The Performance Arts

Performance art is usually conceptual art which conveys a meaning in a more drama-related sense, instead of being a simple performance for its own sake for entertainment purposes.

The Representational Arts 

It can be any art no matter how realistic that has the intention of depicting actual things, people, places and so on. Main examples: Film, Books, Posters, Novels.

The Recording Arts: 

Art mainly in the form of music, creating a strong a direct link between the subject and audience. Much more direct than the representational arts.

A film that I believe blurs the boundaries very well is Rocketman. This film shows examples of both Representational and Recording art by its music sang by the characters in multiple parts of the movie and the visual aspect to represent areas of Elton John’s life many people didnt know about or realise.

Cinematography: The art of photography and camera work in filmmaking 

Cinematographer: Someone who oversees the photography and camerawork in a film.  

ACTIVITY 1

Diegetic: the perspective is expressed in terms of how the audience is asked to look at the subjects on screen by the director. This makes the audience pay attention to what the director is trying to show. 

Most films are mostly diegetic. For example: In the Mission Impossible films you see shots of people fleeing and others following them, so it is easier for the audience what is happening in chaotic fight scenes.  

Intra-diegetic: When the audience are in the place of character and are being asked to see things from their point of view. This could make the audience feel like they are a part of the story so the things that happen in it will have a bigger effect.  

This happens in this still from Scott Pilgrim vs The World as the audience is in the place of the character that is about to be punched. This can express the fear the character is feeling without showing the character’s face. This also shows the strength of the punch that is about to happen. 

Extra-diegetic: When someone on screen addresses the audience directly by looking directly down the lens of the camera. (4^th wall breaks).  

This is used in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off when the main character addresses the audience to give his own perspective on different issues throughout the film. This allows the audience to understand him better.  

How to read a film 

Performance arts happen in real time, they are arts or skills that require a performance in front of a public audience. Examples are singing, dancing and acting. Other forms of the Performing Arts include theatre, opera, magic or illusion performances, mime, conversely spoken word and public speaking. 

Representational arts depend on the established codes and conventions of language (both pictorial and literary) to convey information from the subject to the observer. Examples of Representational Arts are books, graphic novels, posters, sculpture and paintings. 

The Recording Arts provide a more direct path between subject and observer: media not without their own codes but qualitatively more direct than the media of representational arts. For example, television, music videos, video games and, most obviously, Film. 

 An example of a film that ‘blurs the boundaries’ is The Greatest Showman. The Greatest Showman is a Film and a musical which means it is part of the Recording Arts as it incorporates many sonic elements as well as visual. The sonic elements are the musical performances and the visuals are, quite simply, the visuals (what you can see on screen) 

Blurring the boundaries means the inclusion of each part of the art spectrum ( Performance, Representational and Recording). So, I think that the original lion kind film blurs the boundaries because it uses representational art to create the frames and link them together as they are animated and were previously drawn. Also the film uses recording arts from the music in the film as it is a type of musical. However, the performance art isn’t used in the film but lion king is a musical in theaters as well, so includes both performance and recording arts, therefore further blurring the boundaries.

The Performance Arts:This happens in real time.

The Representational Arts: Depends on the established codes and conventions of language (both pictorial and literary) to convey information about the subject of the observer.

The Recording Arts: Provide a more direct path between subject and observer. They are media not without their own codes but qualitatively more direct than the media of the representational arts.

Examples:

What Does This List Tell Us About the “formula” For Making A Successful Film?

The majority of the films on the list above are recreations of older films with the use of modern technology instead. If the older film was successful and enjoyed by the audience then the new modernized film should have the same attention or increased attention, this is because all of these films are mainstream and so they are advertised by the media especially on the TV creating a window for success because of the want to watch the film. This creates a successful film because mainstream films targets all age groups and appeals to all genders therefore it can be enjoyed by everyone. Specifically, the use of targeting all ages can aid a film in being successful because it wont block out specific groups of people for example if younger kids want to go and watch a movie, parents will have to go as well, but the adults will still be able to enjoy the film as much as the kids do. Using or recreating an old film can create excitement for audiences who have watched the previous films and then want to find out more in the next film or want to know how the movie has been directed to show a more modernized view on the story line. Social media can be used to review films and for people to express their feeling which can make others want to then watch the film for themselves and see how thy feel about it.

Diegetic: The perspective or “gaze” is expressed in terms of how the audience is being asked to look at the content or subjects on screen by the director

e.g. ​Django Unchained, Good Will Hunting, Trainspotting.

Intra-deiegetic: This is when the audience are put in the place of a character and being asked to see things from their viewpoint through the use of subjective camerawork

e.g. Cloverfield, Blair Witch Project, Wolfenstien series (FPS).

Extra-diegetic: This is when someone on screen addresses the audience directly by looking directly down the lens of the camera– sometimes known as “breaking the 4th wall”. Not to be confused with the above when the audience are being asked to the “perspective” of another character

e.g. The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Wolf of Wall Street, Fight Club

Cinematography – the camera work used when producing videos.

Cinematographer – a person that has an input with the camera work during a film, especially a camera operator.

Diegetic film – Harry Potter

Intra- Diegetic Film – Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones – the director uses a POV style to build suspense as it makes you feel as if you were there.

Extra-Diegetic – Deadpool – Deadpool speaks to the camera throughout the film to let you know what he is feeling.

Shot Distances – Below is an wide shot, mid shot, extreme close up.

Camera Angles – Below is a High, Low and Eye Level shots

Camera Movements

Depth of Field

Intra-deiegetic gaze- In the game ‘Call Of Duty WWII’, The story mode of the campaign is played in first person and you are a soldier fighting in the war. There are many visual aspects where bomb explode and the character is left shell shocked and many scenes where you are fighting against the opposing side. Playing in first person allows you to be immersed as the game is graphic and you get a good idea of how soldiers were treated and how the war planned out.

Extra-deiegetic gaze- There are many scenes in Deadpool and Deadpool 2 where he talks to the camera and makes jokes and funny comments and this allows the people watching to be immersed in the world as they feel that he is talking to them personally.

Deiegetic- Star wars is an example of this as mostly throughout the films the characters never look at the camera and theirs not many extreme closeups but if there is they wont be looking at the camera this feels like they are watching from a distance.