Writing About Film...

I have taken other film related courses in the past, and I have had to write about films on many occasions, but I have to say that the Corrigan text is really making me take a more critical approach to watching films.

I have always paid attention to the visual aspect of films in terms of composition and camera movements, but I had never really considered how much of a role editing played in the quality of a film. Recently, I have found myself paying attention to things like continuity and transitions between scenes, which are things that I had not given much thought to in the past.

Another concept from the text that caught my attention was the idea that sound in film has a big part in conveying a certain emotion or idea in a scene. I never really considered the importance of sound, or lack of sound in some cases, and how the sound in a film is capable of bringing deeper meaning to a scene or linking a number of scenes together in some way. With the few films I have seen since reading this section of the text, I have been more aware of the significance of the music, sound effects, etc., in relation to what is taking place in the movies, which is something that I rarely paid attention to before.

So far, I have found the text as a whole to be interesting, but I just thought I would mention editing and sound because those are the two elements that really stuck out to me.