AESTHETIC DEFINITION.- the way a film’s visual and aural features are used to create essentially non-narrative dimensions of the film, including the film’s ‘look’. Aesthetics can be understand to relate to the style, tone, look or mood of a film
Social Realism- the realistic depiction in art of contemporary life, as a means of social or political comment.
Kneecap is a social realism film as it tackles the issue of sectarianism in the North of Ireland and the characters express their troubles and bio-logical trauma which stems from colonialism through music and self-expression, all while evading the police and R.R.A.D
Verisimilitude- the appearance of being true or real.
I would class this film as having verisimilitude because of Gena Rowlands incredible portrait of an unstable bi-polar mother.
Magic Realism- Magical realism portrays fantastical events in an otherwise realistic tone.
Donnie Darko would be classed as magic realism. Donnie commonly converses with Frank a bunny who tells Donnie the date at which the world will end, Donnie believes this bunny is real, which classes this film as magic realism
Hyperreality-a condition in which what is real and what is fiction are seamlessly blended together so that there is no clear distinction between where one ends and the other begins.
Mulholland rive would fit into the hyperreality category as the watcher is not aware that the first half of this film is a dream and the second is reality.
AESTHETICS TERM 2-
•Iconography- the visual images and symbols used in a work of art or the study or interpretation of these. The film heavily evolves around dreams, what is real and what isn’t.
•Intertextual Referencing- the relationship between media products where one text references another text by reusing some its ideas and meanings.
I would class Almost Famous as intertextual referencing as many real-life bands including Lynyrd Skynyrd and the eagles are mentioned as if they belong in that world with the fictional band Still Water.
•Visual motif- commonly seen, repetitive symbol in a film
red roses are commonly used in American beauty to represent, love, lust, passion, murder, blood,
Sound motifs- commonly heard- repetitive sound in a film.
•Colour Grading- digital tools or photochemical processes are used to make videos or films look better or change the colour tone and mood.
•Auteur Trademarks-An auteur is a director that has such a distinctive style of directing that they are considered the “author” because you can recognise their style from one clip- David Lynch as an example. A particular kind of irony where the very macabre and the very mundane combine in such a way as to reveal the former’s perpetual containment within the latter.”
PATHOS- a quality that evokes pity or sadness.
BATHOS- an effect of anti-climax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous.
SUSPENSE- a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen.
COMEDY- film genre that emphasizes humor
DRAMATIC IRONY- a literary device by which the audience’s or reader’s understanding of events or individuals in a work surpasses that of its characters.
VERFREMDUNG- The distancing effect, also translated as alienation effect is a concept in performing arts credited to German playwright Bertolt Brecht.
POSTMODERN HUMOUR- postmodern humor features jokes about serious topics like murder or war. By writing characters who make light of such topics, postmodernists highlight the dehumanization they see in their society.
