1. aptly named for “pictures that moved”...
THE MOVIES...
aptly named for “pictures that moved”...

2. At the turn of the 19th Century...
Photographers began experimenting with moving pictures:
Thomas A. Edison invented a way to watch a film one person at a time:
Kinetoscope
Virtual Recreation of the Kinetoscope
Lumiere Brothers’ invention: watching a film on a wall!
Trains!

3. “Reelies!”
Short films, 5-8 minutes
“One Reelers”

4. Reelies… First goal: Reproduction of human movement
Second goal: Actual storytelling

5. The Lonedale Operator -1911 -Example of storytelling without dialogue

6. Film becomes like books...
Read the following passage:
Claude only grinned.
“Well, as long as you have such a good disposition, “the stylish lady said, “I don’t think it makes a difference what size you are. You just can’t beat a good disposition.”
Next to her was a fat girl of eighteen or nineteen, scowling into a thick blue book which Mrs. Turpin saw was entitled Human Development.
-from Flannery O’Connor’s “Revelation”

7. Camera Cutting...
Were this passage to be converted to film, think about what different images you would see...
...SHOW CLAUDE; SWING TO LADY; SWING TO GIRL WITH BOOK...

8. Cutting…
Swinging the camera from scene to scene would make the audience dizzy. Thus the shots are spliced (or cut) together to create
one cohesive film.
Fades
Wipes
Dissolves

9. Succession of Time in Film:
Montage: rapid successive images in a motion picture to illustrate an association of ideas
Examples: Team America
Dirty Dancing

10. Filmmakers, like all good storytellers, manipulate you.
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Manipulations. Everyone is manipulated. Sometimes they don’t know they’re being manipulated.

11. What are obvious ways to manipulate the audience?
Visual composition of shot
Sound
Color
Moving from shot to shot

12. So... In what ways are editing in film and editing in writing similar?
When done well both are invisible.

13. The Art of Filmmaking: Editing Vocabulary:
Footage: a length of film shot by the camera
Cut: splicing two sections of film together

14. Components of filming…
Shot: One camera filming
Sequence: A collection of different shots
Transition: moving from one sequence to another

15. Editing vocabulary cont.
Cross-cutting (parallel action)
Unapparent in first films
Similar to paragraphing in writing
Examples: Silence of the Lambs

16. Camera Angles
Low angle: Camera angle is shot below character. Subject seems more important:
A Life Less Ordinary

17. Camera Angles Other camera angles:

18. Review: Describe: What first films were like…
First films with narrations...
Components of filming…
Types of shots and camera angles…
Editing in film versus editing in writing …
(Similarities and differences)