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Which of three Red Sparrow trailers and ask which is better and why?

1. Final Trailer RED SPARROW Official Trailer (2018) Jennifer Lawrence Movie HD

2. Red Sparrow | Official Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX

3. Trailer of rapid shots before the film title and trailer 1 begins

What does "good" mean?

I think one of the three trailers is clearly superior to the other two.  In this case, I would expect consensus rather than disagreement.

FILM EDITING

MUSIC EDITING

What is good? Why?

Example of how a pop song is edited extremely well in an episode of a romantic thriller TV show. The dramatic action will answer the question "Should I Stay or Should I Go?"

Carly Rae Jepsen - "Run Away With Me," the Music Video

Just the song:

410 Gone (Mr. Robot) (dir. Sam Small, 2019)

The dramatic ending of Season 4 Episode 10 involves lots of cross-cut (parallel) editing with lots of reverse close up shots of two characters at an airport bar in tears and hugging each other. One character will board a flight and the other will not. Diegetic sounds from an airport and parts of a pop song overlap even though the pop song has no diegetic source. Both characters say goodbye 33:15-39:03 (diegetic sounds only). Diegetic sounds from the airport are heard throughout the sequence and ever coninues even after the end of episode into the end titles (the jets are revving up). "Runaway with Me" begins 39:02 with the opening 10 note synth melody (repeated); the lyrics begin at 39:18 (first verse); the song pauses at 40:38 when a character who left the other is about to leave the airport; the music begins again at 40:51 after the same character changes her mind and goes back to the boarding gate; the music ends at 41:28 just after "I wanna be there with you"; at 41:32, the song begins again seconds later from where it left off: "O baby" at 41:38 and ends at 41:57 (just after the "Run Away with Me" chorus stops). One character enters the frame at the boarding gate just as the other leaves it to go into a bathroom down the hallway. Will they miss each other? The episode ends with diegetic sound only at 44:55.

Mr. Robot x "Run Away With Me" (Fan edit)

Close Reading as Analysis / Close Reading Archive  / On Close Reading

Spring 2023 LIT 4930: From Close Reading to Closed Reading

TO MY KNOWLEDGE, THE BEST WEBSITE FOR FILM ANALYSIS IS

These websites can also be useful;

Film Studies: Film Terminology & Analysis

Columbia film glossary with clips

Columbia film glossary of terms

Headphones in Thelma and Louise---phone call conversation, same music in two rooms miles apart

rerelease trailer

Sound behind doors in von Sternberg's Dishonored and in The Blue Angel

noise of rain in Singin' in the Rain

Unitary theory of cinema--sound synchronized with the image--versus music as aleatory, autonomous. Can you locate the source of the sound or not?

And The The Ship Sails On (dir. Fellini,1983) --set in 1914, the death of opera by cinema; the death of cinema by TV

Gender transfer in Hans-Jurgen Syberberg Parsifal (198)

Michel Chion on "The Opera Film"

Satyat Ray, The Music Room

Trailers

A24 trailer

Aspect Ratio:

70mm: From Oklahoma to Oppenheimer (Or, How Very Big Film Was Used to Make Very Big Movies)

To promote Francis Ford Coppola’s epic, the spot used supposed lines from The Times, The New Yorker and others to suggest critics were wrong about him." NY Times

https://richardburtphd.com/criterionthreereasonstobeornottobe.html

Here is the word doc with the FILM EDITING AND MUSIC EXERCISE TEMPLATE

Close Reading as Analysis / Close Reading Archive  / On Close Reading

Spring 2023 LIT 4930: From Close Reading to Closed Reading

TO MY KNOWLEDGE, THE BEST WEBSITE FOR FILM ANALYSIS IS

These websites can also be useful;

Film Studies: Film Terminology & Analysis

Columbia film glossary with clips

Columbia film glossary of terms

ANATOMY OF A SCENE IN THE NY TIMES (Directors narrate sequences from their films.)

Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness VR experience teaser trailer

Here is the word doc with the FILM EDITING EXERCISE TEMPLATE

Strike!

Battleship Potemkin alternate soundtracks

Dziga Vertov, Man with a Movie Camera (1929) with Alloy Orchestra soundtrack or

Music by Michael Nyman / DZIGA VERTOV: THE MAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA AND OTHER NEWLY-RESTORED WORKS

Recommended:

(compare: Alloy vs. Nyman). The BFI released two versions of the film on DVD: the first with scores from the Alloy Orchestra and In the Nursery, and the second billed as "Michael Nyman's Man with a Movie Camera". 

