The Motion Art: Let’s Get Into Movies!
Green Yeo
ENG 225
Instructor, Jacqueline Ryan-Rojas
November 26, 2008
Ashford University
Introduction
The Art of Watching Films (2008) is a quite interesting course, and has been provided a lot of information about film analysis. Such as, how the films are made, edited, and how the actors or actresses are been cast, and how and what they do to perform the certain character that they have to act out. The movies are another type of work of an art, so if the viewers can understand a film well, such as acknowledging the meaning of the movies or the intensions of the filmmakers, then the viewers would appreciate more about the films. Based on the reading assignments from this course, this paper explains the steps to analyze the entire movie. This paper also explores the way to find out and interpret the meaning of the movies.
The Motion Art: Let’s Get Into Movies!
Analysis means breaking up the whole to discover the nature, proportions, functions, and interrelationships of the parts (Boggs, J.M. & Petrie, D.W, 2008, p. 7). To analyze a film, viewer needs to respond sensitively to the simultaneous and continuous interplay of images, sounds, and movements on the screen instead of just sit back and watch film. Film analysis allows viewer to raise intuitive grasp to a conscious level, bring it into sharp focus, and thereby make more valid and definite conclusions about the film’s meaning and value, therefore, there are couple of challenges to analyze a film. First, viewers must somehow remain almost totally immersed in the experience of a film while viewers maintain a high degree of objectivity and critical detachment. For example, the question, such as how or did would the viewers might feel if the viewers were in those particular situations, would help oneself to understand the movies a lot easier. Second, the technical nature of the medium also creates challenges (Boggs, J.M. & Petrie, D.W, 2008, p....