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MAC 143 1st Edition Lecture 9The Early Art of Making MoviesI. Analyzing the Film IndustryA. Production: refers to that part of the process where the product of film is actually made, when is the film conceived B. Distribution: practices of delivering the movie to an audience, but also central to distribution is to create the audience demand for the product, so how do u create a want C. Exhibition: refers to how the film is consumed by the product, how will they watch it II. Early Film Exhibition A. Kinetoscope Parlors (1893-1896): storefront u would walk into and find a bunch of different novelty tvs and gadgets, stick forehead into machine and see the movie B. Vaudeville and Motion Pictures (1896-1905): motion pictures move into log built theaters, most popular form of leisure entertainment in these days were log built theaters, at the end of log built line up they include many different actsC. Nickelodeons (1905-1914): tended to be low overhead theaters, located in storefronts, would just rent a storefront put a sheet up against walls and put up folding chairs and charge people a nickel, hence the name nickelodeon, these were targeting working class and immigrant audiences, movies were a medium of the working class, birth of movies were related to working class, no self respected upper class person would feel comfortable going to one because it was thought to be below them 1. AS protestant elites saw movies as dangerous, because they believed movies and movie going endangered the moral fibers of the working class and immigrant people who went to themD. Movie Palaces (1915- ): reinventing site of exhibition for movies, they moved into downtown movie palaces, there now were enormous and elaborate movie theaters in downtown upper class districts, a movie theater could seat up to 3000 people. Goal was to target upper class to say this was an upscale experience, this was not a nickelodeon. Help the viewer be transported to a different world, sold movie viewing as an experience.III. Early Development of Film Techniques and Narrative:A. the films being shown shifted as they move locations, all films were black and white and silent films. There were far more movies made in this period than movies made nowadays since 1930. B. Peep Show Novelties and the “Cinema of Attractions”1. Kinetoscope parlours: sex was sold through movies, 2. Examples: The Kiss, Serpentine Dance, Sandow (1893): what was appealing to viewers was seeing human action and movement being caught on film. Once people saw these a few times they were done and saying now what?? Filmmakersbegin to experiment with what they can do. Begin to develop techniques and strategies to use the camera to tell increasingly complex stories, Primitive Cinema: Tableaux (“Living Pictures”) Films (1894-1903)These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.1. Primitive cinema made of one shot, shot refers to smallest unit in making of film, and comprised of everything from when you turnit on to when you turn it off. Set camera up and let it roll in film, camera is stationary, no camera movementa) Vaudeville houses b) Single long shot, static camera, theater-like stagingc) Example: A Chess Dispute (1903): would be seen at end of vaudeville line up if they went to the theater, one shot with static camera, C. Editing: begin to realize how could we tell a different type of story if we start to combine shots together through editing, taking one shot and putting it together with another one, 1. Trick films – The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895): weren’t even supposed to know there was an edit. 2. Close-ups/Insert shots – The Gay Shoe Clerk (1903)3. Variable locations/scenes – The Other Side of the Hedge (1905): sues editing to go to the other side of the hedgea) You can see them using baby steps with editing, putting shots together was much harder to invent, we see over the first 20 years development offilm technique and narrating. D. Emergence of Complex Narratives (Beginning around 1903)1. Longer running times, variety of scenes & shots2. Ever more complex narratives 3. Narrative: a) story: refers to the sequence of events that happen in a chronological order, b) discourse: refers to how the teller tells the story schematic definition: equilibrium/disruption/return to equilibrium: argue that underneath all narratives no matter which you are talking about, is the same structure, you could reduce nay narrative down to this structure, that basic structure you will see in any story and if it doesn’t exist its not a narrativeE. Principles of Classical Hollywood Cinema Develop (1909-1917): principles that became the rules for American film making, grammar for how to put a film together and different cultural traditions of filmmaking have different rules 1. Establishing shot (master shot) a) Shot/reverse shot sequence b) Eye-line matchingF. Principles of Classical Hollywood Cinema Develop (1909-1917)1. Establishing shot (master shot) the entire shot? It would show the whole space to the audience to get a sense of everything and where the characters are Shot/reverse shot sequence: way in which conversations are edited together.a) Eye-line matching: if the film maker does it right, it seems seamless.IV. 4 Techniques of FilmmakingA. Mise-en-scen (put on the stage): literally means “things put on the stage” (props, set design, location shooting, the actors, costume design)B. Sound (diagetic and nondiagetic): Diagetic=those sound elements that the characters in the movie would hear (dialogue, special effect explosions) Nondiagetic=only the sound the audience hears (a narrator, background music)C. Cinematography (camera distance and movement): how far is the camera from the actor? (long shot which is foot to head, medium shot is waist up, close up is top of shoulders to top of head, extreme close up is like super close up of face) movement: pan (either left or right), tilt (up or down), zoom (zoom in and out), focus pull (shift from foreground to background), crane or birds eye shot, track or dolly (put the cam on a dolly)D. Editing (cut, wipe, dissolve, superimposition): cuts (cut from one shot to another), wipes (one shot slowly replaces the other as is wipes across the screen, superimposition (one shot with be superimposed)E. Film Analysis and the 4 techniques1. Style (the manipulation of the four


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