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Questions for this evening. . .
1. Choose three film techniques that are used consistently in filmmaking.
2. Define these techniques in your own words and explain what their intended effect is.
BUT FIRST. . .
CONVENTIONS OF FILMConventions o establishing shot-image that identifies where
an action shot is to take place (for example, the front of a house)
o close-upo soundo background musico point of view-usually a close-up of one
character, followed by whatever is supposed to be seen by him/her.
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CONVENTIONS OF FILM
Conventionso elongated moment-The slowing down of time.
What may take a couple of seconds in real time is broken down into a number of separate shots.
o lingering take-When the camera stays longer than expected on an object, a scene, a face.
odissolve-when one scene fades into the next.
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CONVENTIONS OF FILMConventionso freeze frames when the action stops briefly and an image
remains on a screen as if it were a photograph.o tracking shot when the camera, on wheels, moves in, out,
up, down, or around, as in the famous train depot sequence in Gone with the Wind, when the camera moves out closely revealing the number of dead.
o cut (1) when the director stops the shooting on a scene; (2) when one scene is quickly replaced by another.
o flip when one screen image is turned quickly around, being replaced by another. It is different from the cut because the image is literally flipped around.
o Special effects
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EARLY MILESTONESInventiono Thomas
Edison & projector technology
o “peep show”
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MAJOR FILM GENRESSlapstick Comedyo Chaplin & the Little Tramp – Gold
Rush, Modern Times Farceo Marx Brothers – A Night at the
Opera
MAJOR FILM GENRES
Film Noiro Huston - The Maltese
Falcono Wilder - Double
Indemnityo Truffaut - Shoot the
Piano PlayerPearson Longman © 2009
MAJOR FILM GENRESRomantic Comedyo When Harry Met Sally (1989)o As Good as It Gets (1997)o others you can think of?
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MAJOR FILM GENRES
The Westerno High Noono Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kido Dances with Wolveso Open Range*o3:10 to Yuma*
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MAJOR FILM GENRESDocumentaries & Docudramas Documentaries – a nonfiction film that usually
has a narrator but not a structured storyline.
Docudrama – a nonfiction film that has not only a narrator but characters, either real people or actors, and a story line.
Docudrama Examples: Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, and An Inconvenient Truth
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MAJOR FILM GENRESAnimated Film
o Snow White and the Seven Dwarfso Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
o Ratatouille
NOTES ON CRITICAL VIEWING
Some criteria to determine the merit of a film:o Use of a style unique to cinemao Characters with complex inner liveso Relevance to the timeso Integrityo Avoidance of stereotypeso Gravity of themeo No violations of probability