Meaning and Response: Aesthetics Flashcards
Meaning and Response: Aesthetics: Definition
What 3 things do aesthetics refer to?
- Overall style
- Feel
- Texture
Meaning and Response: Aesthetics: Definition
Complete the sentence: To study aesthetics is to study a film as …
- An art form and to appreciate a film’s beauty and artistic merit.
Meaning and Response: Aesthetics: Process of thinking about aesthetics
What is a good two step process to think about the aesthetics of a particular film?
- To think of as many adjectives as you can to describe the film’s overall style and feel
- How elements of film form, including sound, contribute to the overall style or aesthetic of film you have just described.
Meaning and Response: Aesthetics: Process of thinking about aesthetics
What are two aspects to focus on when considering the aesthetics of a film?
- The pleasures gained from watching films
2. The artistic choices the filmmakers have made in their creation of the film’s overall aesthetic.
Meaning and Response: Aesthetics: Pleasures gained from watching a film
What are two ways that audiences take pleasure in a film? Describe each of these.
- Through narrative- audiences enjoy how a film answers questions and provides resolution and closure
- An appreciation of the art of film- certain striking scenes may be re-watched and the overall beauty of particular shots and scenes can be appreciated.
Meaning and Response: Aesthetics: Filmmakers’ artistic choices.
List and describe two types of artistic choices that filmmakers make in their creation of the film’s overall aesthetic.
- A particular style that a director is known for.
2. How the film is a part of a cultural or institutional context e.g classical Hollywood cinema.
Meaning and Response: Aesthetics: Formalism
What is formalism?
- Looks at a film’s structure and recognises the differences between the story and how it is told through the plot. This includes a focus on the formal elements of a film.
