Summary Document (Draft)---Part 1

Xinrui Ren

N0453242

MA Film Practice

INDRODUCTION

In this academic year, I research that how can film techniques be employed to attract more audience in comedy, especially farce. In this time, I investigated Cinematography, Mise-en-scene, Lighting, Sound and Story structure character development and plot and editing.

In my first phase, my research is to compare the different film style of the western and eastern countries, but in my research I found that it is too wide, so I changed my research. Because I’m interesting comedy in my research, and I did some film analyze, I found that the influence of cinematography and light in comedy, for example, Visual dislocation--it mean that degree of camera let audiences cannot watch the truth, just guess, but the truth is different, such as < Immigrant >.“On the other hand, however, skillful use of this optical fact makes possible a game of hide-and-seek resulting in an unexpected artistic denouement. The revelation is especially effective because there has been no obvious concealment beforehand, no artificial suggestion of secrecy.” (Rudolf Arnheim, 1932).

Picture 1

Picture 2

Picture 1: this shot shows someone’s head is smoking

Picture 2: after the camera turn around, the truth is that this people is worshipping (in China, when people is worshipping, they must incense).