Art Exam 3

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Solarization

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dark room; type one manipulation. Photo has no light in dark room and then briefly is exposed to light (this creates a positive and negative image).

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Eadweard Muybridge

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Hired by govenor of California to prove that horses has all feet off the ground in full gallop. He wrote two books one about animal motion and the other about human motion. He made stop-motion photography .

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Stop-motion photography

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a moment when a single action is caught on camera.

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Continuous motion photography aka motion film

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film

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Short-range apparent motion

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evaluate motion around us all the time; brain understands images and can process images very quickly. Our brains will look at image on screen as actual motion.

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George Eastman

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In 1888 he developed celluloid film making it possible to string images together in a strip.

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Celluloid Film

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a strip of film that allows us to see film in a more fluid motion.

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Thomas Edison (Fred ott's sneeze, 1894)

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He made the first genuine motion picture and called it Fred Ott's Sneeze..it was a short video of a man sneezing. Only one person at a time could watch the film (called a nicolodean).

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Auguste and Louus Lumiere

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Invented the first motion picture projector. )

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D.W Griffith, Birth of a Nation, 1915

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silent film, D.W Griffith was the director. Based on a novel and was about two families being torn apart by the Civil War. Actors were exagerated and over dramatic, there was rampant racism throughout and full of simple morals and values.

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Director

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The camera operator and had the ideas for the movie (in the beginning of film)
Today the directors plan and organize the film and give direction.

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Cinematographer

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guides viewer through film or story visually.

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Feature-length film vs. Short film

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Feature-length films are at least 60 mins. in length and short films are no less than 5 mins short and no more than 15 mins. long.

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Full Shot

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showing actor from head to foot.

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Shot

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each unbroken sequence of movie frames.

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Medium Shot

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Camera is shot from a persons waist and up.

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Close-up

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Camera shoots a persons face.

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Extreme-close up

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Camera shoots a persons face and part of the face.

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Long shot

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Camera shoots from a far away view

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Pan shot

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Camera moves back and forth to right and left.

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Traveling Shot

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Camera moves forward and backward constantly in space (gets closer and closer to shot).

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Cross-cutting

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Two or more scenes alternated back and forth to advance story and build drama (editing technique; film is spliced together).

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Editing

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Spliced together in creative way.

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Flashback

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Introduces scenes into movie that were supposed to happen before scene began ( D.W Griffith was the first to create).

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Gone With The Wind, 1939

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used color to emphasize story (the color red was used a lot). Sound was used. Color can and did act as a narative in this film (main character and main subjects wore red a lot to be noticeable).The director was Victor Fleming.

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Orson Welles, Citizen Kane, 1941

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Orson Welles was the director. Welles produced and directed film, co-authored screen play, supervised editing and screen play. Welles played in the starring role.Film was based on the newspaper publisher "Will Randolph Hurst". Used five different sequences in the film. The film started with his death, then told about his life and then told about his death in the end. Shot by cinetographer Gregg Toland. There was editing; camera shots in high and low.

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Auteur

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Directors that make stylistic distinct films. (Example: Steven Spilberg).

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Alfred Htichcock

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Made many classic films (Virtigo, Psycho, Rear Window, The Birds, To Catch a Heir, North by North West). Made 14 sound films and 9 silent films. Later in his career he moved away from London to Hollywood to make films in America. He was a technical genius, and he was interested in camera movement. He would storyboard every fim that he shot.

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Animation

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Means to bring life to

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Animated film vs. animated cartoon

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Animated film is through stop-motion photography and animated cartoon is a series of sequencial drawings that can be handdrawn or computer generated.

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James Stuart Blackton, Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, 1906

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First American to create a animated film. He performed lightning sketches. He made Humorous Phases of Funny Faces in 1906. Filmed his lightning sketches.

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Winsor McCay

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American animator and vaudeville performer as well as a cartoonist. He created "Little Nemo in Summerland" and "Gertie the Dinosaur". First to view animation as a artform. All his animations were hand drawn and color was added to them with hand tented color. His cartoons were silent

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Gertie the Dinosaur, 1914

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created by Winsor McCay. The animation was hand drawn. It was 9 mins long and required 10,000 drawing to complete. Done in pen and ink so that he could go back and trace things if her needed to. This cartoon has a background that was traced by hand by his neighbor. McCay timed his breathing so that he could make "Gertie the Dinosaurs breathing as realistic as possible.

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Little Nemo

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Invented by Winsor McCay and it had color and it was also a silent animation.

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Steamboat Wille, 1928

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Walt Disney and Ub iwerks. The original Mickey Mouse animation cartoon. First cartoon that had sound, music and action. They chose popular music from vaudevilles, gave personality to characters and made an appealing design. Ub Irwerk created the design of Mickey Mouse and Walt Disney had the idea of Mickey Mouse and the cartoon.

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Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse

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Original characters in Steamboat Willie. Characters drawn by Ub Irwerk and ideas of character was Walt Disney

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Ub Irwerks

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He drew the chracter Mickey Mouse and collaberated with Walt Disney with the creation of StreamBoat Willie/ Mickey Mouse.

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Story board

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Key shots of film that are individually drawn out for each shot (can expand or contract depending on director) and can be easily edited.