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What is Rosebud and
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| Rosebud is Kanes sled and it refers to his childhood. possibly the only thing that made him happy in life. |
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what is the significance about the triangles throughout the movie?
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| The triangles represents many things including spirit, divinity, fire, life. prosperity, and harmony. This could convey that Kane was not prosperous in his life. |
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everything that you see in the scene.
VISUAL!
props, costumes, lighting, make up |
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What was the beginning of the following movies
Dogs Life, Sherlock Holmes, "M", Stage Coach, and Citizen Kane |
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DL: opens to him sleeping
SH: In theatre reading a book
M: Kids in a circle playing a game
SC: cowboys/indians riding horses
CK: No trespassing sign |
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| involves the camera head moving left or right, scanning the scene horizontally |
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| involves the camera head moving upward or downward, thereby scanning the scene vertically. |
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| involves the camera moving forwards, backwards, or laterally, or moving toward, away, or with the subject |
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single continuous run of the camera/
# of shots in that scene, takes place in one place/
a fairly large section of a film featuring a whole action (indians in stagecoach)
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more editing v. less editing
shots shorter v. shots longer |
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a camera angle in which the camera looks down on the subject
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a camera angle in which the camera looks up at the subject |
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How did lang use sound?
more off or on scene sound?
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| Used it to portray who the murderer was and he used more off scene sound. |
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| what were the two parallels in "M"? |
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| police vs. the underworld |
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| Was stagecoach or Kane a genre film? which isnt? |
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has a beginning, middle, and end
conservative
basic principle
restoration of social order |
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| the two-fold job of first choosing the best camera shots taken and then joining these shots together to build a scene, sequence, and finally a movie. |
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| a type of editing in which the end of one shot is simply spliced to the beginning of the next shot that immediately replaces it on the screen. |
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| what movie was the single most successful instance of collaboration? |
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Citizen Kane
it was a collaborative process. |
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| conventional intercutting |
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| what was the connection between Hearst and Welles. |
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both out to kill the others reputation
Welles was young and Hearst was old but both in the film business. |
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| fading the last shot and make the next shot come into focus |
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| when did Melies make movies |
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| the early movies. because the flickered |
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| pioneers in documentary film making |
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what do these stand for?
LS MLS
ECU MCU
CU ELS
MS |
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Long shot
extreme close up
close up
medium shot
medium long shot
medium close up
extreme long shot |
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| What was Fritz Lang popular for? |
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importance of the window in
M
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Citizen Kane |
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the two personalities of the murderer
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setting the whole movie |
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| from one scene to another by using sound |
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| who is the empty triangle in Citizen Kane? |
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| what do the triangles on the gate in the beginning mean? |
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| Kanes life start off regular then get stretched and then become hard iron. |
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| what does the black smoke in the end of Citizen Kane convey? |
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| they have no answer or decision to really what went on in Kanes live. |
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