Audiovisual languaje

Audiovisual language is a communication system that integrates visual and sound elements.

Let us distinguish three languages: cinema, TV and new technologies / internet

1. Cine/ movies language.  

   Structure

   • Frame: each impression made on photographic negative film
   • Framing
   • Points of view
2. TV language
3. New technologies / internet language

Genders:

• entertainment programs
• documentaries
• informational programs
• Advertising
• Movies / series (long films and short films)

BACKGROUND AND ORIGIN OF CINEMA.

History of cinema. We will see a documentary on the background and beginnings of the invention of cinema.

The History oWe will see how in prehistoric times paintings were already being made with an interest in creating a sensation of movement. Later on, in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, scenes full of narrative and movement were created in their iconography. In China with shadow theatres and later in Europe with the magic lantern, stories were recreated using projections and shadows. With the invention of photography and retinal persistence, the first inventions appeared (zootrope, praxinoscope, thaumatrope and finally the Lumiere Brothers patented the cinematograph in 1895.
 https://youtu.be/PFCGJhB94Go

 

 Cinema- Silent Era

Silent Cinema

Georges Melié gives it a more creative and playful character (Trip to the moon 1902).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxB2x9QzXb0

Nosferatu (1922) by F.W. Murnau

Alice Guy-Blaché was the first woman to be the director of a fiction film, laying the foundations of what in the future has been considered cinematographic fiction.

Griffith, an American film director. Considered the creator of the American model of cinematic representation, he is considered the father of modern cinema (The Birth of a Nation 1915).

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUORlBV1tmA

The sound film was born in 1927 and was the first film to synchronise sound to picture.

Colour cinema was the "vanity fair" in 1935.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=a-P_Ira6kgE

Other pioneering blockbusters were "Gone with the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz" in 1939.

The film industry has been developing steadily, the production of new super productions and creative development has been increasing. Inventions such as TV, the video camera, computers, digital formats, the internet, interactive platforms, etc. have led to a growing interest in the audiovisual world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD-yoKPRdhA


Film Stages and Movements

Film stages and movements are a series of characteristics that filmmakers or film directors give to their films in accordance with the historical-artistic stage, scientific and social developments.

The different stages are:

-Early cinema

-Mute or silent  Cinema

-Avant-garde cinema (surrealist, German expressionism, futurist...)

-Soviet cinema

-Sound films

-Classic cinema

-Italian Neorealism

-Nouvelle Vague

-Free cinema

-New Hollywood

Elements and resources of narrative and audiovisual language

Just as verbal language is full of resources for good communication, film language is very rich in narrative resources.

Some of the resources are : camera angles, sequences, types of shots,  movements, transitions...

About time: Shot, scene, sequence > Ellipsis, flashback, flash forward, parallel

 Camera shot types are general designations given to different shots so that Filmmakers can more easily communicate and understand each other when discussing what the camera is capturing for a given shot.

About format, scale, angles

(Shots and angles you can see them in the lesson)

 

 

+Info:

http://aprendemosdecine.blogspot.com/2014/04/unidades-narrativas-del-lenguaje.html

https://es.slideshare.net/mmuntane/lenguaje-cinematogrfico-8438988

 

 https://historiadelcine.es/por-etapas/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3764Amr2vfY