CINE Final

1.85:1

Framing, Depth of Field, Color, Movement

Deep Focus, Shallow Focus, Racking Focus

quality, direction, source, color

mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing, sound

movements that influence characterization

creates visual character traits and motivates plot action.

qualities of editing two shots together

how long each shot lasts with tempo

understanding of spacial whole and juxtaposition

Manipulation of the experience of time in a story

cut, dissolve, fade, wipe

an abrupt transition from one scene to another

speech, music, noise (sound effects)

Voiceover

chain of events linked by cause and effect and occurring in time and space

the story is the narrative in chronological order, everything that we see and infer. The plot is the is exactly what is shown to us on screen and how/when it's told to us doesn't haven't to be in order of how things happen(flashbacks and forwards).
Story = WHAT; Plot = HOW

External, Internal, Progressive, Regressive

the arrangement of visual elements in the frame.
It includes symmetry and balance; shape; and color

french for "type"; a major category or type of literature

Identify formal features
Ask "What do these features mean?"
Make a statement about the genre itself

the study of a group of representative pictures or symbols

film genre theorist; argues that genres perform cultural problem-solving roles; through a genre film, we rehearse social, political, or philosophical conflicts

Bodily fluids
High Strings/ Silence
Putrefaction
Human Deformation/ Animalization
Insects
Teens/ Woman Target

Stretches conventional limits of the medium, experiments with aesthetics; Rejects conventions of mainstream movie

a film that rejects the conventions of mainstream movies and explores the possibilities of the film medium. Challenging norms of what a film can show and how. Ideologically unacceptable to the artistic and political establishment of the time.

Abstract form - organizing the film around movements through patterns
Associational form - suggest ideas or emotions to the viewer that may not be logical but associate with another thing

term usually associated with art past 1860 in the era moving from conformist to experimental art; art becoming philosophy

German dramatist and poet who developed a style of epic theater (1898-1956); identification and immersion in film, breaking of the fourth wall

Mirroring the self-reflexive traditions of New Wave and Modernist cinemas in the context of Avent-garde film
Exploring the material nature of film as a medium and various phase of the production process and shifting outside the frame

(1925-1932) Historical Political Movement based on Freud's theories of the unconscious state; expressing imaginative dreams and visions free from conscious rational control as well as the rejection of cultural norms.

An auteur is always the director because he makes the final decisions regarding casting, editing, cinematography, etc.
WWII German occupation, American films were banned in France; following the war, they began to appreciate them
Films previously seen as entertainment were considered a form of art
Directors have "signatures" and a body of work to judge

argued that auteur theory was represented in Hollywood and that cinematographers etc. were just as much auteurs as the directors

The 400 Blows; won best director at Festival de Cannes in 1959

Films have a recognizable stamp of the Studio System and Privileges contribution of white male directors, marginalizes women and BIPOC directors

Bunuel wanted to "scandalize" the audience
Countered religion, gender, repressed desires and fears
Mocks the hypocrisy and corruption of the ruling class

Sharon and Janice
16 mm film

Formalist explorations other than narrative content

Filmed in their home in West Hollywood

Lithuanian-American filmmaker; "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema"

Shot in sound studio in Burbank, CA

Arrested on Obscenity charges
Painted directly on celluloid like Brackage
Ticking Time Bomb inside man

Diary Film/ Home Movie
Taught at CU Boulder!!

Painting or scratching on celluloid, using multiple exposures and rapid movements to mimic the movement of the human eye.

Barbara Hershey
Ron Silver

Works with Found Footage heavily editing it in a dark room without technology
Has done 3 films with footage from The Entity

Written by William Peter Blatty
Linda Blair
Ellen Burstyn
Jason Miller - Father Carris
Max Von Sydow - Father Merrin
Mercedes McCambridge
Starts in Northern Iraq then Georgetown, MA

Fred A. Leuchter Jr.
From Boston, MA
Machine - Interotron
Theme of Lightning

Genevieve Lemon
Karen Colston
Jon Darling
Paul Livingston - Teddy

Benedict Cumberbatch
Kodi Smit-McPhee
Genevive Lemon - Mrs. Louis
Jesse Plemons
Kristen Dunst
Cinematographer - R.A. Wagner
Composer: Johnny Greenwood

Freud's Interpretation of Dreams (1899)

Fear and Desire

Foley Artist

Walter Merch and Edward Snowden

The Foley Artist for The Conversation

Breathless - 1960 - Jean-Luc Godard

Outer Space, Hacked Circuit, The Girl Chewing Gum

Mothlight - 1963 - Stan Brackage

Image/ sound relationship
e.g. film sprokets in Outer Space and the unreliable narrator in The Girl Chewing Gum

Thomas Edison electrocuting an elephant and "The Triumph of the Will" propaganda with Ernst Zundl

The Thin Blue Line

Robert Jan Van Pelt

The Bride of Frankenstein

Alexander Hammid

The remains of Prince Charming

1) The opening scene where a man slits a woman's eye with a razor, creating a sense of horror and violence
2) The scene where a young man gropes a young woman's breasts, while imagining her nude, showing his sexual desire and aggression.
3) The scene where a priest or nun is dragged by ropes attached to two grand pianos, each containing the rotting carcasses of two donkeys, symbolizing the repression of sexual desires and the burden of religion.
4) The scene where an androgynous woman is run over by a car, while a policeman watches with sadistic pleasure, suggesting the danger and death of those who do not conform to society's norms

43; testament to great costume and makeup

Plastic qualities of film. Abstract films are non-narrative, contain no acting and do not attempt to reference reality or concrete subjects. They rely on the unique qualities of motion, rhythm, light and composition inherent in the technical medium of cinema to create emotional experiences.

Juxtaposes images and ideas the suggest certain things, use repeated motifs and layered sets of images to create a poetic and expressive effect.

the transition of sound in between shots

The total world of the story action

Highly stylized, jarring aesthetics
Challenges mythologies of romance, gender, nation and cinema itself
Provocative and even controversial

Music of Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner
Who wrote "The Principles of Documentary?"

John Grierson

Jonas Mekas

co-founded Anthology Film Archives, The Film-Makers' Cooperative, and the Journal Film Culture
Launched anti-censorship campaign for LGBTQ films in the 1960s

Uses different techniques from narrative films
Testing human knowledge, belief that truth is relative/ ambiguous
Reflexive and self-conscious: bends beliefs and habits, controlling what we are able to see