1. The Questions to Lead Film Studies What components comprise film? What components comprise film? How do specific images, movements, and sounds create meaning? How do specific images, movements, and sounds create meaning? How do the components come together to create meaning? How do the components come together to create meaning? How do editing choices affect meaning? How do editing choices affect meaning? What elements and styles are specific to certain genres and movements of film? What elements and styles are specific to certain genres and movements of film? What styles are specific to certain filmmakers? What styles are specific to certain filmmakers? What messages are filmmakers conveying about our world? What messages are filmmakers conveying about our world?

2. Basic Film Terms

3. Film Terms Storyboard: drawings of each shot that match the shooting script Storyboard: drawings of each shot that match the shooting script

4. Film Terms Stock footage: various shots and scenes kept in a film archive for repeated use; famous news events as well as more anonymous footage can be cut into a film without the expense of shooting new footage Stock footage: various shots and scenes kept in a film archive for repeated use; famous news events as well as more anonymous footage can be cut into a film without the expense of shooting new footage

5. Film Terms Stock footage: various shot and scenes kept in a film archive for repeated use; famous news events as well as more anonymous footage can be cut into a film without the expense of shooting new footage Stock footage: various shot and scenes kept in a film archive for repeated use; famous news events as well as more anonymous footage can be cut into a film without the expense of shooting new footage

6. Film Terms Mise-en-scène: Atmosphere, setting, décor, and texture of a shot. The way a scene has been designed and staged for the camera Mise-en-scène: Atmosphere, setting, décor, and texture of a shot. The way a scene has been designed and staged for the camera

7. Film Terms: Camera Shots Establishing shot: placed at the beginning of a film or sequence, the est. shot sets the time and place of the action. A shot that reveals setting. Establishing shot: placed at the beginning of a film or sequence, the est. shot sets the time and place of the action. A shot that reveals setting.

8. Film Terms: Camera Shots Long shot: a shot from a significant distance from the camera to show landscape, buildings, large interiors. An establishing shot is often a long shot. Long shot: a shot from a significant distance from the camera to show landscape, buildings, large interiors. An establishing shot is often a long shot.

9. Film Terms: Camera Shots Medium shot: a shot from that reveals an actor’s full figure from the waist up. Medium shot: a shot from that reveals an actor’s full figure from the waist up.

10. Film Terms: Camera Shots Close-up: shot that reveals a subject up close. The subject fills the screen. An extreme close-up may focus on a specific detail of a subject. Close-up: shot that reveals a subject up close. The subject fills the screen. An extreme close-up may focus on a specific detail of a subject.

11. Film Terms: Camera Shots One-shot: a camera with one person in it. One-shot: a camera with one person in it.

12. Film Terms Low angle: a camera angle whereby it looks UP at its subject. The camera is positioned beneath the subject. Low angle: a camera angle whereby it looks UP at its subject. The camera is positioned beneath the subject.

13. Film Terms: Camera Angles High angle: a camera angle whereby it looks DOWN at its subject. The camera is positioned above the subject. High angle: a camera angle whereby it looks DOWN at its subject. The camera is positioned above the subject.

14. Film Terms: Camera Angles Flat angle: a camera angle whereby the camera is at an even level and on the same plane as its subject. Flat angle: a camera angle whereby the camera is at an even level and on the same plane as its subject.

15. Film Terms: Camera Angles Wide angle: a focal length that gives a viewer the widest angle of view. The maximum focal LENGTH of a lens. Wide angle: a focal length that gives a viewer the widest angle of view. The maximum focal LENGTH of a lens.

16. Film Terms: Equipment Dolly: a piece of equipment that allows the camera and cinematographer to sit on wheels so as to capture various shots and camera movements Dolly: a piece of equipment that allows the camera and cinematographer to sit on wheels so as to capture various shots and camera movements

17. Film Terms: Equipment Boom: a moveable pole upon which a microphone, light, or camera is fixed so it can be suspended over a scene and outside the frame (boom shots are done with this piece of equipment) Boom: a moveable pole upon which a microphone, light, or camera is fixed so it can be suspended over a scene and outside the frame (boom shots are done with this piece of equipment)

18. Film Terms: Lighting Natural: sunlight alone illuminates a set/scene Natural: sunlight alone illuminates a set/scene

19. Film Terms: Lighting High key: bright, artificial lighting (lamps) illuminates a set/scene High key: bright, artificial lighting (lamps) illuminates a set/scene

20. Film Terms: Lighting Low key: dim lighting accentuates a set/scene, especially to add mood. Low key: dim lighting accentuates a set/scene, especially to add mood.

21. Film Terms: Editing Juxtaposition: positioning of images up against one another to show relationships among them ( such as similarities or contrasts) Juxtaposition: positioning of images up against one another to show relationships among them ( such as similarities or contrasts)

22. Juxtaposition

23. Film Terms: Editing Montage: rapid succession of images to illustrate an association of ideas (passage of time, sequence of event) Montage: rapid succession of images to illustrate an association of ideas (passage of time, sequence of event)

24. A Brief History of Moving Pictures How did it all start? How did it all start? History of the Motion Picture History of the Motion Picture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CDyj MouQyc&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CDyj MouQyc&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CDyj MouQyc&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CDyj MouQyc&feature=related

25. History of Moving Pictures How did it all start? How did it all start? A Brief History of Film (Animated Documentary) A Brief History of Film (Animated Documentary) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKJqe J48CPs&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKJqe J48CPs&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKJqe J48CPs&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKJqe J48CPs&feature=related

26. History of Moving Pictures 1550: Leonardo DaVinci Camera Obscura: Optical device that projects an image on its screen: Box—hole—light—image Projection (like the eye)

27. History of Moving Pictures Celluloid: photographic film 1889: Celluloid invented by Eastman Kodak by Eastman Kodak

28. History of Moving Pictures Zoetrope: (Greek “wheel of life”) cylindrical drum that produces an illusion of action from a rapid succession of still photographs or images

29. History of Moving Pictures 1878: Eadweard Muybridge horse in motion experiment (photograph series) Eadweard Muybridge horse in motion experiment (photograph series)

30. History of Moving Pictures 1890: W.K.L Dickson and Thomas Edison—capture moving image on celluloid with a K I N E T O S C O P E (not a projector but an early motion picture viewing device)

31. History of Moving Pictures 1894: “The Boxing Cats” (Edison, Inc.)

32. History of Moving Pictures 1895: Lumière Brothers create first film projector— C I N E M A T O G R A P H

33. History of Moving Pictures 1900: NARRATIVE FILM The Great Train Robbery (1903)

34. History of Moving Pictures 1927: Warner Bros. Talking Pictures

35. Silent Film The Birth of a Nation (1915)

36. Silent Film Nosferatu (1922)

37. Silent Film Ben Hur (1925)

38. Silent Film Metropolis (1927)

39. Silent Film City Lights (1931)

40. Silent Film Modern Times(1936)

41. The Talkies Motion pictures with synchronized sound Image from the Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894 or 1895), produced by W.K.L. Dickson as a test of the early version of the Edison Kinetophone, combining the Kinetoscope and phonograph.

42. The Talkies All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

43. The Talkies The Jazz Singer (1927)