FILM 3420D Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mockumentary, Classical Hollywood Cinema, Japanese Horror
4 Apr 2016
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Emergence of digital media not just a way of broadcasting, but also a way to create horror. Symbiotic relationship between major studios and independent filmmakers instead of former opposition. Majors financing and distributing independent films for profit. Embracing new media for faster and cheaper production. Some have tv movie look or home video look. Serialization (episodic movies like ringu with five parts), omnibus films. Urban anxiety, isolation, alienation contrasted to remnants of pre-modern culture. (post) industrial modernity vs. nature and agrarian life. Science and technology vs. religion and superstition. Electronic devices (tvs, videos, cell phones, surveillance) Ghosts often appear in diegetic point of view shots. Stutter, repeating the same sound or image as if it is caused by a technical mistake. Shutting down the sound or image abruptly. Principle of reduction (applies to digital filmmaking) turn on the camera, use a regular light, and only requires two people in the crew.
