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lent
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slow
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actualities
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non-fiction films
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coûter
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to cost
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le montage
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editing
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outtakes
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the unused shots
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bonne idée!
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goo idea!
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Types of Early Films
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actualities
spectacles
topicals
sciences
fiction films
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F-stop
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Setting which determines exposure
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un groupe
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a music group
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kinetoscope/kinetograph
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Drawbacks:
• Camera not portable
• Studio-bound clautrophobic films
• Short film length (30-60secs)
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screenwriter
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scenarzysta, provides plot and dialogue.
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Imaging device
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Film stocks or CCDs
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soundtrack
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the music of a film
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louer une video
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to rent a video
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rooster icon
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Pathe's conclusion for copyright issue
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production phase
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making the film. includes scriptwriting/funding, preparation for filming, shooting, and assembly
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Kammerspielfilm
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roughly translated from German as Chamber Feature Film is the name given to films that incorporated the use of German Expressionist principles
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Pen tool
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Create key frames for audio
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un film de science-fiction
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a sci-fi movie
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Round Characters
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A character that is three-dimensional, unpredictable, complex, and capable of surprising us in a convincing way. Round characters may be major or minor characters. Compare flat character.
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art director
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oversees the construction and painting of the sets
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George Melies shorts
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The Untamable Whiskers-1904, gives hair to bald man through effects and trickery
The Cook in Trouble- 1904, narrative, slapstick, matte painting backgrounds
Tchin-Chao- 1904, Chinese magic show
The Wonderful Living Fan- 1904, elaborate costumes, magic trickery
The Mermaid- 1904, editing, trickery, tracking shot?
The Living Playing Cards- 1905, magic again
The Black Imp- 1905, narrative, victorian hierarchy? editing
The Enchanted Sedan Chair- 1907, magic
The Scheming Gambler's Paradise- 1906, society, narrative, real plot, social commentary?
The Hilarious Posters- 1907, editing, magic, narrative, posters come to life, materialism ruins society?
etc....
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Lantern slide shows
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slide shows played through Lanterns
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Enhancing
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Enhancement of each sound element to craft a multilayered sound design that works toward the same goal as the writing, directing etc.
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BP-5 montages
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i. Metric: Beat
ii. Rhythm: Determined by content. Ex.: Odessa Steps—soldiers' steps never have regular beat
iii. Tonal: Expressive pictorial quality Ex.: dominant gloom of Potemkin
iv. Overtonal: Full account of all aspects of a shot
v. Intellectual: Highest for: Eisenstein aims for "class-intellectual resonances'
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intertextuality
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product that could be read as a text.
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narrative film
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Because they were cheaper they became the typical product of the film industry in 1905
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Diegetic Sound
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Sound that originates from a source within a film's world. Compare nondiegetic sound.
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Man with a Movie Camera
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1929
Dziga Vertov (Kinoks/Cineeye Group)
A film about how to make a film
True cinema should expose all of its devices
city symphony
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Soviet montage theory
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an approach to understanding and creating cinema that relies heavily upon editing (montage is French for "build, organize").
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Polarizing filter
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Filter that cuts down or eliminates glare
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Hard effects track
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Either downloaded from a digital recording or from the internet.
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The Kuleshov Workshop
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-devoted almost exclusively to montage editing
-Goal: to discover the ways in which film editing or montage communicated meaning to an audience at a narrative, intellectual and emotional level at the same time.
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Je n'ai pas le temps
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I don't have time
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Plot Duration
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The elapsed time of the events within a story that a film chooses to tell. Compare screen duration and story duration.
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audience
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the people who watch a film in a cinema
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Overlap editing
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A technique when a moment, action or gesture is repeated more than once sometimes from different camera angles.
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Subjective sound
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In which you are trying to represent the POV and selective perception of a character
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Jean Renoir Film
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Bitch (First sound film); La Chienne (mise-en-scene developed an extensive use of moving camera to take advance of natural sync-sound recordings when filming in actual locations-- reduced need for montage); Bondu Saved From Drowning; The Crime of Monsieur Lange (film based of Renoir's political commitment to the popular front, left-wing parties
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subjective angle
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filmed from the point of view of a specific character
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High Definition
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Video that has 720 or 1080 lines of resolution
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Panning shots
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to pan from one side to the other/ aim camera one side to the other
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NTSC split field color bars
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video test pattern which is used to calibrate field production monitors
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