Film review and film criticism

Topic name: Discuss Film Review and Criticism in Film.

Name: Bhatt Urvi P.

Role No. : 31

Std: M.A-2 (Sem-4)

Paper no. : 15

Paper Name: Mass Media and Mass Communication

Submitted to: S. B. Gardi Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

Gmail ID: [email protected]

History of Film

Began in the 1890s, with the invention of the first motion picture cameras and the establishment of the first film production companies and cinemas close up shots were introduced in 1900/

The first use of animation in movie was 1899.

By 1914, continuity in cinema was the established mode of commercial cinema.

What is a Film?• A film, also called a movie or

motion picture, is a series of still images which, when shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images due to the Phi Phenomenon.

• A Film is created by photographing actual scenes with a motion picture camera.

Film is

Considered to be an art form

A source of popular entertainment

A powerful medium

What is a Film Review?

• The film review is apopular way for critics toassess a film’s over allquality and determinewhether or not they thinkthe film is worthrecommending.

A good film review should

EntertainPersuade

and inform

Providing an original

opinion

A work of art in its own right

How to write a film review:

Gather basic facts about the movie

Take notes on the movie as you watch

it

Analyze the mechanics of the

movie

Watch the movie you have selected

once more

The title of the film, and the year it came

outThe director’s name

The names of lead actor

The genre

Gather basic facts about the

movie

Take notes on the movie as you

watch it

Direction

Editing Cinematograph

y

Setting Costume design

Sound system

Analyze

the

mechani

cs of the

movie

Watch the movie you have selected

once more

Pay attention to the details you

might have missed.Give your opinion

clearly about all the aspects of the movie.

Criticism in Film

Journalistic criticism

Academic criticism

Two types

Journalistic criticism

• Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the medium.

• The vast majority of film critics on television and radio have all but disappeared over the last thirty years.

• Today arts criticism in general does not hold the same place it once held with the general public.

James Agee(Time Magazine)

Vincent Canby(The New York Times)

Michael Philips(Chicago Tribune)

Some well known journalistic critics

• Many critics analyze films by their inexhaustibility, or the ranges of their impacts, their appeals on to generations of fans beyond original release date.

• A number of websites allow Internet users to submit movie reviews and scores.

Blogging

• Blogging has introduced opportunities for a new wave of amateur film critics to have their opinion heard.

• Websites like Movie- Blogger.com are now blending the gap between movie review sites.

Academic Criticism

• More often known as film theory or film studies, academic critique explores cinema beyond journalistic film review.

• These film critics try to examine why film works, how it works, what it means and what effects it has on people.

Andre Bazin Jean- Luc Godard Kristin Thompson Devid Bordwell

Some are Academic Film critics