The making and showing of motion pictures became a source of profit almost as soon as the process was invented. Upon seeing how successful their new invention, and its product, was in their native France, the Lumières quickly set about touring the Continent to exhibit the first films privately to royalty and publicly to the masses. In each country, they would normally add new, local scenes to their catalogue and, quickly enough, found local entrepreneurs in the various countries of Europe to buy their equipment and photograph, export, import and screen additional product commercially. The Oberammergau Passion Play of 1898 was the first commercial motion picture ever produced. Other pictures soon followed, and motion pictures became a separate industry that overshadowed the vaudeville world. Dedicated theaters and companies formed specifically to produce and distribute films, while motion picture actors became major celebrities and commanded huge fees for their performances. By 1917 Charlie Chaplin had a contract that called for an annual salary of one million dollars.
From 1931 to 1956, film was also the only image storage and playback system for television programming until the introduction of videotape recorders.
In the United States today, much of the film industry is centered around Hollywood. Other regional centers exist in many parts of the world, such as Mumbai-centered Bollywood, the Indian film industry's Hindi cinema which produces the largest number of films in the world. Whether the ten thousand-plus feature length films a year produced by the Valley pornographic film industry should qualify for this title is the source of some debate.Though the expense involved in making movies has led cinema production to concentrate under the auspices of movie studios, recent advances in affordable film making equipment have allowed independent film productions to flourish.
Profit is a key force in the industry, due to the costly and risky nature of filmmaking; many films have large cost overruns, a notorious example being Kevin Costner's Waterworld. Yet many filmmakers strive to create works of lasting social significance. The Academy Awards (also known as "the Oscars") are the most prominent film awards in the United States, providing recognition each year to films, ostensibly based on their artistic merits.
There is also a large industry for educational and instructional films made in lieu of or in addition to lectures and texts.
Scarlett Swinden AS Media
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Thursday, 29 September 2011
Diary of a cool girl
-Eyeline match: awkwardness of handing over the money
-Embrassed face of the boy, while the dad rumaged through the bag
-Action match from the wheelchair to the bed
-Eyeline match drawing attention to the girls awkwardness of the situation
-Noramally she is confident but feels awkward because of the boys disability (she becomes scared to touch him)
-Shot-reverse shot establishes the girl locking the door & the boy being vunerable (being seperated from his man)
-Long awkward silences (no soundtrack)
-Eyeline match - the fathers eyes looking up - then we see the apartment
-Discontinous which shows his state of mind feeling anxious (he fidgets around)
-Slow music, privileges the master shot which shows she is incontrol & more confident than him
-Unfinished sentences
-Awkward silences
-Asynchnous sound, he turns off does not reflect his mood, hits horn - anxiety and protective over his disabled son
-Sound bridge - cross cuts from anxious father scene to the bedroom
-Soundtrack - sad soundtrack, enthasises pity
-Embrassed face of the boy, while the dad rumaged through the bag
-Action match from the wheelchair to the bed
-Eyeline match drawing attention to the girls awkwardness of the situation
-Noramally she is confident but feels awkward because of the boys disability (she becomes scared to touch him)
-Shot-reverse shot establishes the girl locking the door & the boy being vunerable (being seperated from his man)
-Long awkward silences (no soundtrack)
-Eyeline match - the fathers eyes looking up - then we see the apartment
-Discontinous which shows his state of mind feeling anxious (he fidgets around)
-Slow music, privileges the master shot which shows she is incontrol & more confident than him
-Unfinished sentences
-Awkward silences
-Asynchnous sound, he turns off does not reflect his mood, hits horn - anxiety and protective over his disabled son
-Sound bridge - cross cuts from anxious father scene to the bedroom
-Soundtrack - sad soundtrack, enthasises pity
Sound
-Diegetic: sound from within the story
-Non-diegetic: sound from outside the story
-Soundtrack: music chosen to go with a scene
-Scoring: writing the original music to go with something in the scene
-Sound effects: sounds added in post production for creating an effect (i.e tires squealing)
-Theme: soundtrack which goes with certain situations or characters
-Ambient sound: natural sound occuring int he scene (i.e. cup rattling in the cafe)
-Dialogue: actors speech (intonation/accent)
-Sound-bridge: the soundtrack starts in one scene and continues in another scene, (bridges across helps continuity)
-Non-diegetic: sound from outside the story
-Soundtrack: music chosen to go with a scene
-Scoring: writing the original music to go with something in the scene
-Sound effects: sounds added in post production for creating an effect (i.e tires squealing)
-Theme: soundtrack which goes with certain situations or characters
-Ambient sound: natural sound occuring int he scene (i.e. cup rattling in the cafe)
-Dialogue: actors speech (intonation/accent)
-Sound-bridge: the soundtrack starts in one scene and continues in another scene, (bridges across helps continuity)
Continuity editing
-Invisible editing: makes action flow smoothly
-180 degree rule
-Eyeline match
-Action match: smooths out the motion, help makes the edit invisible. Divorce of continuity. A motion that starts in shot A and finishes in shot B.
