film review and film criticism
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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