sp 472 american film history ii, week 1

8/14/2019 SP 472 American Film History II, Week 1

1/20

What Makes a Film?

Eadweard Muybridges The Horse in Motion


2/20

What Makes a Film?

Workers coming out ofthe Factory by the Lumire Brothers
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3/20

What Makes a Film?

George MeilesA Trip to the Moon


4/20

What Makes a Film?

Robert Zemeckis Polar Express & Beowulf


5/20

What Makes a Film?

Avatar Use of CGI (70%) and advanced

stereoscopic techniques Performance Capture stage 6

times larger than anything used

before Motion capture allows filmmaker

to move the camera with the click

of a mouse making 3D much

easier but also more like creating

a video game, not a movie Cameron developed virtual

monitor so he can see the actors

and the digital backgrounds at the

same time3D explained
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6/20

What Makes a Film?

Also developed a filming rig that

consists of a number of

stereoscopic cameras that each

use a pair of lenses built to mimic

human eyes positioned close

together and able to move a little

in order to focus on objects that

are nearby or far away Allows the cinematographer to

capture two images

simultaneously, which align

perfectly with and provide the

illusion of depth

5 Steps to Avatar
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7/20

Telling a Story

Realism, Classicism, Formalism

Realism inA Perfect Storm


8/20

Telling a Story

Formalism in Gold Diggers of

1933 by Busby Berkeley


9/20

Telling a Story

Formalism in

Rhythmus 21

by Hans Richter


10/20

Telling a Story

Classicism - Mr. Smith Goes To Washington


11/20

Telling a Story

or Gladiator


12/20

Telling a Story

Realism Classicism Formalism

Avant-GardeDocumentary Fiction

Salesman

Battle of Algiers

Mr. Smith Goes To Washington,Gladiator

The Seventh Seal

Rhythmus 21


13/20

Telling a Story

Salesman


14/20

Telling a Story

The Battle of Algiers


15/20

Telling a Story

I am Cuba


16/20

Telling a Story

Man Rays Le Retour la Raison

Hans Richters Rhythmus 21

Rhythmus 21

Le Retour la Raison

Banksy'sThe Punking of Paris Hilton
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17/20

Telling a Story

The Seventh Seal


18/20

Telling a Story

One way of understanding better what a film is trying to

say is to know how it is saying it.

Andr Bazin

Form and Content

Pure Form

Abstraction, Style

& Formal Beauty

Content

Reality, Subject Matter,

Simplicity


19/20

Telling a Story

The way a story is told is part of that story. You can tell the

same story badly or well; you can also tell it well enough ormagnificently. It depends on who is telling the story.

Herman G. Weinberg

Weinberg's 1931Autumn Fire

Form and Content
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20/20

Telling a Story

Visions of Light, 1992

Whos Who in the field

discuss the art and craft of

cinematography

sp 472 american film history ii, week 1

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