western • Soviet montage • cartoon • superhero • comics • horror • real TV • close-up • tilted angle shot • digital broadcasting • overlay • fantasy genre
1.1. Picture 1
western • Soviet montage • cartoon • superhero • comics • horror • real TV • close-up • tilted angle shot • digital broadcasting • overlay • fantasy genre
1.2. Picture 2
western • Soviet montage • cartoon • superhero • comics • horror • real TV • close-up • tilted angle shot • digital broadcasting • overlay • fantasy genre
1.3. Picture 3
western • Soviet montage • cartoon • superhero • comics • horror • real TV • close-up • tilted angle shot • digital broadcasting • overlay • fantasy genre
1.4. Picture 4
western • Soviet montage • cartoon • superhero • comics • horror • real TV • close-up • tilted angle shot • digital broadcasting • overlay • fantasy genre
1.5. Picture 5
western • Soviet montage • cartoon • superhero • comics • horror • real TV • close-up • tilted angle shot • digital broadcasting • overlay • fantasy genre
1.6. Picture 6
western • Soviet montage • cartoon • superhero • comics • horror • real TV • close-up • tilted angle shot • digital broadcasting • overlay • fantasy genre
1.7. Picture 7
western • Soviet montage • cartoon • superhero • comics • horror • real TV • close-up • tilted angle shot • digital broadcasting • overlay • fantasy genre
1.8. Picture 8
western • Soviet montage • cartoon • superhero • comics • horror • real TV • close-up • tilted angle shot • digital broadcasting • overlay • fantasy genre
1.9. Picture 9
western • Soviet montage • cartoon • superhero • comics • horror • real TV • close-up • tilted angle shot • digital broadcasting • overlay • fantasy genre
1.10. Picture 10
western • Soviet montage • cartoon • superhero • comics • horror • real TV • close-up • tilted angle shot • digital broadcasting • overlay • fantasy genre
1.11. Picture 11
western • Soviet montage • cartoon • superhero • comics • horror • real TV • close-up • tilted angle shot • digital broadcasting • overlay • fantasy genre
1.12. Picture 12
fostered • cliffhangers • tilted • drama • gender • aired • doom • swashbuckling • relatable • storyteller
1. Television is the greatest ever.
2. Fictional stories are forms of .
3. Crusader Rabbit was first in 1949.
4. Unease can be intensified by angles.
5. Do some cartoons perpetuate stereotypes?
6. This noir is filled with corruption and a sense of inevitable .
7. Didn’t she direct a last year?
8. I wonder how they succeeded in shooting all those without any accidents.
9. A superhero cartoon doesn’t feature characters.
10. Moral values are often both in American and Japanese cartoons.
Visual storytelling is not only telling a story to someone but creating and organising an experience for the public in a way they can identify themselves with it. The communication strategy is effective when the medium chosen has the appropriate characteristics to do so. The French poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau, for example, called the cinema “picture writing”. The language of film is not the language of words, even though spoken dialogue has been an integral part of motion pictures since the late 1920s, and written captions were usually required to explain the action before that. It is primarily in the qualities of its images and sounds that the expressivity of the cinema must be sought. The filmmaker has a number of ways of modifying the camera’s neutrality and thereby the “reality” that is conveyed to the audience. It is largely by means of these devices that the motion picture becomes such an expressive medium. Several of these expressive techniques should be emphasised. First, there is framing, i.e. carefully selecting what will be included within each frame of the film and what will be excluded. Second, there is scale, the size and placement of a particular object or a part of a scene in relation to the rest, a relationship that is determined by the placement of the camera. Third is camera movement, or the lack of it, during shooting. Fourth, there are the peculiar advantages of either colour or black-and-white photography that can be exploited. Finally, through the cinematographer’s skill and knowledge of laboratory processes, other highly expressive techniques can be achieved.
Adapted from:
1. Didascalia
2. Ripresa
3. Inquadrare
4. Film
5. Cinepresa
6. Suoni
7. Regista
8. Mezzo
4.1. plot • challenge • acting • screenwriter
4.2. eerie • heartfelt • unsettling • duration
4.3. conductor • overlays • ads • camera feeds
4.4. ballerina • ballet • theatre • football
4.5. director • gaffer • production assistant • wedding
4.6. grips • twists and turns • arc • suspense
4.7. documentary • reportage • talk show • quest
4.8. caped crusader • benchmark • superhero • villain