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experimental film
a film that rejects the conventions of mainstream movies and explores the possibilites of the film medium. Best know: "Un chien andalou". Low-budget films, independently produced, short in length, and function to critique the ideology of narrative realism.
film theorist
a person who formulates a general explanation of the film medium or part of the medium
film(making) technique
any aspect of filmmaking, such as the use of sets, lighting, sound effects, music or editing
narratives
stories
running time
the time that elapses when a complete film is projected
event
in a narrative or story, either an action by a character or person or a happening (a change brought about by a force other than a person or character, such as a lighting strike)
meaning
an observation or a general statement about a subject, like a film
ideology
the fundamental beliefs and values of a society or social group
convention
a subject or technique that makers of texts and audiences accept as natural or typical in certain contexts
surrealism
in the 1920s and 1930s, a movement in European art, drama, literature, and film in which an attempt was made to portray the workings of the subconscious mind as manifested in dreams
self-reflexive
characteristic of a text-such as a play, novel, or film-that refers to or comments on itself as a text
leader
the clear or opaque piece of film that begins and concludes a reel of film
anamorphic lens
a lens that squeezes an image onto a film frame in the camera
compilation film
a film made by editing together clips from other films
title cards
a card or thin sheet of clear plastic on which is written or printed information included in a film
reading
an interpretation of a text or part of one
structure
the arrangement of all the parts of a text
cinematography
motion-picture photography
emulsion
a clear gelatin substance containing a thin layer of the light-sensitive particles (grains) that make up a photographic image
representation
a likeness of a subject created in a text
optical printer
a device consisting of a movie camera and one or more movie projectors used to reproduce images or parts of images from already processed film
slow motion
motion in which the action on the screen is slower than its real-life counterpart
abstract films
an experimental film whose subjects are shapes and perhaps sounds that do not represent the real world
installation art
an art exhibit or ensemble integrating various objects or arts, such as video images, photographs, furniture and recorded voices
experimental films political agenda
it needs to call attention to the decadents and inhumanity of the world in a morally defensive way
experimental films historical context
it was/is non-representational art
experimental films conventions
make filmmaking technique visible, do non-continuity editing and it presents you with distorted imagery
surrealism
a film that expresses the forbidden contests of the mind and the associational logic of dreams
surrealism conventions
non-narrative structure, what is in the unconscious is not pretty (shocking imagery), and focus on parental themes
surrealism origin
It all started with the psychology of Sigmund Froyd- he discovered the existence of the unconscious. All of the bad parts of the society that we don’t want to deal with.
The edible complex: we are animals before we are humans, aggressive tendencies, kill things that frustrate us, and sexual desires. Dreams that will tell you your own personal form.
surrealism examples
Psycho, Inception, and "Un chien andalou”
expressionism origin
sometimes its called German Expressionism, after WWI. Still influenced by Froyd; over time the world is going to drive you mad, you’re going to lose touch with reality, interested in madness, insanity, because of the conditions they were living in.
expressionism
dramatizes how oppressive social conditions drive people mad
expressionism conventions
the mise-en-scene should be dark, foreboding contexts, shoot your subjects with extreme camera angles, composition is asymmetrical, and you edit the film to highlight the emotional climate
expressionism examples
Missions of the Afternoon, Apocalypse Now, the original Frankenstein
Pink FLoyd members
Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Ricky Wright, Dave Mason, David Gilmour
Pink Floyd, The Wall: release date
1982
Pink Floyd, The Wall: director
Alana Parker
Pink Floyd, The Wall: animator
Gerald Scarfe
Pink Floyd, The Wall: main character [Pink] is played by
Bob Geldof
allusion
a reference in a text to a person, an event, or another text
animation
the process of photographing or creating a series of individual images normally with visual variations from one frame to the next so that later a showing of the series of still images gives the appearance of movement
live action
behavior by living (not animated) people or some other creatures
stop-motion cinematography
the process of filming a two- or three-dimensional subjects, stopping the camera, making some changes in the subject being filmed and resuming filming, either in the same laborious manner or by filming continuously
pixilation
animation that shows three-dimensional subjects (living or nonliving) moving in rapid, jerky ways that are impossible in the real world
fabula
a trem used by the Russian Formalist school of literary theory and later some film theorists to mean the reconstruction of all events of a non-chronological narrative (fictional or factual) into a chronological order
morphing
the alteration of a film image by degrees by using sophisticated computer software and multiple advanced computers
composition
the arrangement of settings, lighting, and subjects within the frame
designer
the person responsible for the appearance of much of what is photographed in a movie, including locations, costumes, and hairstyles
animation
it's shot one frame at a time, projecting at fast speed
drawn animation
the animator draws figures or objects on paper each drawing differing from the previous one in some slight way, the oldest and first type of animation
cel animation
involves drawing three aspects of animation on clear plastic or celluloid and sandwiching them together in a very unique way. Allows you to save time and money.
