Class 12 English — Chapter 16: Film-making

What you'll learn

• ▸Bergman's Childhood Influences on Film-making
• ▸Film-making as a Form of Conjuring
• ▸The Genesis of a Film Idea
• ▸The Challenge of Writing a Screenplay
• ▸The Essential Rhythm of Film
• ▸Film's Distinction from Literature
• ▸The Kinship Between Film and Music
• ▸Critique of Literary Adaptations

Chapter Summary

--- PAGE 1 --- 12076CH16 3 Film-making Ingmar Bergman 1918-2007 Ingmar Bergman is a well known Swedish director of films noted for their starkness, their subtle use of black and white and 'shades' of those extremes, the ambiguity of their content, and a certain brooding presence that seems to pervade them all. The list of Bergman films is long; his best known include The Seventh Seal (1957), Wild Strawberries (1958), The Virgin Spring (1960), The Silence (1963), Persona (1967), The Passion of Anna (1970), and Cries and Whispers (1973)—this last film in colour, though emphasising red in all its shadings. In the following selection, the Introduction to Four Screen-plays by Ingmar Bergman (1960), Bergman discusses how he views the art of film-making. During the shooting of The Virgin Spring, we were up in the northern province of Dalarna in May and it was early in the morning, about half past seven. The landscape there is rugged, and our company was working by a little lake in the for…

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7. Bergman states that for a one-hour film, the audience sits through how many minutes of complete darkness? Get Solution →
8. What does Bergman call himself, relating to the deceptive nature of cinematography? Get Solution →

Did you know?

• 💡 Movies work by showing many still pictures so fast they trick your brain into seeing motion.
• 💡 Before film projectors, magic lanterns used hand-painted glass slides to show moving images.
• 💡 The very first moving picture was a short clip of a galloping horse in 1878.
• 💡 Early films were silent, and live musicians often played along with the movie in theaters.
• 💡 The illusion of depth in 3D movies is created by showing each eye a slightly different image.

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