ETS 154 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Citizen Kane, Celluloid, Slow Motion
28 Sep 2016
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How films establish tense (or time of action) Voiceover: voice of a narrator when narration is not seen (voice of a character is used to establish a temporal shift, narrating events in the past tense. Flashbacks: scenes set in past, often staged as the memories of characters or during scenes in which one character explains past events to another. Regardless of tense, films give appearance of continuous present. Film time: running time of a film (fixed duration: 90 min - 2 hr, citizen kane film time is 2 hr. Narrative time: time represented in the fiction (flexibly: citizen kane narrative time is 70 years. Act 1/ beginning (setup): establishes plot situation in 1st quarter of film time. Act 2/ middle (confrontation): builds plot situation during next half of film time. Act 3/ resolution: brings story to its conclusion in final quarter of film time.