Examples: Bugs Bunny, Tweety Bird, Betty Boop, Popeye, Mickey Mouse, Pluto, Goofy, Snow White & the Seven Dwarves
cut out animation
here the animator actually works with a 2D figure to manipulate two-dimensional stick figures and changing positions
Examples: Frank Film and South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
1. Claymation [Three Dimensional Animation]
the animator makes or buys a figure made out of clay or something made out of plactecien then changes it one particular frame at a time
Examples: Gumby, Nick Park made Wallace and Grummet, Chicken Run
2. Model or Puppet Animation [Three Dimensional Animation]
working with objects that already exist and changing it slightly every time
Examples: Robot Chicken and The Nightmare Before Christmas
3. Pixilation [Three Dimensional Animation]
It takes an actual person (not shot in live action) but shoots it one phase at a time. Not with drawn things or 2D or 3D figures but actual live people
Examples: Neighbors, Chairy Tale, and The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb
computer imaging
its what a computer does; graphically manipulates frame by frame images through a computer software. A software program graphically manipulates images one frame at a time
Examples: Pixar (Steve Jobs) and Lucas Like Magic. Tron, Toy Story
Ghost in the Shell
Japanese Anime
Based on a popular comic book
Released in 1995
Genre is complicated: science fiction, film of cyber punk
Animation is hybrid, some of it is the oldest type (drawn animation), some is cel animation, some is computer graphics
Director: Mamoru Oshii
text
something that people produce or modify to communicate meaning
gender
a persons sexual identity as indicated by clothing, makeup, hairstyle, conversational style, body language, and other various signals
sterotypical
a commonplace simplified and in some ways inaccurate likeness of a subject created in a text
celluloid
Short for cellulose nitrate, film stock used until the early 1950s that could produce high-quality images but was subject to decomposition
Any transparent material used as the base for motion-picture film
Synonym for movie, as in "celluloid heroes"
realism
representatives that are widely believed to render its subjects faithfully
blaxploitation
a U.S. film movement from 1971 to 1976 consisting of low-budget movies usually made by African American filmmakers, with black characters, for black audiences. Example: Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
socialist realism
A soviet doctrine and style in force from the mid-1930s to the 1980s that decreed that Soviet texts, including films, must promote communism and the working class and must be "realistic"(actually, an idealized representation of the working class) so that they would be understandable to working people. After WWII it was also enforced in the East European countries under soviet rule.
style
the way that subjects are represented in a text, like a film
producer
a person in charge of the business and administrative aspects of making a film
track
to film while the camera is being moved around
flashbacks
a shot or a few shots, a brief scene, or (rarely) a sequence that interrups a narrative to show earlier events
filmic
characteristic of the film medium or appropriate to it, such as parallel editing
special effects
A shot unobtainable by live-action cinematography.
