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Film Lecture Final
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 1
12/06/2010

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Term
Max Aaronson
Definition

Bronco Billy

First Arkansas Film Maker

In Great Train Robbery (1903-Edwin S. Porter)

Term
The Gold Rush
Definition

Charlie Chaplin

1924- United Artist

 

Term
Charlie Chaplin
Definition

Gold Rush 1903. 

Outsider vs. Society is central theme

other themes awkward walk, lack of food, cast-off or inadequate clothing, romance, romance, lack of shelter, comic feet, and shoes

Created Tramp character in 1917

Came from poor background

Term

Two types of P.O.V.

 

Objective

 

Subjective

Definition

1) neutral recording of subject

2) what a character in the film is seeing or reflects the perspective of the director, conscious of someone behind the camera

Term
Gives relationship to subject
Definition
Camera Angle
Term

Pedestal-extending tripod

Camera Movement

Definition
the camera is physically moving up or down
Term
crab camera movement
Definition
camera is going all over the place
Term
tracking shot
Definition
camera mounted on dolly and physically moves along on a railroad track with the subject
Term
tilt
Definition
vertical equivalent of a pan
Term

Deep Focus 

Camera Adjustment

Definition
Everything is Clear
Term
Shallow Focus
Definition
part of frame in focus (subject) and background out of focus (selective focus)
Term
Selective Focus
Definition
One thing is in focus and something is out of focus (not necessarily shallow focus)
Term
Rack Focus
Definition
Selective focus changes during the course of the film
Term
Soft Focus
Definition

using a diffusion filter

"Gauze shot"

Term
Mask
Definition

Iris in/out

A way of dividing up parts of the film

ex. Binocular mask

Term
Matte Filter
Definition

matte in front(or behind) lens and film half of the scene

switch the matte

film the other side of the shot

looks like it was filmed at once

Term
What relates to how a motion picture is put together?
Definition
Film Editing
Term
What is the structure of the film
Definition

Film Form

Determined by how the individual parts of a picture are organized to give a film its overall sturcture

Fram

Shot

Scene

Sequence

Term
Frame
Definition

most basic unit

a film is made up of individual frames or still images

Term
Shot
Definition
footage photographed during a continuous run of the camera
Term
Cutting
Definition

1) director wants to stop filming

2) editor is said to "cut" the picture when putting together the individual pieces of film at the time it is being edited

3) the most common transitions between shots

Term
The Hoser Hosed
Definition
Complete shot in one relatively short shot
Term
Scene
Definition
group of shots in a series associated with a segment, in the story that generally happens at the same time or place
Term
Sequence 
Definition
a relatively large segment of a given motion picture, consisting of one or more scenes
Term
Continuity Editing
Definition

Invisible editing, Hollywood editing, or decoupage

realistic appears

real time & real space

Term
Decoupage
Definition
Continuity Editing
Term
Master Scene Technique
Definition
employs what is called an "establishing" or "cover" shot to set up the scene
Term
Parallel Action (crosscutting)
Definition
cutting back and forth between two or more narrative actions occurring at the same time but in different place
Term
eye-line match
Definition
employs a shot where the subject is looking at the something, then showing that something
Term
match-on action
Definition

matched cut

action in the first show is continued in the following shot

Term
the shot-reverse shot
Definition
reverse angles (like in a conversation)
Term
Editing techniques that clue the viewer to temporal and spatial transitions between parts of a film
Definition
subtitle, fade, dissolve, wipe, swish pan, iris-in (out)
Term
Buster Keaton
Definition

(gets finger cut off)

Themes in film machine, accident, and miracle

Human vs. Fate

The General 1927

Term
Montage
Definition

formalistic approach to editing based on conflict

doesn't attempt to duplicate real time & space

 

Russian Montage

Identified with the filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein

Term
Sergei Eisenstein
Definition

Russian Montage

Strike 1924

Battleship Potemkin 1925

Term
Strike
Definition

1924

Sergei Eisenstein

Term
Battleship Potemkin
Definition

revolutionary montage

 

Term
Montage Editing Films
Definition

Strike 1924 Eisenstein

Battleship Potemkin 1925 Eisenstein

Intolerance1916  D.W. Griffith

Menilmontant 1924 Dmitri Kirsanoff

Roue (The Wheel) 1921 Abel Gance

Ballet Mecanique 1924 Fernand Leger

Term
Metric Montage
Definition
manipulating tempo
Term
Rhythmic Montage
Definition
screen movement
Term
Tonal Montage
Definition
editing color and texture
Term
graphic montage
Definition
changing geometric patterns of lines
Term
over-tonal montage
Definition
viewer's emotions
Term
intellectual montage
Definition
editing of ideas
Term
Memento
Definition

2000

Christopher Nolan

Term
Lee De Forest
Definition

Audio Tube

1907(6)

Term
Don Juan
Definition

Warner Bros

1926

Released with musical sound track (first)

Synchronized sound

Term
Synchronized sound
Definition

precise matching of sound to image

 

Term
The Jazz Singer
Definition

1927

Lip Sync Al Joison

"You ain't heard nothing yet!"

