FILM 1502 1st Edition Lecture 8Outline of Last Lecture I. What are the different ways that we can understand the filmic image?II. In what ways can we understand films as textual objects?III. Discussion: Scorsese’s Raging Bull utilizes a wide range of cinematographic techniques toexplicitly tell the story of La Motta’s life, how does it do so latently?Outline of Current Lecture I. Quiz 1: Mise-en-scène and CinematographyII. What were the origins of film editing and how did it change over time?III. What are the key elements, styles, and rules of film editing?IV. How does editing impact our understanding of cinematic space and time?Current LectureThe Units of Film Language: The shot, the sequence, the scene 9/23Editing - Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958) o long shots-lead into image, sense continuous spaceo editor brought in to recut-all night on one take - Prehistoryo narrative and imageo magic lantern-early projection, images creating meaningo Muybridge and chronophotography-zoopraxiscope (running horse)- Silent Era o short duration/ few cuts--non-narrative (non-fictional, showing what’s happening, performance)o *Edwin S. Porter* (1906) more complex editing and narrative, tell story w/ editingo D.W. Griffith (birth of a nation) crosscutting/ parallel editing--cutting back at forth, two stories happening at the same time continuity editing--designed to make space and time seem continuous-shot w/ takes - Soviet montage: editing concept that emerged in the late 1910s following the Russian Revolutiono *Sergei Eisenstein* and Vsevolod Pudovkin meaning through Juxtaposition-comparison, combo of images relationship b/w images creates meaning 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. A+B not equal to AB, A+B=C is something elseo Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960) disjointed, seeing frames of action, compression of time o Hollywood=seamless, new wave=disjunct-jump cuts, defy continuity- Digital Age o non-linear editing-jump around clips to edit Shot- basic editing elements, series of frames that runs for an uninterrupted amount of time Elements of editing - shot: make up scene - scene: multiple shots- sequence: multiple scenes - cut: where ends, on-camera and post production - transitions: fade out, in and cross disolve QUIZ
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