Space in Cinema, Part One A Window Onto A World EMC 3000 Space in Cinema, Part 1 - A Window Onto A World Space in Cinema, Part One A Window Onto A World Edward Bowen MTSU EMC 3000 http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/1381639/Lecture-One-Space-Part-1-S2016

Space Space in Cinema is defined by “the frame.” The frame is a two-dimensional boundary, a rectangle with height and width, a window through which, at any given moment, a part of the world of the film is revealed to us.

Space “Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.” Martin Scorsese

Space Inside the frame is material, physical, specific. Outside the frame is imagination, suggestion, memory.

EMC 3000 Space in Cinema, Part 1 - A Window Onto A World Inside the frame is material, physical, specific. Outside the frame is imagination, suggestion, memory. Footnote http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/news/2012/07/the-blue-velvet-project-143/ http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/1381639/Lecture-One-Space-Part-1-S2016

Space Aside – The “frame” also defines time in cinema, but that’s a different definition of frame. More on that later.

Space The frame obviously comes in different sizes, depending on the viewer’s choice of medium.

Space An aside from Director David Lynch Watch http://youtu.be/wKiIroiCvZ0 (:31)

EMC 3000 Space in Cinema, Part 1 - A Window Onto A World The frame also comes in a variety of shapes. http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/1381639/Lecture-One-Space-Part-1-S2016

EMC 3000 Space in Cinema, Part 1 - A Window Onto A World The frame’s shape is described by a ratio of its width to its height, its aspect ratio. http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/1381639/Lecture-One-Space-Part-1-S2016

EMC 3000 Space in Cinema, Part 1 - A Window Onto A World Aspect Ratios Footnote ttp://www.gcmstudio.com/filmspecs/filmspecs.html http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/1381639/Lecture-One-Space-Part-1-S2016

EMC 3000 Space in Cinema, Part 1 - A Window Onto A World Standard or Academy ratio (4 X 3 or 1.33:1). In adopting the 35mm format, early filmmakers established the standard aspect ratio as a classical rectangle with a ratio of four units of width to three units of height. Thus if the projected image is twenty feet wide it will be fifteen feet high. This ratio dominated cinema from its birth until the 1950s. http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/1381639/Lecture-One-Space-Part-1-S2016

EMC 3000 Space in Cinema, Part 1 - A Window Onto A World Aspect Ratios – 1.33:1 or 4:3 Academy Ratio http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/1381639/Lecture-One-Space-Part-1-S2016

EMC 3000 Space in Cinema, Part 1 - A Window Onto A World Wider aspect ratios were adopted in the 1950s as one of many strategies to complete with television and its small square-ish image. http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/1381639/Lecture-One-Space-Part-1-S2016

EMC 3000 Space in Cinema, Part 1 - A Window Onto A World Aspect Ratios – 1.66:1 European and British Standard Widescreen Used beginning in the 1950s http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/1381639/Lecture-One-Space-Part-1-S2016

EMC 3000 Space in Cinema, Part 1 - A Window Onto A World Aspect Ratios – 1.85:1 Standard Widescreen Used beginning in the 1950s (May, 1953) http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/1381639/Lecture-One-Space-Part-1-S2016

EMC 3000 Space in Cinema, Part 1 - A Window Onto A World Aspect Ratios – 2:35:1 Anamorphic of Super 35mm Widescreen Used beginning in the 1950s (Standardized in 1957) http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/1381639/Lecture-One-Space-Part-1-S2016

EMC 3000 Space in Cinema, Part 1 - A Window Onto A World Aspect Ratios – 2.76:1 Ultra Panavision 70 Used for a brief period beginning in the 1950s (1957 – 1966) Resurrected for “The Hateful Eight” (2015) http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/1381639/Lecture-One-Space-Part-1-S2016

EMC 3000 Space in Cinema, Part 1 - A Window Onto A World READING http://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/film-studies-101-aspect-ratios/ http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/1381639/Lecture-One-Space-Part-1-S2016

EMC 3000 Space in Cinema, Part 1 - A Window Onto A World The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) Director Wes Anderson used different aspect ratios to suggest different eras. 1930s 1960s 1985 to Present Footnote http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/03/06/grand_budapest_hotel_aspect_ratios_new_wes_anderson_movie_has_three_different.htm l “The Grand Budapest Hotel” (Wes Anderson, 2014) http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/1381639/Lecture-One-Space-Part-1-S2016

EMC 3000 Space in Cinema, Part 1 - A Window Onto A World IMAX - Back to Square One In 2000, to compete with home theater and digital devices and their relatively small screens, feature films began to be shot and released in IMAX. http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/1381639/Lecture-One-Space-Part-1-S2016

EMC 3000 Space in Cinema, Part 1 - A Window Onto A World IMAX is 1.36:1, almost exactly academy ratio. But … Standard IMAX screen is 22 × 16.1 m (72 × 52.8 ft) http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/1381639/Lecture-One-Space-Part-1-S2016

EMC 3000 Space in Cinema, Part 1 - A Window Onto A World IMAX – 1.36:1 Standard IMAX screen is 22 × 16.1 m (72 × 52.8 ft) Watch - The Dark Knight Rises Premieres in IMAX at Liberty Science Center http://youtu.be/Wm2vIaD3GYQ http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/1381639/Lecture-One-Space-Part-1-S2016

EMC 3000 Space in Cinema, Part 1 - A Window Onto A World Aspect Ratio - Summary Footnote https://vimeo.com/68830569 http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/1381639/Lecture-One-Space-Part-1-S2016