DIFFERENT FORMS

AND
CONVENTIONS OF
FILM AND MOVING
PICTURES

DIRECTED BY: PRINCESS CATHERINE D. GUIAO

MOTIVATION

Who among you want to

be an actress, actor or
director? Why? 
What is a film?
• It is also called as movie or motion
picture consists of moving pictures
that have been recorded so that
they can be shown at the cinema or
television.
DIFFERENT FORMS
 1.)LIGHTNING / LIGHTS

• Lights is a convention of films used to create a specific

atmosphere. It is a very important aspect for shaping
meaning in films.
• It can manipulate a viewer’s attitude towards a setting
or a character.
• The way light is used can make objects, people and
environments look beautiful or ugly, soft or harsh,
artificial or real.
• A dark lighting can bring an ominous feel
whereas bright lighting can bring a cheerful
atmosphere.
• The lighting technicians in a film crew have the
task of creating lighting to suit the mood and
atmosphere of each scene in a film.
Take a look of these pictures, what kind of
atmosphere is being created?
 2. BLOCKING
• It is determining where the actors will be on
the set and the camera’s position.
• You can also think of blocking as the
choreography of a dance or a ballet: all the
elements on the set (actors, extras, vehicles,
crew, equipment) should move in perfect
harmony with each other.
• Blocking is like a puzzle: directors need to keep
working at it until the whole scene works.
• In Television and low budget films, speed is
essential, story and block some scenes so that
your action takes place in one direction (to
avoid turning the camera around for reverses.)
• It is the position and movements of the actors.
3. DIRECTION
• A film director is the person responsible for directing a
film or movie.
• The film director gives direction to the cast and crew
and creates an overall vision through which a film
eventually becomes realized, or noticed. Directors need
to be able to mediate differences in creative visions and
stay within the budget.
• The director has a key role in choosing the cast
members, production design, and the creative aspects
of filmmaking.[1] Under European Union law, the
director is viewed as the author of the film.
4. CHARACTERIZATION
• Is the process by which the writer reveals the
personality of a chara cter. Characterization is revealed
through direct characterization and indirect
characterization.
• Direct Characterization tells the audience what the
personality of the character is.
• Example: “The patient boy and quiet girl were both well
mannered and did not disobey their mother.”
• Explanation: The author is directly telling the audience
the personality of these two children. The boy is
“patient” and the girl is “quiet.”
 • Indirect Characterization shows things that reveal the personality of a
character. There are five different methods of indirect
characterization:
SPEECH What does the character say? How
does the character speak?
THOUGHTS What is revealed through the
character’s private thought s and
feelings?
Effect on others What is revealed through the charac-
toward the character ter’s effect on other people? How do
other characters feel or behave in
reaction to the character?
Actions What does the character do? How
does the character behave?
Looks What does the character look like?
How does the character dress?
Let’s see these Characters
5. ACTING
• Acting is an activity in which a story is told by means of
its enactment by an actor or actress who adopts
a character—in theatre, television, film, radio, or any
other medium that makes use of the mimetic mode.
• Acting involves a broad range of skills, including a well-
developed imagination, emotional facility, physical
expressivity, vocal projection, clarity of speech, and the
ability to interpret drama.
• Acting also demands an ability to
employ dialects, accents, improvisation, observation
and emulation, mime, and stage combat.
6. Dialog
• Dialog is any conversation in a book, film or play of the
characters. These are lines of the them.
• Dialog is more commonly spelled dialogue, but either
way it means "lines spoken by a character" or a
conversation, either between fictional characters or real
people.
• Dialog comes straight from the Greek dialogos
• “With great power comes great responsibility” -
Spiderman
• “No amount of money ever bought a second of
time” – Avenger’s End Game
• "Am I not enough? Panget ba ako? Kapalit-palit
ba ako?“- My Ex and Whys
7. SETTING
• Setting is the time and place (or when and where) of
the story. It’s a literary element of literature used in
novels, short stories, plays, films, etc., and usually
introduced during the exposition (beginning) of the
story, along with the characters.
• The setting of a story can change throughout the plot
especially for films with many scenes.
• Example
Time: Cinderella as a young girl, long ago in the past
Place: Cinderella’s home in a kingdom far away

• 2 types of Setting
• The Backdrop Setting
• Integral Setting
Backdrop Setting
• Have you ever read a story, but found it difficult to
figure out what time period in which the story was
written or where it is? The story probably had a
backdrop setting. The story is timeless and can happen
at any point in history or anywhere. The focus is on the
lesson or message being delivered. Many fairy tales and
children’s stories have backdrop settings.
• Integral Setting
• With an integral setting (integral means to be a part of
or important to), the time and place are important to
the story. For example, a story dealing with a historical
setting will have a direct impact on the plot. A story
that happens in the 1800s will not have technology, so
the characters will have to write a letter, ride a horse or
take a carriage to visit each other; they cannot travel
long distances in one day as we do now with cars,
buses, and planes. This will have a direct impact on the
events of the story, especially if there is distance
involved.
8. Set-up/ Film Set
• It is the scenery and the props arranged for shooting a
film.
• the environment (an exterior or interior locale) where
the action takes place in a film; when used in contrast
to location, it refers to an artificially-constructed
time/place (a backdrop painting or a dusty Western
street with a facade of storefronts); supervised by the
film's art director; strike refers to the act of taking apart
a set once filming has ended.
REFERENCES
• https://www.nyfa.edu/film-school-blog/the-5-stages-of-blocking-a-scene/
• https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Film+direction
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_director-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acting-
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/dialog-
https://literaryterms.net/setting/-
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/film-set-set-up
• https://www.filmsite.org/filmterms17.html
• www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/.../Characterization.pdf
• https://sresenglishclub.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/7/0/.../as-en6-q1-w1-d5.pdf