Style

Question 1

Style

Answer 1

• entails the integration of different elements to produce a distinctive pattern
• recognize the particularity of an individual artist or a group of artists in the stylistic choices they make
• style we attribute to artists, distinguishes their work
• systematic uses to produce patterns

Question 2

What is the film’s overall form?

Answer 2

• general relationship betw. plot + story
• means it develops over time
• ways it employs devices (repetition, variation, parallelism + motifs)
• extent it provides or withholds information

Question 3

What are the primary techniques being used?

How do they interact with other elements

Answer 3

• catalogue all the techniques used
• determine techniques salient in conveying meaning + producing effect
• think about what is being connoted + denoted
• think about way various techniques/stylistic elements interact with one another
• forces you to think about what techniques aren’t used

Question 4

What patterns are formed by the techniques?

Answer 4

• disruption of patterns is just as important as the patterns themselves
• interaction of various techniques
• must notice when sustained, established. disrupted
• disruption can occur within a scene or across whole film

Question 5

What functions do the techniques and patterns fill?

Answer 5

• how do techniques + patterns operate
• what effects do they produce
• how do they affect spectatorial expectations
• how do they contribute to the plot’s/story’s development?

Question 6

Denote

Answer 6

-literal+obvious meaning

Question 7

Connote

Answer 7

• suggest/imply in addition to literal meaning

- each technique denotes + connotes

Question 8

Manner of Representation

Answer 8

-attention, subjective/objective, how we relate, how we understand their relationships, unrestricted/restricted, artificial/realism

Question 9

Salient

Answer 9

-which does it stress, elicits response