I was just going over the main class page and catching up on new posts that I have missed. The film Memento seems to be very interesting. I have not got around to reading the short story of Christopher Nolan's film, but i look forward to comparing the two after class today. I plan to read Nolan's brothers rendition of it on break today. I enjoyed the website iteration of the story, Otnemem was very cool i liked how the story branched out of the single news article and really gave a sense of what happened to and who Lenard Shelby was. I look forward to watching the film version in class today, seems very interesting and love the fact of multiple iterations. I enjoy watching thrillers, my favorite genre behind comedies. I do find myself a little worried about the upcoming paper that is due, I feel like I am not going to be able to bang out three and a half to four pages on basic narrative conventions of a single movie. But I have yet to try so who knows it could be easier then i think. I plan on describing the narrative conventions of Distant Voice, Still Lives as off the top of my head i can think of a couple examples. Now that I am actually typing about it and thinking about it for the first time, it probably won't be bad at all ha. Ill just have to do it to find out.
P.S - I hope its ok to post the day of class i kinda like it as my mind comes in fresh to class
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The website for Memento is interesting in that it features things not in either other iterations.
ReplyDeleteOn the paper. People write entire books on the narrative conventions used in single films. This paper will be more a matter of deciding which, out of many things, to discuss (not merely, note the existence of). Remember, too, that you are looking at how the film both makes use of traditional conventions and transgresses them: places where the film conforms to the familiar and places where it challenges it. And also you are looking at the conventions which structure all narrative as well as those specific to film (sound, for example).
Just looking through the glossaries in the syllabus, it strikes me that one could use any of the following (not every thing applies to both films):
Analepsis and Prolepsis
Character
Closure
First-Person Narration
Voice-Over Narration
Genre
Narrative Structure
POV
Setting
Composition
Dissolves
Establishing Shot
Eye-Line Shot
Mid-shot
Close-up
Fade
Jump Cut
Library Shot (Stock Shot)
Low-Angle Shot
Match Cut
Mise-En-Scene
Montage
Nonsynchronous Sound
Pan
Point-of-View Shot
Reverse Angle Shot
Shot reverse shot
Synchronous Sound
Two Shot