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Pans - City =  Kevin - Fish = Ideology/ narrative  Micro features:  . Sound  . Editing  . Cinematography - lighting (Excluded from cinematography)  . Mise en scene  _________________________________________________________________________________ Narratives:  . Three act structure  . Hero's journey  . Todorov - Equilibrium  . Propp - Character types  . Levi Strauss - Binary opposition  . Oedipal trajectory  Ideology  . Feminism - male gaze (Laura Mulvey) - sexualising women (objectification), female director, passivity of Mia, Rape/sex scene w/Mia, scene when he takes her to bed: shallow depth of field/CU, POV under arm, hyper real sound (phantasmagorical - dream like state, oedipal desire for the farther), the lighting makes the room look completely different, untraditional shots - aligns us w/Mia, OTS looking at Connor, camera follows Mia around  . Kevin: Birth ...
Man with a movie camera end scene: Themes:  - screen in a theatre  - bourgeoisie ballet - super imposed  - camera man, w/planes over head, muscular film making  - soviet montage w/ super imposition (like rodchanko)  - Juxtaposing muscular film making with the passive watching of ballet on film - bourgeoisie film juxtaposed with the muscular film making, what film should be  - camera looks like an AA gun  - what makes the city run - women in labour, split screen - exaggerates this w/split screen, equality in labour + everyone doing there part in industrial Russia to make it run - split screen constructs the frame to exaggerate  the construction on screen  - superimpositition interlinked  - fast cuts - the implications of watching the running of the city  - transport motif, inspiration from futurists which is modernist  - Bolshoi ballet company HQ beings split and melted, destruction of bourgeoisie ...

Man with a movie camera

Techniques: - split screen  - Fast/slow mo  - Freeze frame  - Dissolve - Super imposition  - Stop motion  - Camera angles  - Graphic matching  - EDITING;  . Length of cuts  - Artistic;  . Abstraction (realism vs expressionism)  . Constructivism / Juxtaposition  . Industrialisation -Themes;  . Industry  . Age  . Cycles/ rotation  . Cleaning and Washing  Techniques:  . fast motion  . super imposition  . cogs turning = thriving industry  . Intercutting water w/cogs (electro dam) = harnessing nature for industry, industry as a force of nature, the water being used by us and the cogs as we have harnessed the power of nature  . Industry and labour (the celebration of)  . Physical and manual labour - stokers, machine maintenance  = interaction of man with machine - man with the camera documenting industry while being a...