Intro to Film
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
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regular fps.
super 8 fps. -
24 fps.
18 fps. -
Gauges
# of scan lines -
8 mm, 16 mm, 35mm, etc.
525 -
Film
Video
Digital -
light
electricity
1's and 0's - LuMiere Films
- first films, 50 sec., about real life: trains, workers
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Realistic
Formalistic -
Let it happen in front of screen
Manipulating during post-production - Reversal
- A turning point in the movie. There should be a lot of these. Affect protagonist
- Confrontation
- A middle reversal
- Dark moment
- Things can't get any worse
- Difference between novel and screenplay
- Novel is in past, screenplay is present
- Narrative
- The story
- Form
- How the story is shown
- Sequence
- A series of shots
- A shot
- A period between cuts
- Diegesis
- What is inside the world of the movie(lightsaber in star wars is part of diegesis)
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The need
The goal -
What the audience needs protagonist to do.
What protagonist wants to do - Jump cut
- camera doesn't move but object does. Manipulates space and time.
- Mise en scene
- Staging a scene (framing and imaging), when Kane and wife get older in Citizen Kane
- Cinematicity
- An approach to filmmaking that is unique and focuses on formalism
- protagonist
- character driven into action by inciting incident
- Non-linear narrative
- Like Memento
- Cinematography
- "Writing with moving light", deciding what film stocks to use for specific light, etc.
- Continuity editing
- cutting to maintain continuous clear narrative action
- Crosscutting
- Two different shots at different locations occurring at the same time
- Deep focus
- keeps both close and distant planes in sharp focus
- Dialogue overlap
- When sound from shot B is heard during shot A
- Direct sound
- captured during filming
- Diegetic sound
- is normal for world being filmed, like cheers at a stadium
- Establishing shot
- shooting mountains as cowboys ride through them
- Hard lighting
- Illumination that creates sharp-edge shadows
- high-key lighting
- Illumination the creates little contrast between the light and dark areas of shot
- External diegetic sound
- We assume characters and audience can hear it
- Internal diegetic sound
- We assume character thinking and audience can hear it but the other characters cannot
- Motif
- an element in a film that is represented in a significant way
- Racking focus
- Shifting focus from one plane to another plane
- Exposition
- giving necessary background information
- Call sheet
- details all of the shots for the day
- verisimilitude
- a convincing appearance of truth
- Satellites
- minor plot events that add texture
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