314 t2 orson
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copy deck
- orson's experience that helps him in film
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theater
radio - orson's theater experience
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- mercury players in ny
- learns how to tell a story -
what did he learn about narration
where did he learn it -
how to tell a story:
- freshway to tell an old story
- narrative econ
- stagina dn lighting
broadway ny - eg of fresh way to tell a old story
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- voodoo macbeth with all black cast
- julius caesar in contemp fascist italy - hat was welles arrival on broadway
- voodoo macbeth
- eg of narrative ecom
- - caesar only 90 mins instead of forever like usual
- from what did he learn narrative econ
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- theater (caesar)
- radio (condense to an hour) - importance of staging and lighting?
- visual tells the story
- what inspired way of staging and lighting on broadway
- hitler's nazi rallies (hail caesar)
- where did he get money to put on plays/mercury players
- radio shows (many roles a day)
- why was orson in demand on radio
- perfect radio voice
- name of orson's theater group
- mercury players
- what was the name the radio program that he got finally
- mercury theater of the air
- important radio broadcast
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war of the worlds
people believed aliens were invading the planet - what did he learn from radio
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narrative economy (condensing story into an hour)
sound design for nattarive - why did he get on times
- partly cuz of war of the worlds + panic
- what studio gave him the cit kane offer
- archeo
- what kind of offer did he get from archeo
- complete control on project (very very rare)
- who is cit kane based on
- will randolph hearst
- who opposed cit kane
- hearst's newspapers (campaign)
- what is welles theme
- how to act ethically in a morally complex corrupted world
- how did welles use low shots
- ironic: low shots = power but he is not in control
- what is welles favorite shot
- ironic use of low angle shot (seems like power but not in control)
- examples of low angle shots
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ironic
- he is in the newsroom in front of the kane banner
- streamers everywhere in newsroom (you see ceilings) - what was different about use of low angle shots from other movies at the time
- you never see such low angles/ceilings because thats wehre the lights were
- what kind of focus did he use
- extreme deep focus (universal focus)
- why did welles ask for universal focus
- didnt know it is very technically difficult so asked gregg toland
- who was welles' dp on cit kane
- gregg toland
- what does universal focus mean
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everyone&evertyhing is important.
everyone is responsible for everone else - eg of universal focus
- - parents signing son away to thatcher, kane playing outside "the union forever"
- what does deep focus mean
- relationship between people, you are responsible for the people you are connected to
- variable lighting schemes are?
- shadows and darkness (light streaming in,nighttime scenes)
- why variable lighting schemes, what does it say
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bitterweet view of the world
dark,treacherous, life goes into darkness - eg of variable lighting schemes
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- kane throws alexander into shadow
- light streaming in window (reporter goes to thatcher diary), assigning the assn - why didnt welles understand 180 rules
- stagecoach ford violates axis
- welles' complex mes, whats it mean
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spatial relations > character relations
moving camera, actors, deep focus
trouble makingmoral decisions in clmplicated world -
what do spatial relations say
egs -
character relations
alexander doing puzzles, swallowed by fireplace
relationship history -
what do moving camera actors deep focus say about welles
eg -
life is complex, how to make moral decisions - you cant
e.g. after they bought the staff, kane dancing with girls in window reflection as leland/berenstein talk - how does welles use soundmontage
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collage (layers of sound)
pudovkin's relational editing
eisensteinian dialectal montage - how is collage sound montage used
- overlapping dialogue, diegetic and non-dieg music, sound fx
- how is sound relational editing
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transitional device
lightning mix - lightning mixes def, eg
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- link shots with common sound
- thatcher: merry christmas. merry christmas.. and a happy new year
- applause fo Alexander > crowd applauding leland > leland >who entered the campaign, for one reason only. -
eisensteinan dialectical montage
def
e.g. -
image + sound = new meaning
slap at picnic + woman screaming
susan's opera montage -
susan's opera montage eg of?
consists of -
eisenstein dialectic montage
diegetic opera music, nondiegetic drums beating, soud fx (whirring), light burns out as the sounds get softer - slap at picnic + woman screaming eg of?
- eisenstein dialectical montage