Man with a Movie Camera (2014 Restoration trailer) 

NYman with a Movie Camera' Trailer 2011 Cut by Michael Nyman

5 wonderful effects in Man with a Movie Camera
Shostakovich - Symphony No 10 in E minor, Op 93 - Gergiev

Inglourious Basterds- nations pride scene

Inglourious Basterds Official Trailer #2 - Brad Pitt Movie (2009) HD

Frank Capra's 'The Battle Of Britain' (1943)

• The Two Restorations of Autour de L’Argent - A restoration demonstration of Autour de L’Argent with Serge Bromberg (5 min).

• Silent film soundtracks Alloy Orchestra,

  Passion of Joan of Arc

  The Phantom Carriage

• 

Metropolis 16mm original print (dir. Fritz Lang, 1927)

Metropolis (1927, Griggs Moviedrome 16mm Print)

Soundtrack

Metropolis (1927 / 1984 Giorgio Moroder Version)

Here is the word doc with the FILM EDITING AND MUSIC EXERCISE TEMPLATE

Tron Ares (2025) double trailer

COMPANION Trailer (2025) Jack Quaid

APM 2 09 40--2:11:00; see also 1 39 36 / 1 48 40 1 54 50

The 39 Steps (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1935) the cut from a scream to a train whistle; the music hall

The Psycho shower scene.

Superman "I'm a puck rocker")

The Conformist

Singing in the Rain

Vertigo (Bernhard Hermann) Saul Bass

Chinatown (Jerry Goldsmith)

The Game (Howard Shore) IN THE SUPER 8 HOME MOVIE PROLOGUE

Se7en Title Sequence Smith, Jeff  KYLE COOPER
The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music  
(New York, Columbia University Press, 1998)  

 Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon blu-ray with two soundtracks: restored hand-colored version contemporary soundtrack by Air, with noises; B&W version with piano track by Frederick Hodges and voices. Examples: The Phantom Carriage; The Man with a Movie Camera (KINO and BFI editions); Nosferatu (Eureka / KINO edition); Sergei Eisensten, Battleship Potemkin (KINO blu-ray), two soundtracks; Criterion Pandora's Box, four soundtracks.

The Round-Up

perhaps with the audiocommentary playing. Or René Clair, À nous la liberté (English: "Freedom for Us") (recording industry), or René Clair, Sous les toits de Paris (Under the Roofs of Paris), or René Clair, Prix de beauté, or Jean Vigo, L'Atlante; phantom of . . . / or? . . . . Rene Clair, À nous la liberté (English: "Freedom for Us")

See the montage of surveillance in Death Race 2000.

Death Race -2000 Official Trailer [HD] Timestamp 00:05

"In “Anatomy of a Scene,” we ask directors to reveal the secrets that go into making key scenes in their movies. See new episodes in the series on Fridays. You can also watch our collection of more than 150 videos on YouTube and subscribe to our YouTube channel."

Smith, Jeff  
The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music  
(New York, Columbia University Press, 1998) 

Film Stock

 The Psycho shower scene.

https://www.nytimes.com › alfred-hitchcock-netflixNytimesHow to Watch Hitchcock: 5 Steps to ... - The New York Times

Match cut Psycho

Match cut

"In “Anatomy of a Scene,” we ask directors to reveal the secrets that go into making key scenes in their movies. See new episodes in the series on Fridays. You can also watch our collection of more than 150 videos on YouTube and subscribe to our YouTube channel."

Sound and color TV RCA testsyep, turns out the movie still works without all the expositionMetropolis Ultimate Collector's Edition Blu-ray It Came From Outer Space (1953) Official Trailer Movie HDhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85xpN_OhwqsT

Fritz Lang, Fury (the silent film documentary at the trial)

"Shh" in Silent Movie (1976)

Silent "Shh" in Sinister (2013)

Fritz Lang, Metropolis, Giorgio Morodor 1984 soundtrack

Fritz Lang, Three Metro film projection speeds (20 and 24 frames per second) and two soundtracks in the Masters of Cinema blu-ray edition; in class comparison with the two soundtracks on the Criterion DVD edition, and Jean-Luc Godard, Vivre sa vie (Her Life to Live)

(Parsifal: Ein Bühnenweihfestspiel / opera / operetta / opera buffa / film musical)

See Mladen Dolar, Opera's Second Death on opera buffa.

