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Producer

Raises funds for the film, hires key personnel, finding budget to distribute film

Director

Directs actors, picks location, flow of film up to first edit, lighting. Post production: work with editor until first edit.

Line Producer

Looks at script and knows how much each page will cost to make depending on locations, props, etc.

Executive Producer

Usually main investor of money.

Screenwriters

Good researchers so story is accurate, create story, come up with main actors. Sometimes hired by studio to adapt book into movie.

Production Manager

Make sure filming stays on schedule and within budget.

Assistant Directors

Assists production manager and director (they say "quiet on the set, ready, roll camera")

Script Supervisor

Makes sure there is continuity in the script and shots.

Story Producer

Come up with scenario story, especially for particular episodes of the show.

Location Manager

Come up with locations and get permission.

Cinematographer

(Camera and lighting) lighting, framing of scenes, deciding shots/ lenses.

First Assistant Camera

While operator is recording they adjust the focus while recording, move camera or change lenses.

Second Assistant Camera

Clapper, loader, keep record of different film stocks in camera.

Digital Imaging Technician

Know all camera settings and how it works.

Steadicam operator

Steady hand operator, knowledge in steadicam technology.

Motion Control Technician

Operate camera at crazy angles and shots.

Production Sound Mixer

Makes sure there's no background noise like airplanes.

Grips

Trained lighters and technicians

Key Grip

Chief grip on set.

Gaffer

Number one lighting person

Production Designer

Comes up with physical visual appearance of the film, deciding what is in front of the camera.

Art Director

Works directly with people who create the set.

Style

How a film unfolds in images and sound.

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.

Referential Meaning

Plot Summary

Explicit Meaning

Point of the film.

Implicit Meaning

Themes.

Symptomatic Meaning

Ideology (treats implicit and explicit meanings of film as manifestations of wider set of values characteristic of a whole society

Kinetoscope

Single viewer with light bulb behind rapidly changing images) - invented by Thomas Edison

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

16mm Camera Film

Old, used mostly in old TV shows.

35mm Camera Film

Common used for film now.

Palmcorder

Shitty hand held video camera.

Prosumer

Professional digital camera.

Red, Green, Blue

Primary colors.

Yellow, Cyan, Magenta

When combining primary colors.

Hue

Color's position on the color wheel.

Brightness

Addition of black/white to a color.

Saturation

Purity of color.

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.

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.

Magic Hour

Sunrise and sunset (sun just below the horizon)

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.

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.

Lighting Kit

Reflectors, gloves, stands, diffusers, etc.

Incandescent Light

(2700-3300K) yellow-orange

Halogen or Tungsten

(3200K) yellow

LED

(3200-4800K) blue

HMI

(6000K) reproduces daylight or moonlight.

Black Wrap

Used to make shapes around lights so it could be a much narrower beam of light coming out of a lamp.

Scrim

Control intensity of light.

ND Filter

On camera, reduces amount of light coming into camera (outside)

Soft Box, Umbrellas

Diffuses light.

Gobos (Flags or Cookies)

Creates cool patterns by shining light through template with shapes in it like cookie cutters.

Key light (3 Point)

Hottest source on subject, not always in front of actor.

Fill Light (3 Point)

Illuminates shadows.

Backlight [ Kicker or Hair Light] (3 Point)

Creates a separation between the subjects and the background (stand out)

Low Key Lighting

High contrast (night time)

High Key Lighting

Low contrast (afternoon)

Lighting Through Atmosphere

Smoke or mist, light shines through it creating beams, best with backlight illuminating atmospheric conditions.

Kinetic Movement

Creates visceral reaction.

Directional Movement

Calling attention to something.

Symbolic Movement

Signifying movement.

Tripod

Pan (left/right), tilt (up/down), view form one axis (boom is when you you crank the tripod moving the camera upward slowly)

Body

Handheld, steadicam, view moves with the human action.

Wheels

Tracking, dolly (forward/back), trucking (left/right), view moves with scene action.

Mount

Crane aerial, view moves with gran perspective.

Lens Movement

Zoom and rack focus, view selects, expands, or distorts subject.

"Straight Story"

- Tilt from road to sky then back to road.


- Lot of pans, emphasize pov.


- Effect? Slow motion.

"Goodfellas"

- Steadicam


- Challenge to carry camera through scene.


- Change if lighting and sound.

"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.