TCF 112 1st Edition Exam 1 Study Guide Lectures 1 4 People Charlie Chaplin Co founded the United Artists Comedy Method o Character based comedy emotion based o Social awareness via comedy issues like class and poverty o Static camera Little Tramp Sergei Eisenstein Advanced montage as the key component of modernist politically engaging filmmaking in the Soviet Union Master of Soviet montage Transformed Marxist theory into editing technique Buster Keaton Comedy Method o Character based comedy not emotional o Mobile camera o Film for narrative o Character changed by his surroundings The Great Stone Face Thomas Ince Part of the Triangle Company Set up the prototype for HW studio system in his studio called Inceville Fritz Lang Renowned for his blocking of crowd scenes Films Metropolis and Fury Thomas Edison Dealt in science industry business and spectacle Focused on innovation and hardware Patented the first motion picture camera Mack Sennet Created black and white silent comedies in the 1920 s August Louis Lumi re Invented cinematograph W K L Dickson Created the kinetoscope and the kinetograph Jackie Chan Stunt star Movies used the legacy of silent films and their techniques like camera tricks and physical tricks Lev Kuleshov Soviet filmmaker Created Kuleshov effect Experimented with film and editing techniques Peter Lorre Fritz Lang cast him as the psychopathic child killer in M Roles in horror films films with dark subject matter Unique accent Emil Jannings Very first actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor Starred in The Last Laugh Dziga Vertov Advanced montage as the key component of modernist politically engaging filmmaking in the Soviet Union Innovated the collection of documentary sounds Created documentary films with strong ideological messages Created Kino Pravda Films Man with a Movie Camera Siegfried Kracauer Emphasized the difference between visible sound and non visible sound Experimented with sound techniques and use V I Pudovkin The foundation of film art is editing F W Murnau Integrated the documentary world into the narrative film Films The Last Laugh and Nosferatu D W Griffith Synthesizer of cinematic form Key Contributions 1 Makes the rescue and chase sequences a cinematic staple 2 Perfected Narrative Economy 3 Dynamic Moving Camera 4 Filmed and edited shots in the classical Hollywood style 5 Improved Pictorial Quality 6 Improved Screen Acting Karl Freund Worked with D W Griffith to create Metropolis Edwin S Porter Multiple shots and different angles Manipulation of cinematic time Parallel editing Continuity editing Varied shot perspective New basic film unit Films Life of an American Firefighter and The Great Train Robbery George M li s Stop motion photography Multiple exposures Cinematic transitions SFX 21st century viral magic Cinema created its own reality One shot one scene series of scenes movie Thomas Dixon Starred in The Birth of a Nation Roscoe Faty Arbuckle Helped Buster Keaton to start his career Worked at Mack Sennett s Keystone film studio Mary Pickford Formed United Artists company with Douglas Fairbanks D W Griffith and Charles Chaplin Starred in Pollyanna America s Sweetheart Douglas Fairbanks Starred in swashbuckling adventure films Karl Marx Marxism Ideological argument against naturalization of conventions and the mystification of how things work Had a profound influence on shaping film theory before the 1970 s Robert Weine Created The Cabinet of Dr Caligar Terms Zoetrope Allowed a person to view a series of images through slits in a circular wheel a view that creates the illusion of a moving image Kuleshov Workshop Experimented with editing on pieces of film his students and Kuleshov already had Intolerance 1916 became the textbook for him and his students Put theory of montage at the center of Soviet filmmaking Cinematographe adv dis Advantages o Portable o Versatile o Standardized film speed o Changed aesthetics o Actualities o Dynamic perspective o Camera and subject movement o In depth composition Disadvantages o Film used was highly flammable o Sound recording still unable outdoors and mobile Expressionism Artists expression of turbulent inner feelings captures subjective emotions and depicts them dramatically Dominate artistic mode in the 20 s Provides means for representing subjective reality internal feelings in a medium that s been good at depicting external reality Pan tilt dolly crane A pan moves the frame from side to side without chaning the placement of the camera A tilt moves the frame up or down on a horizontal axis as the camera rotates on its mount A dolly is where the camera is moved on a wheeled dolly that follows a determined course A crane shot depicts the action or subject from high above Actualities Mini documentaries Mise en scene Includes everything in the frame Literally translated as putting into the scene May Include o Lighting o Set construction o Art design o Costuming o Blocking of actors Dissolve Briefly superimposes one shot over the next which takes its place Dialectical montage Two shots linked dialectically become synthesized into something greater a visual concept Cut The break in the image that marks the physical connection between two shots from two different pieces of film Chiaroscuro Lighting A pictorial arrangement of light and dark that can create the uneasy atmospheres found in German expressionist films Gag rule The gag had to play out and come to a conclusion in 90 seconds or less Triangle Company Combination of Ince Sennett and Griffith in the silent film industry Match cut The direction of an action is edited to a shot depicting the continuation of that action UFA Principal film studio in Germany Major force in cinema during German Golden Age Parafumet Company name after UFA became part of Paramount and MGM Cross cutting Alternating between two or more strands of simultaneous action Proscenium staging Area of a theatre surrounding the stage opening Unchained camera Innovation by filmmaker F W Murnau Allowed for filmmakers to get shots from cameras in motion Enabled them to use pan tilt dolly and crane shots Moscow Film School First national film school Founded in 1919 with Russian filmmakers Sergei Eisenstein Vsevolod Pudovkin and Lev Kuleshov Relational editing Editing of shots for the purposes of comparison or for the contrast of content Sound bridge Same sound used across an edit sound fx dialogue is a common element across shots Kinetograph adv dis For image capturing Disadvantages o