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

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!

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

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

The Lonedale Operator -1911 -Example of storytelling without dialogue

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”

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Camera Angles Other camera angles: http://www.mediaknowall.com/camangles.html

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)