1. Welcome to Unit 8 Cinema HU300 Art and Humanities: Twentieth Century and Beyond!

2. Why film? What do you think the purpose of film is? Should it communicate a moral lesson? Should it merely entertain?

3. Who Invented Film? The Lumière Brothers, c.1896

4. Soviet Montage Theory The Kuleshov Experiment The Battleship Potempkin (1905): Odessa steps scene Sergei Eisenstein

5. Which film genres do you enjoy?

6. Genres Which genres appeal most to you? Are there some film genres that you have not seen? Why do some genres appeal while others do not?

7. What is genre? The Word “Genre” kind or type Film genre: Various types of films that audiences and filmmakers recognize by their familiar narrative conventions. Common genres are musical, gangster, and science fiction film. Sub-Genre

8. What is genre? Problems of definition Who needs Genres? Filmmakers, producers, audiences, and critics. Commercial and industrial nature

9. Mise-en-Scène : “putting into the scene” Aspects of Mise-en-Scène 1. Setting 2. Costume and Makeup 3. Lighting 4. Staging: Movement and performance

10. Set vs. Location - Realistic Setting vs. Unrealistic Setting Realistic Setting Example The Terminal (2004)

11. Unrealistic Setting Example Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

12. 2. Costume and Makeup Costume in Amadeus (1984)

13. 2. Costume and Makeup Makeup in The Hours (2002) Yes! This is Nicole Kidman

14. 3. Lighting Low-key lighting: Lighting that is dark and shadowy

15. 3. Lighting High-key lighting: Lighting that is generally bright and even

16. Production Designer: The person responsible for the appearance of much of what is photographed in a film, including architecture, locations, sets, costumes, makeup and hairstyle, etc.

17. Special Effects What impact do special effects have on a film? Do you need a strong plot and characters, or can special effects be sufficient?

18. Auteur Theory: Director's personal creative vision Origin: Cahiers du Cinéma the French New Wave Auteurs: Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Alfred Hitchcock, Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubric, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Pedro Almodóvar, etc.

19. Film editing: How shots are put together to make up a film.

20. Transitions: 1) Fade-Out: gradually darken the end of a shot to black. 2) Fade-In: lighten a shot from a black. 3) Dissolve: briefly superimposes the end of shotA with the beginning of shotB 4) Wipe: shotB replaces shot A by means of a boundary line moving across the screen. 5) Cut: an instantaneous change from one shot to the next

21. Sound in the Film 1. The human voice 2. Sound effects synchronous sound asynchronous sound 3. Music