Metaphor 1

Question 1

Magic box (visual trick)

Answer 1

television or cinema screen where it brought audience to alternate realities-captivate the audiences. French magician and filmmaker: A trip to the Moon(1902)

Question 2

The montage of attractions

Answer 2

Montage is fundamental in cinema. Sergei Eisenstein- developed it from theatre art. ‘any aggressive moment to produce emotional, psychological, ideological shocks to the audience’

Question 3

Kino-Eye

Answer 3

former soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov adopted the notion and set of techniques in his documentary Man with a Movie Camera (1929). Veretov means of capturing what he believed as “inaccessible to the human eye”. Using newsreel footage and montage techniques.

Question 4

Painting Brush/ Camera Pen

Answer 4

Alexander Astruc developed Camera Pen theory(1948). Camera functions similarly to writer’s pen in literature. Role of camera as a tool for storytelling and expression. Writers- pen evoke emotions on paper. Filmmaker- camera compose shots and visual images

Question 5

Mirror

Answer 5

Jacques Lacan. Pscyhoanalytic concept of mirror stage into film studies (1950s-1960s). Influenced by the work of Sigmund Freud focuses on the relationship between individual’s sense of self and their perception of reality.

Question 6

Connotation

Answer 6

the technical elements in the foundational level of film language include the camerawork, sound and editing elements.

Question 7

Denotation

Answer 7

narrational and narrative elements relate to storytelling- narrative structure, plots and subplots, character and character relationship, causal effect.