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Cinema Appreciation
Test 1: Editing, Mise-en-Scene, Film Language, Sound
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Undergraduate 1
07/09/2008

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Thomas Edison invented...
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Kinetoscope
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Kinetoscope
Definition
a box that showed moving images invented by Thomas Edison
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Films by Thomas Edison
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The Kiss; Serpentine Dancersl; Sandow the Strong Man
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Lumiere Brothers
Definition
First to project films onto a screen
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Films by the Lumiere Brothers
Definition
Exiting the factory; Arival of a Train; baby's lunch; watering the gardner
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George Melies
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A trip to the moon
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Edwin S. Porter
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The Great Train Robbery
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IMR
Definition
Industrialized mode of Representation
1.) Spectator is put inside the action of the Movie
2.) Films are made for the spectator to be a middle class, straight, white male
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PMR
Definition
Primitive mode of Representation
Spectator is outside the action of the film and views the movie like a play
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D.W. Griffith
Definition
Birth of a Nation
First feature length film
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First Hollywood Sound Movie
Definition
The Jazz Singer
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Rythme
Definition

How fast the movie cuts

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Kuleshov

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A film meaning comes from what shots are juxtaposed against eachother

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Eisenstein came up with the
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Theory of Montage or Collision Montage
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Theory of Montage or Collision Montage
Definition
Concrete Image + Concrete Image = Abstract Idea

Crested by Eisentstein
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Andrai Bazin created
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Deep focus Cinematography
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Deep Focus Cinematography
Definition
meaning comes from long drawn out shots where the viewer can see all character of their surrondings

Created by Bazin
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Reasons why people stopped going to the movies in the 1950's
Definition
1.) Television
2.) Recreational activites
3.) People moved to the suburbs and away form theaters
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Ways Hollywood tried to bring people back to the theaters
Definition
1.) Drive-ins
2.) 3-D
3.) Big Bibical or Historical Spectacles
4.) Widescreen
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3 ways of Widescreen
Definition
1.) Cineroma
2.) Cinemascope
3.)Todd AO
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Cineroma
Definition
Three cameras put side by side by side
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Cinemascope
Definition
A refractive lens enlarges a squished image on a reel
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Todd AO
Definition
enlarged the regular 35mm reels up to 75mm
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Rule of Thirds
Definition

For a more artistic feel, the most important images are placed in the 1/3 lines in the shot

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Dominant Contrast

Definition
The area of the screen that attracts the spectator's attention due to form
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Subsidiary Contrast
Definition
The area of the screen that counter balances the Dominant Contrast
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Intrinsic Intrest
Definition
Area of the screen that attracts the spectator due to the importance in the story
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Francois Truffaut

Definition
creates 400 Blows and launches the French New Wave
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French New Wave
Definition
Everyday Situation
No big name Stars
No fake Sets
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Auteur Theory
Definition

1.) The director is the author of the film
2.) All director's films have a unity of theme and film language

Term
Conthedral Threory
Definition
Everyone is the Author of the film
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Effects of the Auteur Theory
Definition
1.) The director starts to have fans
2.) Reverse many critical judgments against directors who have been ingnored
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60's flims go two directions
Definition
1.) Older
2.) Younger
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70's films go to directions
Definition

1.) Loss of Hope

2.) Chance for hope

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Platform Distribution
Definition
Movies first come out in NY and LA.
Then bigger Cities
and finally maybe smaller towns
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Saturation Booking
Definition
Releasing all over the country in all types of theaters
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Hero Cycle
Definition

1.) Young hero leavs home

2.) tutroed by a wise old man

3.) conquer evil within himself

4.) Atonement with his father

5.) Hero returns home and creates slavation

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Vitaphone
Definition
records sound
Term
Boom mike
Definition
Micrphone on a big stick
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Sync Sound and Non-Sync Sound
Definition
Sync sound is sound that is recorded with the image
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Foley Artist
Definition
Crestes the post-production Sounds
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Diegetic and Non-diegetic
Definition

A diegetic sound is a sound that in the film or the characters in the film can hear it

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Composition
Definition
how things are arranged in the frame
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Hollywood 3 point lighting
Definition
Lighting that takes all shadows off the face of the characters.  Uses fill light, back light and key light
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Key light
Definition
lights the face
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Back Light

Definition
Sperates character from background
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Fill Light
Definition
Takes the shadows of the sides of the face
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Mise-en-scene
Definition
The way things are arranged in a frame to create meaning.  Includes: costumes, sets, colors, shots,
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