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Auteur
- A filmmaker whose individual
- style and complete control over all elements of
- production give a film its personal and unique stamp.
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Iris
- In optics, a diaphragm
- is a thin opaque structure with an opening (aperture) at its center. The role of the diaphragm is
- to stop the passage of light, except for the light passing through the aperture.
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Persistence of Vision
- Persistence of vision is the phenomenon of the eye by which an
- afterimage is thought to persist for approximately one twenty-fifth of a second
- on the retina.
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Montage
- (A) Constructivist belief that
- factors composing the individual image can be considered as dynamic elements
- flung together in tense juxtaposition (B) Conflicts within the frame
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Flashback
a scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story
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Studio System
- The term studio system
- refers to the practice of large motion picture studios (a)
- producing movies primarily on their own filmmaking lots with
- creative personnel under often long-term contract
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Mise-en-scene
- the arrangement of scenery and stage properties in a play.
- the setting or surroundings of an event or action.
- everything in the scene contributes to overall
- effect, set design
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Genre
- A category of artistic composition, as in music or
- literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
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ELS
- A panoramic view of an exterior location
- photographed from a considerable distance, often as far as a quarter-mile away.
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Importance of Edison in fiml history
The kinescope was the first motion picture camera. It was invented by Thomas Edison and his assistant, William Dickson, and patented in 1891.
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Who is Melies, descibe 3 of his techniques
was a Frenchillusionist and filmmakerfamous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliestdays of cinema. Méliès, a prolific innovator in the use of special effects
multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted colour inhis work.
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Methods used by Griffith to create excitment/ tension
American
1915 The Birth of a Nation
- story of the civil war in the view point of the
- confederacy
- tells the story of two families one from the
- north (Stonemann) and the other from the south ( Camaroon)
KKK
- § Film
- revived the KKK affect
Premiered at exclusive theaters for $75c - $2
first full length future film
Historical epic
Full-length feature film
- Iris, cross-cutting, montage, boom shot,
- tracking shots, blocking, pans, tilts
Tradition, family, evils of miscegenation
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Describe expressionism, its impact on film
- A dark, expression experiences, trans forming
- reality
- Realism is distorted in order to communicate an
- inner vision/emotion/ experience
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Why Hollywood become the dominant center of cinema
- Sense of the dark, dehumanizing side of wealth,
- technology, urbanism
Rise of power of celeberties
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What are the characteristics of decumentry
consisting of official pieces of written, printed, or other matter
(of a movie, a television or radio program, or photography) usingpictures or interviews with people involved in real events to provide afactual record or report
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Describe the contribution of the Lumiere Brothers to flim
1895 developed a cinematographe
can shoot, print and project
weighted 16lbs
actualities- things that just happen
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Describe several techniques of Dr. Caligari
Flashback
The Unusual Suspect
Expressionism directly to the horror genre and to films depicting a darker side of the psyche.
mise-en-scene, primarily in the area of set design.
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What were some of the contributions of Alice Guy and why washer work forgotten
Gaumont- inventor
French, started out as an assistant
1970 revival –Feminist write her memoir
narrative drama
directing= cripts, actors rehearsing, theatre
use sound tinted prints
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