Carl Dreyer, Passion of Joan of Arc, Masters of Cinema blu-ray and Criterion DVD editions and clip in Godard's Vivre sa Vie when Nana and her john go to see Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc.

Stills from the Criterion and MofC DVDs

Michel Chion, FiIm, A Sound Art (chapter 14-16 and 25.)

Comparative Film Philology: Everyone will watch the most recently restored version on blu-ray at the screening, Fritz Lang, The Complete Metropolis; additionally, one half of the class will watch the previously restored verion, and the other half of the class will watch the 1984 Giorgio Moroder version). Everyone will have watched two out of the three versions before we meet in class to discuss them.

Fritz Lang, The Complete Metropolis (Most Recently Restored Authorized Edition)

Fritz Lang, Metropolis (Most Recently Restored Authorized Edition)

Fritz Lang, Metropolis, Giorgio Morodor 1984 soundtrack

 Phantom of the Paradise  (1974) (kitschy, parodic sequences modelled on silent films) and Brian de Palma, Blow Out (1981)

Cantata / Faust opera by Charles Gounod (same opera as in The Phantom of the Opera)

Recommended, Michel Chion,"The Screaming Point," in Audiovision.

 Required Reading: Michel Chion, Film, a Sound Art (pages t.b.a.)

Metropolitan Opera 2012 production of Wagner's Das Rheingold

 Metropolitan Opera 2012 production of Wagner's Das Rheingold

Theodor Adorno, In Search of Wagner (pages t.b.a)

What is a film soundtrack? (Later, when we get to Chion: "Is there such a thing as a film soundtrack?")

Phantom of the Opera (1925 / 1929 restoration)

Phantom of the Opera (1925 / 1929 restoration; Paolo Usai credited)

Recommended Viewing: silent film (home movie, 8 mm) as memory for amnesiac in Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas (1984) and the silent film documentary at the murder trial in Fritz Lang, Fury (1936) 

 Phantom of the Paradise (kitsch parodic sequences modelled on silent films) and Brian de Palma, Blow Out

: Theodor Adorno and Hanns Eisler, Composing for Films, pages 3-31; 54-61; 65-79. Light music. Background Music. "Easy" listening.

Wagner in Cinema, Redux:

Lars von Trier, Melancholia ("Prelude" from Tristan und Isolde)

Lars von Trier, Melancholia ("Prelude" from Tristan und Isolde at the beginning and the ending of the film)

We will also turn our attention from time to films that are "about" the transition from silent to sound cinema in 1929. Films may include Alfred Hitchcock (sound and silent versions) Blackmail; A Cottage on Dartmoor; Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard; Jean Renoir, Rules of the Game; Rene Clair, Le Million, A Nous la Liberte, and Under the Roofs of Paris, Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times; Fritz Lang, M; Jean-Luc Godard, Vivre sa Vie.

What music looks like

Franz Schubert - Der Leiermann (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau)https://richardburtphd.com/schedfindingfootagebryanferry.html

The Kuleshov Effect / Effetto Kuleshov

Watch Filming Othello and then write two  Discussion Questions (DQs) on the film (200 words max) and describe any three shots of your choice with three film analysis terms (100 words max).

Post your DQs and three shots BOTH on this Google doc 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1it

AND on CANVAS https://elearning.ufl.edu/

REQUIRED VIEWING:

January: 13 Introduction : King Charles To be or not be What is a trailer formula

Shots from the film / not in the film--where are they in the film? Linear order or not? Length of shot in trailer versus length of shot in the film itself. Editing the trailer repeats editing of the film--so the trailer is an adaptation, an abridgment

Possibilites of combination:

Iconic lines or speeches from movie stars

Music in trailers from the film and not from the film
Music and text only
Music, text, and voice-over
Music and voice-over only
Music plus characters peaking lines in hte alternating with a voice over

Trailers with lines from the play or parodies of them Lastt Action Hero
1920s

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010

2020

2025

Trailers --now 2025

Inglorious Basterds film in film as an extra

Look at trailers for Henry V and Branagh and Olivier

Archers at Agincout in 28 Years Later (in the trailer)

In “Anatomy of a Scene,” we ask directors to reveal the secrets that go into making key scenes in their movies. See new episodes in the series on Fridays. You can also watch our collection of more than 150 videos on YouTube and subscribe to our YouTube channel."

