Quick question regarding Film language essay.

[Svenparty]

Hi I'm a student of film and was given an essay to write on the following question:

"Why are early films useful in the study of film language?"

I have written the 1000 word essay focusing mainly on how Early film is useful in studying the developments of different film techniques such as editing and camera angle. But rethinking about the question and researching. I found film language to be a vague term for narrative aspects basically what I need to know is:

Is what I'm focusing on Film Language or should I redo the entire Essay? Usually I have no trouble with Essays on Film but this one seems vaguely written in terminology.

Thank you.

 

[Giftfromme]

It also has to do with what we call "realistic" as this has changed over the decades. For what we once thought was realistic, nowadays we can safely laugh at, and a horror made in the 50s can make us laugh now. They can show us the journey of how people received and perceived film, and how this has changed over the decades. Something like that. I did a "Reading Media PG" unit in my Masters, but no other media unit in my studies. What we studied was how to read movies, and how this changed over time. How it was that in the 50s people could be scared of the horror movies, while now we can laugh at how unrealistic etc they are.

So yeah my 1.5 cents.

 

[Svenparty]

It also has to do with what we call "realistic" as this has changed over the decades. For what we once thought was realistic, nowadays we can safely laugh at, and a horror made in the 50s can make us laugh now. They can show us the journey of how people received and perceived film, and how this has changed over the decades. Something like that. I did a "Reading Media PG" unit in my Masters, but no other media unit in my studies. What we studied was how to read movies, and how this changed over time. How it was that in the 50s people could be scared of the horror movies, while now we can laugh at how unrealistic etc they are.

So yeah my 1.5 cents.

Thank you for reminding me of this concept, Do Filmic Techniques count generally as Film Language such as how early film created many cinematic conventions or was I on the wrong track?

 

[Giftfromme]

It also has to do with what we call "realistic" as this has changed over the decades. For what we once thought was realistic, nowadays we can safely laugh at, and a horror made in the 50s can make us laugh now. They can show us the journey of how people received and perceived film, and how this has changed over the decades. Something like that. I did a "Reading Media PG" unit in my Masters, but no other media unit in my studies. What we studied was how to read movies, and how this changed over time. How it was that in the 50s people could be scared of the horror movies, while now we can laugh at how unrealistic etc they are.

So yeah my 1.5 cents.

Thank you for reminding me of this concept, Do Filmic Techniques count generally as Film Language such as how early film created many cinematic conventions or was I on the wrong track?

I would say yes. These techniques are how the films communicate to audiences. Alfred Hitchcock movies are classic examples of this. The techniques used to film movies are inseparable from how they communicate to the audience. As long as you justify your stance, you can't be on the wrong track here.