AugustM-26 Intro to classW-28 Intro to breakout sectionsSeptemberM-2 No Class (LaborDay): Check this out for breakout discussionHere’s some notes and a pretty good vidW-4 Discuss: Chapter1 and (Earliest) Moving Picture TechnologyM-9 Narrative/StoryTelling: Melies and Porter notes Here’s same info in different formW-11 Discuss: How Films Tell Stories: Chapter 1 (cont’d)M-16 No Class: watch DWGriffith and Clear StoryTelling (Will update link soon)Here’s the notes for the videoW-18 Discuss: Specifics of Narrative Clarity: Chapter2 (58-60)Some sweet info about continuity editing to discussM-23 German Expressionism: Chapter 4 (66-75)Here’s a pretty good intro videoW-25 Discuss: German Expressionism’s Influence Check this out for discussion as wellM-30 Soviet Cinema, 1920s: Chapter 5 OctoberW-2 Exam #1M-7 Hollywood Created, Genres Begin: Chapter 3: 61-65W-9 Discuss: Hollywood Genre(s) M-14 No Class: watch these videosW-16 Discuss: Chapter7 and Studios, Stars and SoundHere some vids: #1 #2 #3M-21 Classical Hollywood StyleW-23 Discuss: (Historical) Hollywood StyleM-28 No Class: watch videos on Hawks and WellesW-30 Discuss: The CHC Style Through TodayNovemberM-4 Italian Neo-Realism: Chapter 10 (199-208)W-6 Exam #2M-11 French New Wave, 1959+: Chapter 12 (238-245) W-13 Discuss: FNW’s LegacyM-18 New American Cinema, 1965-1977: Chapter 14W-20 Discuss: New Hollywood StylesM-25 Thanksgiving BreakW-25 Thanksgiving BreakDecemberM-2 Hollywood and the Entertainment Economy: Chapter 16W-4 Discuss: Digital Technologies and EffectsM-9 Experimental and Avant Garde Cinemas: Chapter 13Last Day of ClassesFinal Exam: Monday December 16: 10:45HISTORY OF MOTION PICTURESBREAKOUT9/4/2013 VIEWING PRECONDITIONS IN OUR BRAIN- Image stays on the back of our eyes until the next one appears.- Our brain tries to fill in the gaps.- 24 frames/second, we stop seeing frozen images, and start fluid motion.  EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE- ‘The man who stopped time” - He created image after image, to win a bet that all the hooves of a horse are in the airat one point. - He created an apparatus that had multiple cameras lined up that were trip wired so it would take multiple photos and a ‘series of motion’ effect.  ETIENNE-JULES MAREY- He wanted to use one camera that would take multiple photos, not a lined up apparatus of multiple. - It was in a gun-like form.- It captured fluid motion.  ZOETROPE- Machine that tricks the eye, Used many frames that would spin quickly to create the illusion of movement. US IN 1890’S: - “Astonish me!” attitude during this era. - Circuses, the car, the light bulb, etc. - Different forms of entertainment emerging and growing…- Cyclorama: a building that you move around w/ a wrapped painting around the wall that tells a story. Ex: “The Battle of Gettysburg” OUR VERSION TODAY OF NEW CINEMATIC INVENTIONS- 3D Projection Mapping- Dance Dance Revolution THOMAS EDISON’S KINETOGRAPH (camera) AND THE BLACK MARIA (first studio)- He realizes that he can create fluid motion and make it make $$.- 22 pictures every single second, you start receiving movement.- Not quite movies, but he creates ‘films’ in the Black Maria for other people’s entertainment. - He has people act out vignettes & do everyday actions that he can capture. (EX: a fight, a theater troupe, etc.) KINETOSCOPE - Viewing machine, Was in a black box w/ a viewing hole/panel that you could peek inside to watch the ‘films’ FRANCE IN THE 1890’S - “Entertain us!” LUMIERE BROTHERS- Created a camera that both records and projects film: The Cinematographe.- Realized people act a certain way once in front of a camera.- Called ‘actualities’: snippets of things in everyday life. (People leaving factory…)- Camera is stationary.HISTORY OF MOTION PICTURESLECTURE9/9/2013 NARRATIVE- Film stayed the same (Edison, Lumiere, etc.) until narrative- Narrative: the telling of a story (events)- With narrative, a telling takes over “showing” GEORGES MELIES- “pure cinema” transformation, fantasy- “trick” films that used numerous types of edits to conceal those tricks.- Cuts film once, the bus in a film becomes a hearse. Revealed ‘editing’- Storytelling: manipulation of time & space.- Staged scene linked by edits. - ^ Altering angles and camera positions to direct your attention.  LUMIERES VS MELIES- Lumieres documented the world/Melies transformed the world he recorded.- Lumieres showed function that the camera could record a real event/Melies shows that film can create an event that never happened.- Lumieres set pattern for realism/Melies opens the door to the fictional.  EDWIN S PORTER- Early move toward continuity. - Appears logical, linear.- Gives shot+shot+shot (Basic unit of film is shot not scene (as in Melies)- First to use different camera angles. (Life of An American Fireman)-HISTORY OF MOTION PICTURESBREAKOUT9/11/13 ALICE GUY BLACHE- First female director. ELEMENTS OF STORYTELLING- Trick edits (special effects)- Different points of view through camera angles.- Characters acting deliberately- Linear narrative.- scene + scene + scene (Melies)- shot + shot + shot (Porter)- Manipulation of time & space- Sound- Color to add imagery & mood- Pace speed up & slowed down by edits.- Lighting, props (mise en