FILM: THE MOVING IMAGE “There is something magical about films. The person you are looking at is also somewhere else at the same time. That is a condition.

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FILM: THE MOVING IMAGE “There is something magical about films. The person you are looking at is also somewhere else at the same time. That is a condition of the god.” - Joseph Campbell

MOTION PICTURES  The Movies one stop removed from: one stop removed from: photographyphotography comics / cartoonscomics / cartoons

THOMAS EDISON  Thomas Edison

THOMAS EDISON  1891 – Fred Ott’s Sneeze

LUMIERE BROTHERS  1894 – August and Louis Lumiere  Cinematographe

LUMIERE BROTHERS  1895

GEORGE MELIES

DW GRIFFITH  Epics  Helped found

COLOR vs. B/W  The Great Train Robbery  The World, the Flesh and the Devil

GERMAN FILM  Leni Riefenstahl

TECH SPECS  Projection Rate  Vitaphone  Phonofilm

TECH SPECS  Cinerama  CinemaScope  Imax / Omnimax

TECH SPECS  “Pan and Scan”  Letterbox

TECH SPECS 2. Shot 1. Frame

TECH SPECS  Shots can be: Static Static camera, lens does not movecamera, lens does not move Dynamic Dynamic camera, lens manipulated and maneuveredcamera, lens manipulated and maneuvered

FILM EDITING  Wipe  Dissolve

FILM EDITING  Fade-Out / Fade-In *  Defocus Shot  Rack Focus *

FILM EDITING  Cut  Quick Cutting *

FILM EDITING  Zoom Shot *  Reaction Shot  Montage *

CAMERA EFFECTS  Pan  Tilt  Tracking Shot (crane shot) *  Truck

CAMERA EFFECTS  Dolly-In *  Dolly-Out  Tracking Shot (crane shot)

CAMERA EFFECTS  Deep Focus  Shallow Focus

SOUND IN FILM  The Jazz Singer – 1927  Speech

SOUND IN FILM  Noise  Music

FILM ARCHETYPES  Film reflects archetypes, myths  Genres:

NOW…  Let’s look at some examples!