Thursday 29 October 2015

Crane Techniques

Crane Up, move away
Crane down, move towards

Searching cranes - character searches, crane away reveals magnitude of search

Rise up - looking over an obstruction

Fall Down - look at something on the ground

Crane front to top - from full on to overhead

Crane up entrance

Crane up expression - emotional response - pyschological detachment, nature of life

Crane up look down

Crane down, look up - from full on to below


Friday 16 October 2015

Children's TV

Anne Wood

  • Reflect children's experiences back to them - build confidence
  • Children living in the same but different world
  • As independent production company can only sell to BBC currently
  • have to get budgets elsewhere
  • independent producers taking creative and financial risk

  • hear voices like their own and see places that are familiar - know about their own world
  • animation tax break last year, about to be live action tax break - nickolodeon commissioning 3 new shows
  • helen skeltern being good role model for girls

Wednesday 7 October 2015

Notes on Pride and Prejudice


  • Collins misreads Elizabeth, Bingley misreads Jane, Lydia misread Wickham and Mrs Bennet misread everyone
  • Heidegger claims emotion influences what we see
  • Elizabeth has emotional and rational intelligence
  • We see emotions that comic character miss
  • 'Darcy is masculine becuase he is emotional' p131
  • the worst character are those that speak most forcibly for contemporary mores' p135
  • Mrs Bennet always takes on the position of conflict with Mr Bennet and Elizabeth
Keith M. Opdahl, Emotion as Meaning: The literary case for how we imagine

Tuesday 6 October 2015

Fabula and Sjuzet

Fabula the order of events as referred to by the narrative

Sjuzet the order of events presented in the narrative discourse

Peter Brooks, 1984:12

Ned Lukacher on Post Modernism

the dilemma of the postmodern world is...

'to recognize that "mourning is in error2 but to be nevertheless condemned to mourn; to be unable to remember the transcendental gorund that would once again give meaning to human language and experience but also unable to stop mourning the puxtative loss of an originary memory and presence that doubtless never existed'

Originary memory - quest for the moment of orgin

Hemingway and Emotion

from Keith M. Ophdal


  • 'The story exists to give the reader an emotional reaction'
  • Hemingway "The writer may omit things that he knows and the reader... will have a feeling of those things as strongly as if the writer had stated them'
  • readers fell context and implication
  • language triggers not feelings but images
  • almost every word carries an emotional charge
  • 'connotation and association mean that every word in a passage floats in a pool of meaning' p113
  • one part of mind understand abstract denotation and another feels some of the emotion
  • in hemingway feeling is resides within the text, in Fitzgerald it resides within the narrator's voice