FILM: THE MOVING IMAGE “There is something magical about films. The person you are looking at is also somewhere else at the same time. That is a condition of the god.” - Joseph Campbell
MOTION PICTURES The Movies one stop removed from: one stop removed from: photographyphotography comics / cartoonscomics / cartoons
THOMAS EDISON Thomas Edison
THOMAS EDISON 1891 – Fred Ott’s Sneeze
LUMIERE BROTHERS 1894 – August and Louis Lumiere Cinematographe
LUMIERE BROTHERS 1895
GEORGE MELIES
DW GRIFFITH Epics Helped found
COLOR vs. B/W The Great Train Robbery The World, the Flesh and the Devil
GERMAN FILM Leni Riefenstahl
TECH SPECS Projection Rate Vitaphone Phonofilm
TECH SPECS Cinerama CinemaScope Imax / Omnimax
TECH SPECS “Pan and Scan” Letterbox
TECH SPECS 2. Shot 1. Frame
TECH SPECS Shots can be: Static Static camera, lens does not movecamera, lens does not move Dynamic Dynamic camera, lens manipulated and maneuveredcamera, lens manipulated and maneuvered
FILM EDITING Wipe Dissolve
FILM EDITING Fade-Out / Fade-In * Defocus Shot Rack Focus *
FILM EDITING Cut Quick Cutting *
FILM EDITING Zoom Shot * Reaction Shot Montage *
CAMERA EFFECTS Pan Tilt Tracking Shot (crane shot) * Truck
CAMERA EFFECTS Dolly-In * Dolly-Out Tracking Shot (crane shot)
CAMERA EFFECTS Deep Focus Shallow Focus
SOUND IN FILM The Jazz Singer – 1927 Speech
SOUND IN FILM Noise Music
FILM ARCHETYPES Film reflects archetypes, myths Genres:
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