UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN ELECTRONIC MEDIA
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)

Semester V - Major X - Elements of Film

Duration: 3 hrs
Maximum Marks: 100
Credits: 4

Unit I

Indian (Hindi, Tamil & other languages), Film form and film History: Early Cinema (1893-1903). Development of Classical Hollywood cinema (1903-1927). German expressionism (1919-1924). French Impressionism and Surrealism (1917-1930). Soviet Montage (1924-1 930). The Classical Hollywood Cinema after the coming of sound. Italian neo-realism(1942-1951). The French New wave(1959-1964). Japanese cinema. Cinema in the third world. Contemporary trends.

Unit II

Planning, pre-production- Concept / Story development, Scripting / Screen play writing, Budgeting, Casting, Locations, Financing. Production -Shooting, Direction & Cinematography. Post production- Editing, Sound recording, Dubbing, Special effects, Graphics & Final mixing. Distribution & Exhibition.

Unit III

Misc-en-scene-Realism, the power of misc-en-scene, aspects of mise-en-scene, space and time, narrative functions of misc-en-scene. Cinematographer properti Cs- the photographic image. framing, duration of the image, montage and long take. Editing- dimensions of film editing, continuity editing, alternative to continuity editing. Sound- the powers of sound, fundamentals of film sound, dimensions of film sound, functions of film sound.

Unit IV

The concept of form in films, principles of film, narrative form, non-narrative form, dividing a film into parts and Genres (language, style, grammar, syntax).

Unit V

Style as a formal system, narrative unity, ambiguity, a non-classical approach to narrative films, space and time, disunity, form, style and ideology.

References

Thoraval, Yves(2000) The Cinema of India(1896-2000)
Roberge, Gaston: the Subject of Cinema
Roberge, Gaston (1977): Films for an ecology of Mind
Halliwell;: The Filmgoers Companion 6^th Edition
Arora: Encyclopedia of Indian Citiema
Baskar, Theodor: Eye of the Serpent