1. >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving (1819) Sleepy Hollow Tim Burton (1999)

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5. Knickerbocker : The fiction of Irving's history is that it was written by a Diedrich Knickerbocker

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7. Note the deliberate “silent movie quality” of the beginning of the film… - In the absence of a narrative voice, emphasis on “camera-telling”…

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10. Thick red liquid dripping onto a parchment….. Bec the audience expects the film to be a horror film, they automatically think the liquid is blood…. Seeing this image makes the audience assume someone has been murdered or at least injured. View that triggers questions: who does the blood belong to? has someone been killed?‘, etc. As the audience will want these questions answered, they will continue to watch. However, a little later, we realize that the “dripping blood” is nothing more than sealing wax dripping onto a page... This does not prevent the theme of blood from being continued or recycled throughout film

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12. To superimpose To superimpose : to place something such as a transparent image on or over sth else, often with the result that both things appear simultaneously, although one may partially obscure the other…

13. >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> DISSOLVE A transition between 2 shots during which the 1 st (gradually) disappears while the 2 nd image (gradually) appears; for a moment the 2 images blend in superimposition. Dissolves can be used as an editing device to link any 2 scenes, or in more creative ways, for instance to suggest hallucinatory states. (= a perception of objects with no reality usually arising from disorder of the nervous system, or in response to drugs…)

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16. N.B. : a superimposition does not necessarily signify a transition from one scene to another. The technique often used to allow the same performer to appear simultaneously as 2 characters on the screen to express subjective or intoxicated vision, or simply to introduce a narrative element from another part of the narrative into the scene.

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20. VOICE OVER (or ) subjectivitynarrate VOICE OVER (or off-camera or off-stage commentary) When a voice (often that of a character in the film) heard while the spectator sees an image of a space & time in which that character is NOT actually speaking. Often used to give a sense of a character's subjectivity or to narrate an event told in flashback. A common & useful device, to express a character's thoughts

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28. A feather pen scribbles down words on a blank sheet of paper. A name is signed. The paper is sealed and then put into a briefcase…

29. >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> close-up SETTING (Reader p.87) The man holding the briefcase – now in a fast-moving carriage pulled by fiercely pulling horses – is taken across a desolate landscape plunged in fog marked by dead crops. Gloomy countryside, bleak colors... Creation of a particular (Gothic?) atmosphere… The close-up on fast wheels : reinforces the impression of acceleration… (time).