Film Language

Elements used to elict an emotional response in the audience:

Cinematography

Mise en scene

Sound

Editing: 
rhythm: beat of film
passing of time: rate at which film operates
graphic relationships: cut, fade.......

What makes a good edit?

- The beat of the music was in time with the cuts in the film
- Music creates the impact and makes the film powerful
- Colour scheme/temperature of lighting has huge impact and emotional significance
- Choice of sound sets the mood but also works to tell and enhance the storyline
- Types of edit that create impact includes, dissolves, cross dissolves, fade in, fade out, fade to black, fade to white, wash in, wash out
- Graphics: editing images; crop footage, overlay footage and fade it through layer, cutting out backgrounds ad replacing them with other layers (chroma keying), adjust the colours, layer photos on top of footage

i-movie

-command t; splits footage