Film Analysis and Visual Literacy

7 Novembro 2018, 08:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

An introduction to vertents through which film can be analysed at an academic level as presented in Timothy Corrigan's A Short Guide to Writing about Film: 
The of narrative aspects of the film can be examined through: national cinema, film history, genre,, autheur and ideology - all of which can also be applied to literary analysis.
However, analysis of visual aspects requires visual literacy. Introduced student to the components of visual literacy with exemplification.
We then watched the opening sequences of Sarah Polley's  Away from Her. Then  showed films still from these sections which students analysed using visual literacy analysis techniques. Discussion of how these still fortell the whole story and prepare the viewer for what they will see.