Movie Reflection – Assignment 3

You will be required to relate your reflection to the course material for the given week that the assignment is scheduled for. Be sure to use specific details and relate to your readings and/or external sources. You will submit a 1-2 page reflection for each movie clip (APA Format- make sure you have a title page, abstract and citations).

Movie: https://youtu.be/9TjxvA4kjwM

Chapter 5: Almost universally, filmmakers regard editing as the decisive phase of production, giving a film its distinct shape, organization, and emotional power. There is, however, no single way to cut a scene or a film. Continuity editing is the predominant approach used in the narrative cinema. It established a coherent and orderly physical world on screen, despite variations in the camera’s placement and angle. The rules that deal with screen direction and matched visual elements are essential means of creating this coherence and order. Continuity errors occur when mismatched visual elements violate the perceptual constancies that a viewer looks for in the world represented on screen.

Chapter 6: Though moviegoers may not be explicitly aware of sound design, its contribution to film cannot be overstated. The next time you watch a favorite movie, turn off the sound and see how impoverished the pictures become. Without sound, a movie loses much of its emotional impact. Sound design works with the three types of sound-dialogue, music, and effects. Dialogue in film tends to be either voice-over narration or character speech. Sound effects are created using Foley techniques or more elaborate electronic manipulations as part of a comprehensive sound design. Music in film tends to be composed within a late romantic style, whose musical conventions and range of coloring are familiar to most moviegoers.