Good evening!Welcome to our Unit 8 Audio Seminar

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Readings. . .

• Chapter 9, “Cinema”, in The Art of Being Human.

Questions for this evening. . .

1. Choose three film techniques that are used consistently in filmmaking.

2. Define these techniques in your own words and explain what their intended effect is.

BUT FIRST. . .

Your Favorites and Why. . .

What is your FAVORITE movie of all time and WHY?

THINK FAST!!Name three film

techniques that are used consistently in filmmaking.

CONVENTIONS OF FILMConventions o establishing shot-image that identifies where

an action shot is to take place (for example, the front of a house)

o close-upo soundo background musico point of view-usually a close-up of one

character, followed by whatever is supposed to be seen by him/her.

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CONVENTIONS OF FILM

Conventionso elongated moment-The slowing down of time.

What may take a couple of seconds in real time is broken down into a number of separate shots.

o lingering take-When the camera stays longer than expected on an object, a scene, a face.

odissolve-when one scene fades into the next.

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CONVENTIONS OF FILMConventionso freeze frames when the action stops briefly and an image

remains on a screen as if it were a photograph.o tracking shot when the camera, on wheels, moves in, out,

up, down, or around, as in the famous train depot sequence in Gone with the Wind, when the camera moves out closely revealing the number of dead.

o cut (1) when the director stops the shooting on a scene; (2) when one scene is quickly replaced by another.

o flip when one screen image is turned quickly around, being replaced by another. It is different from the cut because the image is literally flipped around.

o Special effects

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EARLY MILESTONESInventiono Thomas

Edison & projector technology

o “peep show”

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MAJOR FILM GENRESSlapstick Comedyo Chaplin & the Little Tramp – Gold

Rush, Modern Times Farceo Marx Brothers – A Night at the

Opera

MAJOR FILM GENRES

Film Noiro Huston - The Maltese

Falcono Wilder - Double

Indemnityo Truffaut - Shoot the

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MAJOR FILM GENRESRomantic Comedyo When Harry Met Sally (1989)o As Good as It Gets (1997)o others you can think of?

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MAJOR FILM GENRES

Screen Musicalo Singin’ in the

Raino Dirty Dancingo Chicago

MAJOR FILM GENRES

The Westerno High Noono Butch Cassidy and the

Sundance Kido Dances with Wolveso Open Range*o3:10 to Yuma*

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MAJOR FILM GENRESDocumentaries & Docudramas Documentaries – a nonfiction film that usually

has a narrator but not a structured storyline.

Docudrama – a nonfiction film that has not only a narrator but characters, either real people or actors, and a story line.

Docudrama Examples: Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, and An Inconvenient Truth

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MAJOR FILM GENRESAnimated Film

o Snow White and the Seven Dwarfso Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

o Ratatouille

NOTES ON CRITICAL VIEWING

Some criteria to determine the merit of a film:o Use of a style unique to cinemao Characters with complex inner liveso Relevance to the timeso Integrityo Avoidance of stereotypeso Gravity of themeo No violations of probability

Only one more seminar left!

GREAT DISCUSSION!

Remember!1. Discussion Board: two (2) threads

awaiting your responses as well as those of your classmates.

2. Wrap up your final project.