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Producer |
Raises funds for the film, hires key personnel, finding budget to distribute film |
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Director |
Directs actors, picks location, flow of film up to first edit, lighting. Post production: work with editor until first edit. |
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Line Producer |
Looks at script and knows how much each page will cost to make depending on locations, props, etc. |
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Executive Producer |
Usually main investor of money. |
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Screenwriters |
Good researchers so story is accurate, create story, come up with main actors. Sometimes hired by studio to adapt book into movie. |
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Production Manager |
Make sure filming stays on schedule and within budget. |
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Assistant Directors |
Assists production manager and director (they say "quiet on the set, ready, roll camera") |
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Script Supervisor |
Makes sure there is continuity in the script and shots. |
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Story Producer |
Come up with scenario story, especially for particular episodes of the show. |
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Location Manager |
Come up with locations and get permission. |
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Cinematographer |
(Camera and lighting) lighting, framing of scenes, deciding shots/ lenses. |
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First Assistant Camera |
While operator is recording they adjust the focus while recording, move camera or change lenses. |
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Second Assistant Camera |
Clapper, loader, keep record of different film stocks in camera. |
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Digital Imaging Technician |
Know all camera settings and how it works. |
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Steadicam operator |
Steady hand operator, knowledge in steadicam technology. |
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Motion Control Technician |
Operate camera at crazy angles and shots. |
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Production Sound Mixer |
Makes sure there's no background noise like airplanes. |
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Grips |
Trained lighters and technicians |
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Key Grip |
Chief grip on set. |
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Gaffer |
Number one lighting person |
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Production Designer |
Comes up with physical visual appearance of the film, deciding what is in front of the camera. |
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Art Director |
Works directly with people who create the set. |
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Style |
How a film unfolds in images and sound. |
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Content |
Characters, story, themes; content dictates style, style affects our understanding of content, content and style are NOT mutually exclusive so they DO affect each other. |
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Referential Meaning |
Plot Summary |
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Explicit Meaning |
Point of the film. |
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Implicit Meaning |
Themes. |
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Symptomatic Meaning |
Ideology (treats implicit and explicit meanings of film as manifestations of wider set of values characteristic of a whole society |
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Kinetoscope |
Single viewer with light bulb behind rapidly changing images) - invented by Thomas Edison |
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Cinematograph |
Used as a camera, for developing and exhibiting the film, finally people can view films together in groups) - invented by Auguste and Louis Luminiere |
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16mm Camera Film |
Old, used mostly in old TV shows. |
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35mm Camera Film |
Common used for film now. |
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Palmcorder |
Shitty hand held video camera. |
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Prosumer |
Professional digital camera. |
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Red, Green, Blue |
Primary colors. |
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Yellow, Cyan, Magenta |
When combining primary colors. |
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Hue |
Color's position on the color wheel. |
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Brightness |
Addition of black/white to a color. |
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Saturation |
Purity of color. |
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Color Temperature |
Degree of blue or red in white light is measured in Kelvins. White light with more blue has a higher temperature, white light with more red has a lower temperature. Use gels on lights or put a filter on camera to adjust that. |
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Example of Lighting |
To frame bright red flame you could put Cyan (opposite of red on color wheel) in background so that it pops, proceeding/preceding shots be predominantly Cyan. |
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Magic Hour |
Sunrise and sunset (sun just below the horizon) |
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3 Ways to Control Color Production |
1. Color of objects in front of the camera. 2. Filters on the camera or on the lights. 3. Time/location will affect color. |
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White Balance |
Telling camera what white is... Aim camera at a white car to tell it this is what standard white looks like under these conditions. |
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Lighting Kit |
Reflectors, gloves, stands, diffusers, etc. |
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Incandescent Light |
(2700-3300K) yellow-orange |
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Halogen or Tungsten |
(3200K) yellow |
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LED |
(3200-4800K) blue |
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HMI |
(6000K) reproduces daylight or moonlight. |
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Black Wrap |
Used to make shapes around lights so it could be a much narrower beam of light coming out of a lamp. |
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Scrim |
Control intensity of light. |
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ND Filter |
On camera, reduces amount of light coming into camera (outside) |
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Soft Box, Umbrellas |
Diffuses light. |
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Gobos (Flags or Cookies) |
Creates cool patterns by shining light through template with shapes in it like cookie cutters. |
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Key light (3 Point) |
Hottest source on subject, not always in front of actor. |
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Fill Light (3 Point) |
Illuminates shadows. |
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Backlight [ Kicker or Hair Light] (3 Point) |
Creates a separation between the subjects and the background (stand out) |
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Low Key Lighting |
High contrast (night time) |
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High Key Lighting |
Low contrast (afternoon) |
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Lighting Through Atmosphere |
Smoke or mist, light shines through it creating beams, best with backlight illuminating atmospheric conditions. |
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Kinetic Movement |
Creates visceral reaction. |
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Directional Movement |
Calling attention to something. |
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Symbolic Movement |
Signifying movement. |
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Tripod |
Pan (left/right), tilt (up/down), view form one axis (boom is when you you crank the tripod moving the camera upward slowly) |
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Body |
Handheld, steadicam, view moves with the human action. |
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Wheels |
Tracking, dolly (forward/back), trucking (left/right), view moves with scene action. |
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Mount |
Crane aerial, view moves with gran perspective. |
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Lens Movement |
Zoom and rack focus, view selects, expands, or distorts subject. |
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"Straight Story" |
- Tilt from road to sky then back to road. - Lot of pans, emphasize pov. - Effect? Slow motion. |
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"Goodfellas" |
- Steadicam - Challenge to carry camera through scene. - Change if lighting and sound. |
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"Children of Men" |
- Mount inside car on an arm. - Close up, feel like in car, realism. - Device built to come apart and get view outside the car. |