Production Design Dick Tracy Batman Returns Hugo

Basic Tools of Production Design:  Sets  Do the Right Thing (p. 97)  Dr. Strangelove (p. 96)  Gone with the Wind (p. 89)  Costumes  My Fair Lady, Star Wars and Dracula (pp )  Mattes and Miniatures  Black Narcissus (p. 98)  North by Northwest (p. 99)  Fight Club (p. 99)  Zodiac (p. 100)  Lord of the Rings (p. 102)

Evolution of Design Styles in Sci-Fi Films German Expressionism ( ) Film Noir ( ) Futuristic Modernist Style: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Modernist/Noir: Alien (1979) Future Noir: Blade Runner (1982) Hollywood Style Realism: Star Wars (1977) The Fifth Element (1997)

Acting in Film Five Unique Characteristics That Shape Film Acting: What Are They?

Stars  The Star Persona  Composite personality established across many films  Greater than the performance in any single film  Actors with Narrow Range  Arnold Schwarzenegger  Julia Roberts  Actors with Broad Range  Meryl Streep  Denzel Washington

Technical Acting  Dominant style of screen performance during 1930s-1950s (also called English style)  Little emphasis on introspection and emotion  Creation of character from careful observation  Starts with the outside world, rather than looking within for reality

Method  Internalized, richly psychological performance style  Formal training at New York’s Actor’s Studio  Emotional memory and sense recall exercises  Emphasis on inhabiting the character psychologically

Method  Method Acting  Begins with Lee Strasberg’s NY workshops  Brought to cinema in the 1950s by new generation of actors  Paul Newman, Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift  Currently the most influential US acting style  Robert DeNiro, Sean Penn, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino

The Actor As an Element of Visual Design  Unique body language of the performer  Typage  Social  Psychological  Choreographing performance  Integrating it with lighting, camera position and movement: Notorious