A Window to Different Worlds

ART OF FILM
FILM PRODUCTION
• A new breed of Filipino directors were brave enough to direct films
that portrayed revolt, labor unionism, social ostracism, and class
division.
THE DIRECTORS OF THE NEW WAVE
• The directors of the New Wave either “tented toward exposing
relevant social topics or hybridizing Filipino topics with Western
techniques.
• Alternative film more independent filmmakers are products of film
schools were students are exposed to art films without “the
compromises of commercial filmmaking” .
THE DIGITAL MEDIA IN NEW WAVE
• With the coming of digital media in the late 90s and early 2000s. A
new Wave in digital art form emerge. The high definition format came
with the digital age and made it possible
FILM APPRECIATION
• According to Feldman (1981) offers a typology, a set of concepts to
direct the viewer’s attention to the principal elements in the cinema
experience. Its purpose is to suggest the range of qualities within
each element of film.
TYPOLOGY OF CINEMATIC FORM
• The typology should assist you in describing and analyzing the film
experience before proceeding to interpret and judge it. This device
should enable you to attend to all sources of imaginary in the cinema-
visual, aural, kinetic and verbal- while endeavoring a fathom their
interaction and overall meaning.
 IMAGE (MEDIUM)
VISUAL COMPONENTS TEXTURE Rough-smooth, hard-soft, wet-dry
SHAPE Round-pointed, organic-geometric
SIZE Large-small. Exaggerated-reduce
FOCUS Blurred-artificial, strong-weak
COLOR Pale-intense, warm-cool, earth—sky
SPACE Shallow-deep, defined- unlimited

DRAMATIC COMPONENT SOUND/MUSIC Emotive-descriptive, faster-slower

LANGUAGE/DICTION Spoken-recited, lyrical-literal
PERFORMANCE/REPRESENTATION Naturalistic-stylized, accurate-subordinate
MONTAGE/ EDITING Continuous-interrupted, parallel-diagonal
TIME Swift-slow, cinematic-chronological

LITERARY COMPONENT OBJECT Whole-fragment, quality-thing

PLACE Open-closed, now-then, familiar-exotic
EVENT Many-few, probable-unlikely, verbal-visual
SEQUENCE Linear-simultaneous, logical-irrational
PLOT Simple-complex, narrative-poetic
SYMBOL Personal-collective, realistic-abstract,
spectacular-didactic.

IDEA (MEANING)