CCA 103 Final Exam

every shot is a masterpiece

capture images no one will forget

triangle

most stable form - create sets/blocking in triangles to make scenes seem stable

vanishing point

apex of triangle - weak spot

Moving right

forward; winning

moving left

backward; losing

Left

male, win, birth, young, heaven

Right

female, lose, death, old, hell

symmetrical balance

left/right are the same; no competition; stability

asymmetrical balance

seen in Michelangelo's art, disney castle

halos

power; focal point

Japan, Kurosawa: DREAMS

Women soldiers getting shot. Fighting between women and men soldiers. A building gets set on fire

CROWS

Scorsese as Van Gogh, The main character finds Van Gogh in a painting and goes on an adventure, produced by 5 Hollywood directors

People's Republic of China

Behind the scenes of the director of the film. Shanghai was cinema capital in 1896, post World War II censorship including cultural revolution

Zhang Yimou

Released dubbing; lots of action

House of Flying Daggers

Tragic Love Triangle Story, Directed by Zhang Yimou; Traditional Bamboo fight for martial arts, fight scene choreography, Technology behind dagger scenes, final Battle scene where they adapted to blizzard

Curse of the Golden Flower

Sponsored by Chinese government, Directed by Zhang Yimou, Cruel Emperor is secretly having his wife poisoned, lavishness and ornate Royal Gold robes (Heavy medal robes) and Ornate Dynasty and palace; real life fight scenes of warriors pretending to get slayed, large set for a movie

most popular 20th century actors

Chow Yun Fat and Gong Li, Jackie Chan

War of the Worlds

1938 was a story on the radio directed by Orson Welles, it was so realistic people thought that aliens were actually invading

Orson Wells Macbeth

stage play done with an all black cast

Orson Wells Julius Caesar

a modern-dress bare-stage production that evoked comparison to contemporary Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany (Hitler)

Citizen Kane

repeatedly voted best film ever

Based off William Randolph Hearst: Largest newspaper publishing tycoon in world, Left wife for mistress: Marion Davies - a talented actress that Wells turned into a blonde bimbo, Hearst destroys Wells: tried to buy all copies of Citizen Kane and destroy themMade sure Wells never made another successful film

Deep Space Sound

Creates the sense of closeness & distance of sound, Put mikes in ceiling to capture sounds at different distances

William Randolph Hearst

A leading newspaperman of his times, he ran The New York Journal and helped create and propagate "yellow (sensationalist) journalism."

San Simeon Castle

Hearst built it south of San Francisco, Xandau in Citizen Kane

Empty life = oversized, empty "stage sets"

Xandau

San Simeon Castle in the film "Citizen Kane"

Rosebud

Citizen Kane, trade name of a sled Kane played on as a kid, Kane's last word

Greg Toland

cinematographer for "Citizen Kane"

Rule of Thirds

A composition rule that divides the screen into thirds horizontally and vertically, like a tic-tac toe grid placed over the picture on a television set. Almost all of the important information included in every shot is located at one of the four intersections of the horizontal and vertical lines

Depth of Field (DOF)

The distance between the closest point to the camera that is in focus and the furthest point from the camera that is also in focus.

deep space

when significant elements of an image are positioned both near to and distant from the camera

deep focus

The process of rendering the figures on all planes (background, middle-ground, and foreground) of a deep-space composition in focus.

reverse makeup

Start days with actors in old makeup, make actors look younger when removing makeup

Matte painting

a painted representation of a landscape, set, or distant location that allows filmmakers to create the illusion of an environment that is not present at the filming location

Film producer

chief of a movie production in all logistics (scheduling, financing, budgeting), hires key personnel for cast, crew, director, and manages production from start to finish

Original Screenplay

An original idea written for the screen not taken from a book, play, or TV show.

Adapted screenplay

screenplay based on another published source, such as a novel, short story, or news article

a property

owning a screenplay

target audience

a particular group at which a film, book, advertising campaign, etc., is aimed.

Hunger Games

targeted towards women

budget

amount of money available to spend on a film; producer's salary is 3-6% of it

tax deductions

producers can write almost anything for the film off: meetings, meals, transportation, movie tickets, flying to see screenwriter

"above the line"

Part of a film's budget reserved for major players in the production such as the director, producer, writer, main actors, etc. So called because these names used to appear above an actual line on old budget formats, separating them from the other filmmakers on the project.

"below the line"

refers to the part of a film or TV budget that includes physical and logistic costs such as crew salaries, equipment rental, location fees, props, wardrobe, film and tape costs, etc.

top four grossing films

avatar, avengers: endgame, avatar: the way of water, titanic

highest grossing entertainment

Broadway's "The Lion King", "The Phantom of the Opera", "Wicked"

Kathryn Bigelow

1st woman oscar winner best director for the Hurt Locker

Gale Ann Hurd

chose family over movie producing, terminator movies

Sherry Lansing

first woman to run a major studio (20th century fox)

Emma Tilling Koskoff

Assistant to Uma Thurman, Ted Deme; worked on Avengers, Les Mis, Batman

Kathleen Kennedy

one of hollywood's most successful producers-- Jurassic Park (worked for Stephen speilburg as assistant)

Barbra Streisand

most awarded artist in history, EGOT, first female to win best director Golden Globe, 31 music albums in top 10, sold out international concerts at age 73, seen as pushover and perfectionist: treated poorly

Wealthiest filmmakers

George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey

Highest paid actors

George Clooney, Dwayne Johnson, Daniel Craig, Fan bingbing

CAA

Creative Artists Agency; Major talent agency

ICM

International Creative Management; major talent agency

WMA

William Morris Agency; major talent agency

Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia

Started "seven bucks production" with Garcia's brother

showcase

actors pay to be seen; where producers find actors

mail room

everyone in a production company starts here

IMAX with laser

A Laser light source provides substantially more brightness than a xenon bulb and allows IMAX to power its largest screens with even sharper and more lifelike images.

Dolby IMAX

IMAX screen with surround sound audio

Evolution of film

Movies can be shot on smartphones, laptops; Steven Soderberg shot a film on an iPhone

Blue screen

Technique used to replace part of a video image matching a certain color with computer graphics.

Green screen

Makes green areas of a clip transparent so you can overlay the footage onto a different background.

Motion Capture

A system used to capture human movement into a computer by attaching sensors to an actor and tracking their location (used in AVATAR)

Performance capture

a technique for generating computer models from data gathered from an actor's performance (used in AVATAR)

The Mandalorian LED Screens

makes it possible to adjust the brightness levels and adjust to different shooting environments at the studio location