explain what a musical score is.
THE PARTICIPATIVE EXPERIENCE AND FILM
The Participative Experience and film part 2

2. FILM PART 2………
Cinematic realism makes it easy for us to identify with actors who represent our values
Ex: Forrest Gump, tom Hanks plays what seems to be a mentally defective person, but he is good at heart and positive in his thinking- Gump is an unlikely hero primarily because he is trusting, innocent and good hearted.
Our Participation with film is often virtually involuntary.
Most people lose their sense of place and time in a movie
Ex: Black Orpheus (1958) shot in Rio, the intense colors, Latin music and the dynamics of the carnival produce an imaginary or virtual reality so intense and vital that actual reality seems dull by comparison

3. Audience experience continued….
We imagine ourselves as James Bond or swept of our feet in a romance film or happily ever after in a relationship.
This is also known as escapism films
Second- Participation with film is involuntary—highly engaging.
Third- Audience identifies with actors in film; film imitates life.
Forth- Films of value-classics-humanize us through their structural excellence
It may be that we naturally identify with heroes in films as we do in books
There are 3 kinds of participative experiences with film
One is not principally filmic in nature and is represented by a kind of self indulgence that depends upon self justifying fantasies

4. THE FILM IMAGE
Watching a film closely can help us perceive much more intensely the visual worth of many of the images we experience outside film
For example, someone walking in a jaunty, jumpy fashion with his feet turned out, like Charlie Chaplin.
The starting point of film is the moving image.
Many experts agree that no other artistic medium can move us so deeply perhaps because the moving images imitate life so thoroughly.
*We rarely perceive static images except when viewing such things as paintings or phot0s
Movement occurs when the eye cannot see the black lines between frames
The Participative Experience and Film
1. Participation with film is involuntary—highly engaging.
2. Audience identifies with actors in film; film imitates life.
3. Escapist films: we identify with actors to insure self importance and to avoid the despair of an all-too-painful reality.
4. Films of value-classics-humanize us through their structural excellence

5. All the eye sees is the succession of frames minus the lines that divide them for the eye cannot perceive separate images or frames that move faster than 1/30 of a second
This is called the language of the camera
Many early filmmakers composed their films by adding single photographs to each other, frame by frame
THE FILM IMAGE
The still frame and the individual shot are the building block of film
Because of the language many filmmakers both early and contemporary attempt to design each individual frame as careful as possible

6. The Language of Film the birds eE.T. casablanca Movie clip
A clockwork orange
Dirty dancing
Star wars
The godfather