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| Christian Categories of Movies |
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| films that hinder a walk with Christ, films that do neither (Dumb and Dumber) films we can learn from (Black Hawk, Passion of Christ, etc.) |
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| watch every movie without consideration of effect, thinking TV and Movies do not have a message, hrs. per week of tv/movies vs. hrs. of spiritual growth |
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| generalize all movies/tv as "worldly", consider depiction of sin is always wrong without considering purpose of the sin, consider are you "out of touch" with peers because of pullin back from culture so much? |
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| Protagonist vs. Antagonist |
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| pro.-> hero and antagonist = villain; they are the worldviews we should consider |
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| heroes speech about what he learned, usually at the end (Jerry McGuire - had me at hello) |
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Who wins? typically winner glorified
Who loses? weaker view point is punished
Who dies?
Why? |
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| Camera is placed up high making the subject appear small |
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| Camera placed low which makes subjects appear very large |
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| (canted, or dutch)results in assymmetrical view, suggests that everything is amiss |
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| equal level with the actor, usually featuring from the waist up |
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| Directly overtop the subject, so abstract it doesn't feel real because no one ever looks directly down |
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| directly under the subject (i.e. the water falling on the alien in Signs) |
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| Close-Up vs. Extreme Close-Up |
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| plain close up-> camera is close to the object (i.e. featuring a face) extreme is focusing on a certain aspect of the face (i.e. scar on face) |
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| type of focus where foreground, middle ground, and background are all in focus |
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| generally a long shot that identifies the location (being at Grove City and then showing a car ride then closing with the SRU entrance sign) |
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| a zip or reaction to a certain sound or light change |
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pan -> movement on a horizontal axis
til -> movement up and down (vertical axis) |
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| a moving shot where the camera is placed on a track and moved from side-side or up and down |
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| left to right creates a sense of well-being, right to left creates uneasiness, wariness (The Graduate entrance) front to back creates disassociation (bye bye) and back to front is intimate (creepy or wonderful??) |
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| Lighting (Fill, Key, Back) |
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Fill -> from left to fill in shadows
Key -> to provide main light on character (spotlight)
Back -> to add depth to object |
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| low contrast between key and fill lights, provides warm and bright light usually used in comedies, etc. |
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| high contrast between key and fill lights, ideal for horror, suspense, mystery, etc. |
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| combining two different object (Ben jumps onto "raft" a.k.a. Mrs. Robinson the Graduate) |
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term can also mean "editing"
can also be a series of shots in rapid succession (i.e. the Odessa steps massacre in Battleship Potempkin) |
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means "placing on the stage"
it is everything that the eyes see (costumes, lighting, postures, etc) |
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Greek word for "narrative"
means the "world of the film" including on/off screen (R.O.U.S. really do exist, and Star Wars does too)
also includes Diegetic sound (makes sense in the context of movie) |
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| something outside the world of the story (when the actor turns to the camera and 'talks to the viewer') |
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| was a wilderness photographer who took the pictures of horse and 4 legs up |
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| George Eastman and William Walker |
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| created new recording material they called film |
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| developed Kinetograph camera with 35mm film, shot many early films at his "Black Maria", 1894 opened a Kinetoscope parlor in New York |
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| developed cinematography immensely, **Responsible for 1st projected motion picture for general audience, December 28th, 1895) |
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| magician who often made movies featuring his tricks, credited with starting to make darker genres, and made "A Trip to the Moon 1902" |
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| 1902, one of the first animated films, was completely hand colored, and began the idea of "mise en scene" |
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| made "The Great Train Robbery" in 1903, started the western genre, revealed ability to bring audience in (the gunshot at the end) |
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| started Biograph and Keystone and was very much into physical comedy, made "Tillie's Romance" with speeded up playback |
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| only comedian who could challenge Chaplin in making serious aspects also funny, also tinkered with camera |
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| started with Keystone in 1913, 1st film is "Making a Living", teamed with Pickford, Fairbanks, and Griffith to open up United Artists, 1st actor on Time cover |
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| tough savvy business woman who founded United Artists and appeared in a TON of films, struggled with sound movies |
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| was an avid actor who starred in "athletic roles", married Mary Pickford |
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Realistic -> not manipulated, meant to be a mirror of actual world, movie is just capturing the situation and not so much the content
Formalist-> content is not as important as the presentation of the movie, deliberately manipulated film |
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| definition: use of color is of utmost importance and will be toyed with to change film |
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| set designer, but was best known as a theorist, more known for analyzing films then creating (professor at Moscow U) |
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| study group done outside school which analyzed how film signifies something and communicates to viewers |
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| the actor with no emotion and then showing happy or sad things that people said actor 'reacted' to today, |
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| built on ideas of Kuleshov's workshop to create Montage where emotional effect of each slide is smaller separated then when together |
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| assembly of shots through which conveys an abstract message that is not directly shown |
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| Einstein's Dialectical Montage |
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| looking at human history in which a force collides with a counter-force and creates something better but totally different than the other parts |
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| Very first all talking film, but camera stood still and people huddled around the mic |
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| was first full length feature film to use synchronized sound to tell a story |
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