"I want to pay tribute to his memory here and to recall all that I owe to the trust and encouragement he gave me, even when, as he one day told me, he did not see at all where I was going. That was in 1966 during a colloquium in the United States in which we were both taking part.  After a few friendly remarks on the paper I had just given, Jean Hippolyte added, “That said, I really don’t see where you are going.” I think I replied to him more or less as follows: “If I clearly saw ahead of time where I was going, I don’t really believe that I would take another step to get there.”  Perhaps I then thought that knowing where one is going may no doubt help in orienting one’s thinking, but that it has never made anyone take a single step, quite the opposite in fact.  What is the good of going where one knows oneself to be going and where one knows that one is destined to arrive?  Recalling this reply today, I am not sure that I really understand it very well, but it surely did not mean that I never see or never know where I am going and that to this this extent, to the extent that I do not know, it I not certain that I ever taken any step or said anything at all."

--Jacques Derrida,"Punctuations: The Time of a Thesis," in The Eyes of the Univerversity, 115

certain shots may gain import when the film is viewed with a certain puporse in mind. The film's structure, the use of the full moon at the beginning and end of The Letter, Davis emptying a revolver in her murder victim in plain sight, unloading an entire pistol cartridge a man in cold blood, the entrance shot of Gail Sondergarrd's character (Mrs. Hammond) will stand out to any viewer who pays close attention to the film. When considering a film like the love scene in The Mad Miss Manton(1938), a screwball comedy and murder mystery, in relation to film noirs of he 1940s, certain shots will pop out, and certain lines like "I'll beat it out of you" resonate. The Mad Miss Manton 1938 Trailer. For example, there is a close up of Stanwyck lying on a couch smoking as Fonda tries to protect her. The music recalls (to me) the music in The Letter. Six years later she starred as the femme fatale lead in the classic noir Double Indemnity and two years after that she starred in The Strange Life of Martha Ivers. Stanwyck reteamed with co-star Henry Fonda in The Lady Eve (1944) and starred in the screwball comedy Great Ball of Fire (1941).

Sound and color TV RCA testsyep, turns out the movie still works without all the expositionMetropolis Ultimate Collector's Edition Blu-ray It Came From Outer Space (1953) Official Trailer Movie HDhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85xpN_OhwqsT

Delerue also wrote the soundtrack for Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt (Le Mépris)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUs4awmb3-o

Le Mepris (Contempt) - Theme De Camille

1963 Directed by Jean-Luc Godard Music by Georges Delerue

https://richardburtphd.com/indexanamorph.htmlDue January 14 by 5:00 p.m: Second Viewing Responses. Give the timestamps of the shots or scenes in the film you think are related by design to two of the four shots I will give you.In your word doc, give the timestamps of the single shots or sequence of shots for two of the four out of mix, and give a description (around 40 words) of the formal relation you observe between the shots I gave you and the shots you noticed. Email all work for the course to me at After you click on the link on the title and watch, write two Discussion Questions (DQs) on and describe any three shots of your choice with three film analysis terms.Post Your DQs etc  for History of Film 1 Fall 2022 here.Put your DQs and three shots in one word document--.doc or .docx--and send the word . Don't send me a google doc or copy your document into your email. Don't forget to put your name in the upper right corner of your word document. If you want to know how to improve your discussion questions, I will be happy to meet with you on zoom during office hours or by appointment and show you.Example of the word document format for discussion questions due Mondays by 5:00 p.m.:Your name in the upper right corner.Discussion Questions 1. (with timestamps of the shots you are discussing)2.  (with timestamps of the shots you are discussing)Three Film Shots a. (descriptions using film analysis terms with timestamps)b. (descriptions using film analysis terms with timestamps)c. (descriptions using film analysis terms with timestamps)(Clip)REQUIRED VIEWING:Post Your DQs etc  for Spring 2025 here.Le Vert au cinéma - Blow Up - ARTELe Rouge au cinéma - Blow Up - ARTEWall E (2008)