intro to film flashcards

Charlie Chaplin

first global star because it crossed language boundaries

Reflexivity

relating back to the self in a critical and or playful way

example of reflexitiy

godard turing the camera onto himself

Three Stages of Film Production

preproduction, production, post production

Preproduction

plans the film before shoot, screenwriters writes the script,

producer secures funding for project

casting, location, crew assembly, budgetung, scheduling

production

shooting phase

consist of actors, directors unit photgraphers unit and sound unit

postproduction

assembly of the movies occurs with both the director and editor

Stroyboard & Film Production

map the film in advance which increases control but decreases spontaneity

visual draft that sketches out the scene

Previsualization is becoming more common

creative geography

single fictional place by combining different shots from places, sets, models, and effects

Auteurist approach to film analysis

treats the director as the main creative force due to style persisting across many films

Historical approach to film analysis

asks how does production conditions shape the film ex:mullholland drive drama

Generic approach

groups films by reoccuring iconography and repeating kind of stories ex:puzzle films like memento, donnie darko

David lynch

treated as an autuer beacause of his recurring audiovisual patteren making his film easy to recognize hard to define

lynchian details

roads at night, red drapes, haunted city scape

ILM Stagecraft

Referential Meaning

spectators ablity to identify specfic items

refers to things that we already know

Explicit meaning

point of the film or message of the film ex: no place like home in the wizard of oz

Implicit meaning

what percievers ascribe meaning based on their experience

Symptomatic meaning

explicit or implicit meaning bearing traces of a particular set of social values

Jordan Peele

director of get out hasa style of social commentary of black people with monkey paw production

Profilmic

what happens in and around production? how are film physically made

Set

where film is filmed

setting

where the fictional setting

Location shooting

shooting at a particular place that as depth when audience recognizes it

studio shooting

shot in studio has more control over your environment

Instrumental Props

prop being used for what it is meant to be used for

Metaphorical Props

have a hidden meaning behind them ex: key in mullholland drive is a motif

Cultural Props

cultural significant props

Macguffin

an object that seems to have meaning but has no meaning ex: blue box mullholland drive

Five major aspects of Lighting

1.) highlight and shadows, quality, direction, source, color

highlights and shawdows

areas of brightness vs areas of darkness

Quality

difference between hard( clearly defined shawdow and soft lighting

Direction

path that light follows frontal, side, under lighting

source

ambient, set, a combo of both

Color

filtere to autheticate mood or create psychological effect

Threepoint lighting

key, fill back

Highkey lighting

refers to the overall lighting design that uses fill light and back light to createrelatively low contrast between brighter and darker areas

Lowkey lighting

overall lighting design that creates sharp contrast between brighter and darker areas using less fill light

Continuity Editing

a way of maintaining continuous and clear narrative action. relies on matching screen direction, position, and temporal relation from shot to shot.

Analytical Editing