Term

Transition from silent to talking

(years)

Definition
1927-1932
Term
Modern Times
Definition

1936

Charlie Chaplin

Last silent feature

Term
Diegetic Sound
Definition

Synchronous

audience can hear and those in film can hear

Term
Non-Diegetic
Definition

asynchronous

only audience can hear sound

Term
Types of Sound
Definition

voice

music

sound effects

silence

Term
Convention
Definition
an object, image, theme, or type of behavior associated with a type of genre
Term
icon
Definition

a convention whose symbolism goes beyond its surface appearance or function within a genre

 

Term
invention
Definition
new element added to a genre
Term
42nd Street 
Definition

1933

Warner Brothers

revamped musical directed by Lloyed Bacon

Term
Film Noir
Definition

black film

in many american crime and detective films

First identified by Frank Nino 1946

downbeat narrative themes

dark visuals

ex. The Maltese Falcon 1941 Bogart

Term
Alfred Hitchcock
Definition

crime in progress (suspense)

Psycho 1960

Human vs. Guilt

formalism & realism

German Expressionism

1) suspense

2) voyeurism- peeping tom

3) MacGuffin- something that seems suspenseful

4)cameo appearance

5) human vs. guilt

Term
Psycho
Definition

1960

Alfred Hitchcock

Term
MacGuffin
Definition
seemingly important
Term
  voyeurism
Definition
peeping tom
Term
The Documentary or Nonfiction film grew out of the motion picture medium's ability to...
Definition
"document" or "record"
Term
D.W. Griffith 
Definition

father of motion pictures

The Birth of Nation 1915

Term
The Birth of Nations
Definition

1915 D.W. Griffith

controversial film about civil war

Term
Four Principal properties of the motion picture
Definition

1) mise-en-scene or composition of image

2) sound

3) camera work

4) editing

Term
Aspects of Camerawork 
Definition

1) camera placement

2) camera adjustment

3) camera movement

Term
Kammerspiele
Definition

"intimate theater"

Max Reinhardt

Carl Mayer author of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (directed by Wiene) (expressionism) helped developed Kammerspielfilm and wrote The Last Laugh 1924 (formalism)

Variety (1925)

communication through subtle facial expression

 

Term
What if film used for?
Definition

1) entertainment

2) persuasion

3) information

4) aesthetic appreciation

Term
Christopher Nolan
Definition
Memento 2000
Term
Synchronous Sound
Definition
Diegetic- audience can hear and those in the film can hear
Term
Who employed Human vs. Guilt in their films?
Definition
Alfred Hitchcock employed _____ vs. ________
Term
In early film what was the most common type of film? (fiction, nonfiction, documentary, etc?)
Definition
Nonfiction
Term
 Stagecoach
Definition
1939 Film that stereotyped Indians
Term
The Last of the Mohicans
Definition

Book 1833

Movie 1920 and 1992 

Takes place in 1757 during the French and Indian War

Term
____ Narrative film replaced nonfiction
Definition
1907 ______ replaced ________
Term
Term "documentary" coined in ________
Definition
1926 term used for the first time ____________
Term
James Young-deer 
Definition

wild west director

1910 White Fawn's Devotion

Term
White Fawn's Devotion
Definition

1910 James Young-Deer

Controversial move with interracial marriage

Term

Robert Flaherty 

Definition

father of documentary

Man of the North 1922

Moana 1926

could be seen as dishonest because he didn't let audience know his films were a reenactment 

Term

Gary Cooper commentary on the West

           Uses Still Images and Nostalgia

 

Definition

1961 Real West television series

Term

Auguste Lumiere

Definition

created actualities later called “newsreel” in 1910

 

Term

In the Land of the Headhunters

Definition

1914 Edward S. Curtis

inspired Flaherty 

Term

Nanook of the North

Definition

1922 Robert Flaherty

(sometimes considered first documentary)

was re-enactment of Inuit life prior to western influence (sometimes called Eskimo)

 

Term
Moana
Definition

1926 Flaherty

Word documentary coined in 1926 by John Grierson to describe Flaherty’s film

Term

John Grierson 

Definition

Word documentary coined in 1926 by _________ to describe Flaherty’s film Moana.

 

Term

Grass (1925) 

Definition

Cooper and Schoedsack

influenced by documentary Man of the North

Term

Chang (1927)

Definition

Cooper and Schoedsack

inspired by Man of the North documentary

Term

Cooper and Schoedsack

Definition

The Grass (1926)

Chang (1927)

King Kong (1930)

Term
Stark Love
Definition

Karl Brown 1927

documentary on rural people in Kansas

 

Term

Dziga Vertov

Definition

The Man with a Movie Camera (1929)

"kino-eye"

Funded by Russian government

Term
kino-eye
Definition

 

Developing a formalistic style that called attention to the medium in his documentaries called __________. Show’s what we are seeing is not necessarily reality, but what he sees as reality

used in The Man with a Movie Camera

Vertov

Term
John Grierson
Definition

coined word documentry (1926)

