What to look for in a film (from class discussion)

Here's a list of what you all suggested as important items to look for in a film. Thanks to Brianne Geffre for sending this information.

1. Art Form or Not pure Art? (are they out to make money?)

               

2. New Technology

                -Effects

3. Technical issues

• Lighting, angles (length of cuts, quality of movement) 

4. Direction of Action (gaze, sight lines)

5. Genre

6. Budget/ Purpose

                -Quality

7. Method of narration and subject matter

                -music/ sound

                -Narration/ voice over

8. Dialogue between viewer and movie

                -what questions arise while watching

9. Intended audience

                -era, population

10. Symbols that repeat

11. Context

                -historical background

12. Setting, props, staging

13. Beginnings and Endings

                -Order of the scenes 

14. Acting,

• who is chosen
  
• Type Casting

15. What sells the movie?

                Effects vs Story/ Characters