Includes freeze frames, most superimpositions, and many other effects, such as simulated explosions, live action combined with a painted background, and countless computer effects.
magic realism
a style in which occasionally widely improbable or impossible events are included in an otherwise realistic story
closure
a sense of coherence and completion at the end of a narrative
short film
variously defined but often regarded to as a film of less than 60 minutes
edit
to select and arrange the processed segments of photographed motion-picture film or videotape
microcinema
a program of untraditional short videos that may be shown on the internet or in a casual atmosphere such as a coffeehouse or that may be purchased on DVD
kino
an informal group that meets periodically to show short films shot and edited digitally
vaudeville
a type of live US theoretical show that consisted of various short acts and was the most popular form of entertainment in the US early in the twentieth century
cinerama
a wider-screen process involving the use of three synchronized projectors showing three contiguous images on a wide, curved screen
virtual realities
a 3D computer-generated environment that users experience by wearing special goggles, fiber-optic gloves, or perhaps body sensors
tint
the process of dyeing motion-picture film a color
nirate
film stock used until the early 1950s that could produce high-quality images but was subject to decomposition and combustion
aperture plate
in a motion picture projector, the rectangular opening that helps determine the size and shape of light sent from the projector to the screen
grainy
having graininess or rough visual texture in an image
high contrast
a photographic image with few gradations between the images darkest and lightest parts
dub
to replace sounds in a film's soundtrack after the film has been shot
movie palace
a large opulent type of movie theater built in the US and Europe between the mid-1910s and 1930s
nickelodeons
"five-cents theater"; a small, modest storefront converted into a theater for showing a brief program of short films
IMAX
"image maximization"; a canadian company's system for filming and showing very large motion screen pictures
IMAX dome
a theater in which film is projected through a fisheye lens onto a huge curved screen
feminism
a political perspective that seeks individual and cultural equality for women in a society historically constructed around male values
waves of feminism
1. Late 1800s. It focused upon legal and constitutional rights. It led to the passage of the 19th amendment.
2. Early 1950s. It was on social, economic, and cultural inequities. It led to the national organization of women and abortion rights and title 9 and almost but not quite, the equals rights amendments (ERA).
3. Late 1970s, most interesting to women today. Focused changed to texts (small things). Result was that we began to look more sensitively of the language we use and images we see and the advertisements we consume. Laura Mulvey.
"smog" metaphor
The patriarch or male point of view is kind of like smog in Los Angeles. You don’t notice it. We are so used to thinking it as natural we don’t realize the polluting quality to we get outside of it. It’s actually a form of pollution.
The Male Gaze Background
1. Scoptophilia; erotic component of looking at things. Images that turned us on.
2. Gender distinction in scotophillia; looking at sexual images.
3. If the film industry in Hollywood is run by men how does that effect our viewing experience? The movie industry.
The Male Gaze
means that the camera forces all views to watch the action from a male point of view
The Male Gaze gender implications
1. You evacuate a women of her subjectivity and make her an object (of male desire)
2. Take a women and break her into parts, close ups of boobs, butts and crotches.
"The Manchurian Candidate"
Released in 1962
Genre: political thriller
Director: John Frankenheimer
Came from a fiction book written by Richard Coedon
Performs: Frank Sinatra, Lawrence Harvey, Angela Lansbury, James Gregory.
"Thelma and Lousie"
Released in 1991
Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Susan Surandon, Genna Davis, Harvey Keitel, Brad Pitt, Michael Madsen
Pitch Phrases
1. “The Graduate Part 2”
2. “Africa Meets Pretty Woman”
3. “The Ghost meets the Manchurian Candidate”
satire
exaggerates the convention of a genre of humor with a critical intent of subvert it
parody
exaggerates the convention of a genre of humor with the purpose to reaffirm or honor the genre, to celebrate, reaffirm and honor it
Touch of Evil Opening
Orson Wells. Had the best opening shot, which was shot on a crane. In 3 minutes, he introduced you to everyone in the film and evaluated what the drama was going to be like.
The Player Opening
Better than touch of evil. Introduces you to main character, drama, and he critiques the Bourne type of movies. The opening is definitely satire. But the shot itself is actually parody.
The Player
Released in 1992
Directed by Robert Altman
Genre: Satire or Parody
Stars: 61 cameo appearances, Tim Robbins (Griffin Mills), Greta Scacchi (June Goodmenstada)