-Graphic match: used to draw attention to a theme, two shots chosden for graphics similarity
-Shot-reverse: used during conversations
-Transitions: when we go from one shot to another
-Pace: how does the edit affect the mood through paces
-Privileged (more screen time) : characters
-Marginalisation (less screen time) : characters
-180 degree rule
-Eyeline match
- Shot A: looking
- Shot B: what looking at
-Action match: smooths out the motion, help makes the edit invisible. Divorce of continuity. A motion that starts in shot A and finishes in shot B.
-Graphic match: used to draw attention to a theme, two shots chosden for graphics similarity
-Shot-reverse: used during conversations
-Transitions: when we go from one shot to another
- Cut (hard cut)
- Dissolve/crossfade
- Fade in or out
- Jump out
-Pace: how does the edit affect the mood through paces
-Privileged (more screen time) : characters
-Marginalisation (less screen time) : characters
Monday, 26 September 2011
Monarch of the Glen analysis
- Starts with a dolly shot
- Medium long shot pans to over the shoulder (shows costume of the young girl)
- Dolly shot in close up emphasizes her uncertainly of not knowing how to drive
- Wide shot to present a new scene/location
- Medium long shot to establish what the headmaster is wearing
- Pans between the characters, the camera goes up and down to represent age through the height difference
- Camera goes down onto her eye level (begin to feel sorry for her, where as before we was unsure about her because of her lies)
- We establish the new location using the long shot (the room is old fashioned representing age)
- Medium close up is then used to show the world at the young girls prospective
- Wide shot is used again to show new location
- Series of camera moves to represent age, tilt onto a stuffed animal, tilts to revel the goodbye note, then a pan to revel a teddy bear with another note
- Slow zoom into the photograph which emphasises her emotion, which show her inexperience of how to deal with a situation
- Camera is outside looking in which is representing Amy being outside looking in, she has been cut off by everyone
- Medium close up, appreciating the lady looking out the window looking for Amy
- Back to the man's eye level as we are experiencing the guilt of him
- Low key lighting used throughout
- Finger wagging punishing the young girl, tantrum throwing her arms down and running out the room represents immature behaviour which occurs in teenagers
- Camera focuses on props (magazines, teddy bear, childlike writing) representation of young age
Camera shots (composition) & camera movement
Camera shots
- Two shot - two characters showing their faces
- Over the shoulder shot - camera aimed over one shoulder. Feels as if your the character (dominated speaker)
- Birds eye/high angle shot - can show the surrounding, also makes them looks small/vulnerable
- Low angle (eye level) - power, intimidation
Camera movement
- Never use the word movement
- Pan - camera is pivoting (will scan over a scene)
- Tilt - pivot up & down
- Tracking shot - following the scene
- Reverse tracking - point backwards and moving backwards while following a subject
- Dolly shot - small movement (smooth)
- Crane shot - when its up on a crane to move the camera up or down
- Zooming in/out - when the camera zooms in or out (pull the audience into the scene to help them feel the emotion of the character)
Thursday, 22 September 2011
Mise en Scene
Mise en Scene includes the following:
-Costume
-Setting/location
-Props
-Lighting
-Body language & blocking
-Makeup
Film clip annaylis
-Costume
-Setting/location
-Props
-Lighting
-Body language & blocking
-Makeup
Film clip annaylis
- Based on a farm in Scotland
- A girl has run away from her home when her headmaster comes to discover her
- Old working men surrounding tools (props)
- Location is set in the countryside
- Casual clothing for teenagers (showing age difference between the characters)
- The older men are wearing heavy clothing (hard working/strong)
- The girls confused & doesnt know how to drive (cleary shes lying which is a representation of her youth)
- The headmaster is dressed in old but smart clothing (showing the film set is old fashioned)
- She hides behin the man (childlike)
- Old setting, representation of her ag through location
- Brandy - old mans drink (prop)
- Low key lighting
- Finger wagging punishing the young girl (representing shes a child)
- Trantrum throwing her arms down and running out the room represents her immature behaviour which occurs in teenagers
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