FA7036 - Reading and Film Plan
READING and FILM PLAN
FA7036 – Surbiton Project (leading on to Pre-Production)
READING:
How to Read a Church – summarise
How to Read a Painting - summarise
Re-Imagining Animation – different and unusual techniques
Ideas For the Animated Short – how to make a winning pilot (based on the (a) caravan)
FA7031 – Essay/Essay Film
Folk Tale/Myth
READING:
Myth and Meaning – leitmotifs (sounds – feelings)
Morphology of the Folktale – understanding the origins/structure of folklore. A connection with folk music? Can the story of the caravan be treated as a nostalgic folktale? Folktale versus Fairy tale?
The Writer’s Journey – making the caravan into a character? Connect this with mythology, and learning from it in relation to screenwriting for a pilot?
Animation, Genre and Authorship (for Genre too) – exploring who and why we make animation. What kind of animation do I hope to achieve featuring the (a) caravan?
FILM:
Peter and the Wolf – music as narrative/character archetypes/31 narrative stages (apply to the story of the caravan?) – Find a suitable piece of music and bring the story down to the familiar 12 stages of narrative
Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs – relate to discussion on folklore and the significance of the apple
Aladdin
Batman Begins – each of these for the 12 stages of narrative
Genre
FILM:
WALL-E – for nostalgic representation and genre
Commercials (links on in propaganda document) – for finding nostalgic leitmotifs and incorporating them into the essay film
Essay Film (General)
Frank Film (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZm67rgUAfQ)
Snack and Drink (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrXj4CMC2yk)
Man With a Movie Camera (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z97Pa0ICpn8)
Yearning for Yesterday – for nostalgia discussion
TO GET FROM COMMERCIAL ROAD LIBRARY:
FA7036 (leading on to Pre-Production)
Frame by Frame (Galek)
Secrets of Oscar Winning Animation (Cotte)
Animation: Form Follows Fun (Grant)
Simulacra and Simulation (Baudrillard) – GET FROM AUB
FA7031 (leading on to Pre-Production)
Folk Tale/Myth:
Mythologies (Barthes)
The Enchanted Screen (Zipes)
Visual and Other Pleasures (Mulvey)
Film Theory, An Introduction (Stam)
Genre:
Modern Genre Theory (Duff)
Film Genre, from Iconography to Ideology (Grant)
Essay Films (General): Frank films : the film and video work of Robert Frank
The best of Resfest [DVD]. Vol.1
Man With a Movie Camera [DVD]