Drifters (1929), Night Mail (1936), Housing Problems (1937)

educate the viewer about their subjects

Term
Drifters
Definition

1929

 about the process of fishing industry

Grierson

Term
Night Mail
Definition

1936

postal service process in England

Grierson

Term

Documentrary movement slowed in 1929 because of economny

last film attempted to be made of this documentary type

Definition

Sergei Eisenstein's Que Viva Mexico (1931-32)

Term

most documentaries were propaganda

Definition
1929-1959 
Term

Leni Riefenstahl

Definition

The Blue Light

Asked to make documentary for the Nazi party: Nazi Party rally in Nuremburg called Triumph of the Will (1934-36)

 

Term
The Blue Light
Definition

Leni Riefenstahl

Caught the attention of Hitler

Term

Triumph of the Will (1934-36)

Definition

Leni Riefenstahl

Would make if:

1)   She funded her own film

2)   No Nazi could review film until after finished

3)   Hitler never asked to make her another film

·      It took her 2 years to edit.

·      Sent a warning to the world that they were a powerful country. Makes Hitler into a God-like entity.

·      Staged documentary

Term
Joseph Goebbels
Definition

was the minister of propaganda in Germany and he requires all media to go through his office.

 

Term
Frank Capra
Definition

It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to town (1936), Mr. Smith goes to Washington (1937)

Why We Fight- a series of seven documentary films

Used footage from Triumph of the Will and other enemy propaganda films to make his series

The films were considered so educational used for soldiers and civilians

Term
Alain Renais
Definition

Night and Fog (1955)

Term
Night and Fog 
Definition

1955 Alain Renais

Noted film about WWII and the Holocaust

1)   Admit it happened

2)   Take responsibility

3)   Memory (doesn’t happen again)

Term

Jean Rouch

Definition

provided a new approach to documentary filmmaking 1959 that tried to counter subjective bias

Term
Cinema verite
Definition

Jean Rouch

a filmmaker attempts to be as objective, about the subject being filmed, as possible

Term
Michael Moore
Definition

regular guy attitude in films

very controversial

First film: Roger and Me (1989)

Bowling for Columbine (2002)

Sicko (2007

Slackers Uprising (2008)

Capitalism:ALoveStory(2009)


 

Fahrenheit 9/11


 

Term
Roger and Me (1989)
Definition

Moore

 Addresses why General Motors CEO gets a raise when GM is going through an unemployment problem

Term
Bowling for Columbine
Definition

2002

 An examination of America’s obsession with guns and violence

Term
Sicko
Definition

2007 Moore

Challenges America’s private insurance driven health care system

Term
Slacker's Uprising
Definition

Moore 2008

Wanted to get young people to vote

Term
Capitalism: A Love Story 
Definition

2009 Moore

Examines the impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans 

Term

Fahrenheit 9/11

Definition

Moore

highest grossing documentary

 A film about the Bush Administration that sought to expose the financial ties between the Bush family and the relative of terrorist Osama bin Laden

 

Term

Orson Welles

Definition

·      Broadcast War of the Worlds (novel by H.G. Wells 1898) in 1938 over radio as a broadcast (prank)

1st movie Citizen Kane (1941)

Term
Citizen Cane
Definition

1941 Orson Welles

critic say best movie of all time

realistic as possible

news reports

Term

The Kiss 

Definition

1896

first scandal in short film

Term
Fatima’s Dance.
Definition

1897

scandalous belly dancer

Term

was the first state to pass a law creating a state board of censorship in 1911.

Definition
Pennsylvania was the first state to - in 1911
Term
Mutual decision
Definition

1915

The Court ruled that film did not come under the protection of the First Amendment that protects freedom of speech. Governments could censor film if they felt it necessary.

Term
Battle of Elderbush Gulch 
Definition

1913

·    D.W. Griffith shows a stereotype of Indians

Term
Birth of a Nation 
Definition

1915

D.W. Griffith stereotypes black people and controversial story line about the KKK.

Term
Will Hays 
Definition
agreed to help give Hollywood a “clean image” and became head of a new self-regulatory organization entitled the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA). 
Term

Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) 

Definition

This self-censoring body was soon referred to as the “Hays Office." (1920s)

Headed by Will Hays

Term
The 1952 - essentially reversed the Court’s previous position established in the Mutual decision. The Supreme Court now agreed that motion pictures were covered by the First Amendment’s protection of freedom of speech.
Definition
Miracle decision
Term
In the 1960's instead of censoring movies the MPAA-
Definition
Rated Movies in the -
Term

  Connotation of  “X” rating was with porn, so they created - for “artistic” films of such nature, but it did not work

Definition
NC17
Term
United States Supreme Court made a third ruling 
Definition

·      In 1973 the ------that affected film censorship. This time the Court decided that the definition of obscenity can be determined by “community standards.”

Term
Eye of the Storm
Definition
1970 - exercise in prejudice that teacher Jane Elliot conducted with her third grade class
Term
Crash
Definition

(2004) by Paul Haggis uses the audience’s awareness of stereotypes and prejudicial attitudes.

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