HUM-1020 NOTES 10/1/19

Objectives of chapter 7:

- Short answer:
o Do not use too many “to be” verbs
o Have a strong sense of style.
- Cinema:
o Persistence of vision (POV)
- How the medium works:
- The material ghost:
o A medium of film is often mistaken for a non-physical object when in reality it is.
Genre or classification:
o Horror
o Narrator:
 Fictional
 Professional actors
 Examples
 Titanic
 Twister
o Documentary:
 Record actual reality and comment on it.
 Informing
 Educational
 No professional actors
o Absolute (avant-garde)
 No narrative techniques
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- Purpose and function:
o Narrative films:
 Entertainment
o Documentary films:
 Informational
 Educational
o Absolute films:
Production:
- Mise-en scene (composition)
o Encompasses the entirety of the visual field of the production.
- Long-shot (LS):
o Large field of view
- Medium-shot (MS):
o A group of people
- Close-up (CU):
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o Eye-line match
- Function of shots:
- Where: background/foreground:
- Lighting
- Props
- Angles
o Bird’s eye
 Subject is superior
o Worm’s eye
 Subject is inferior
o God’s eye
 Everyone is inferior
- Camera movement
o Point of view
o Pans
 Horizontal movement
o Tilt
 Vertical movement
- Dolly tracking:
- Grammar of movies
o Continuity
 Jump-cut
 Jumping from one scene to another with the same context.
 Ellipses cut
 Jumping way ahead of time.
o Montage:
 An assemblage of images in which the audience confers meaning.
 Ex: Three actors in a park, one is a well-kept older man, on the other side
of the park is a mother with an infant child.