Transcript Tuesday August 26th - L.C. Anderson High SchoolAudio Video

Welcome!
What are we doing today?
Practicum:
IB FILM:
Collect the following:
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Course fee, Talent release
form, equipment agreement,
Syllabus signed.
Trojan Fest this Saturday
Discuss Announcements – Need a
crew of 4
Discuss weekly schedule for class
The Beginning of Cinema lecture
Get to know new equipment
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Don’t forget: watch films during the
weekend (DUE SEPTEMBER 8TH)
Start organizing media for your video
essay assignment
Get a HD for your work (at least 100GB)
Homework: Read the IB Film
Guide on the website
 Check out the Rough draft list
of films so you can start
watching the films ahead of
time
 Sign up to lead 1st discussion
on films
Your “Me Documentary” Assignment
 A 5-10 minute
documentary
about yourself
and your life,
where you have
been, where you
want to go…
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A documentary script in correct
format (see example)
At least 5 photos (baby photos and
current photos). Use Ken Burns or
other types of keyframing
1 list of 10 questions for interviews
Four interviews: Yourself, parents,
friends, and a teacher.
Voice over (optional, but
recommended. Commentary should
be insightful and reflexive)
B-roll of you, things you do, family
gathering, friend get-togethers, etc.
Montage of some of your past work
in film.
Title, credits, and soundtrack
5 minute Warm-up activity
1. Find a partner and introduce yourself.
2. Face each other, in such a way that
one partner is facing the board and the
other has his/her back to the board.
3. Challenge for those facing the board:
Without giving away the title of the film, get
your partner to guess what film you’re
talking about!
Back to the Future
(1985)
Men in Black (1997)
Wizard of Oz (1939)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Students with a movie camera
What happens when you have too much freedom!
CINEMA: THE BEGINNING
Early Cinema 1895-1915
Overview
 The history of film spans over a hundred years, from the
later part of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st.
 Motion pictures developed gradually from a carnival
novelty to one of the most important tools of
communication and entertainment in the 20th century.
 Early cinema developed as a result of experiments with
still photographs to create a sense of movement.
 Movies were more or less silent (synchronous sound was
not developed until 1927) although accompanied by live
musicians and sometimes sound effects, and with
dialogue and narration presented in intertitles.
Early Cameras
 “Cameras” were devices that gave the
illusion of motion: examples were the
Phenakistoscope (1832), Zoetrope
(1834), and Praxinoscope (1877).
 Earliest movie cameras were fixed in
position during the course of the shot,
and hence the first camera movements
were the result of mounting a camera on
a moving vehicle/train. This was called
“Phantom Ride.”
Early Illusion Toys
Phenakistoscope
Praxinoscope
Zoetrope
Early Experiments
Muybridge Studies
 Eadweard Muybridge was asked, in
1873, by the ex-governor of California Leland Stanford to settle a bet as to
whether horses’ hooves left the ground
when they galloped. He did this by
setting up a bank of twelve cameras with
trip-wires connected to their shutters,
each camera took a picture when the
horse tripped its wire. Muybridge
developed a projector similar to the
Zoetrope to present his finding.
(Hooves leave the ground!)
Pioneers of Early Cinema
 Thomas A. Edison
 Louis and Auguste Lumiere
 George Melies
 Alice Guy Blache
 Edwin Porter
 D.W. Griffith
Pioneers of Early Cinema
Alice Guy Blache
First Female Director
cinematic
language
George Melies
Father of Narrative Film
*Edwin Porter “Father of continuity Editing”
D.W. Griffith
Father of
Before 1989
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Films were categorized as : Magic lantern shows or early cell animation
1989 – development of celluloid film which allowed moving pictures.
1891 – Edison develops Kinetoscope (people could drop pennies to view films) (US)
1895 – Lumiere brothers develop a similar device called the cinematographe (France)
1900 – most films are “actuality films”
1901 – Edison builds first indoor studio.
1902 – films begin to tell stories (Great Train Roberry, 1903)
1905 – Nickelodeons are born (5 cent attractions) . These were seen as immoral and indecent
by some.
1910 – movie stars are born
1911- major studios are considering moving to California (plenty of light and space for filming)
1913-1018 - United Artists (Chaplin and DW Griffith among others) create a union to give actors
freedom in which movies they appear.
1919-1927 – The “Golden Age” of cinema – Gargo, Chaney, Chaplin, Keaton, Valentino, and
Loyd are popular starts.
1920’s – color film sequences start to appear and the Vitaphone (sound disks) begin to get
incorporated into the theater experience.
1927 – The Jazz Singer comes out – Combines sound and silent segments – end of silent film
era
Timeline of Important Events
 Joseph Niepce and Louis Deguerre invented
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photography (1827)
Invention of celluloid film by George Eastman
(1888)
Eadwaerd Muybridge studies (1870’s)
Thomas Edison invents the Kinetoscope in the
U.S. (1889)
Lumiere brothers invnent the Cinematographe
in France (1895)
George Melies makes longer films and
experimented with special effects
Movie Examples
 Early Edison films
 The arrival of the Train at La Ciotat
(1895)
 Man with a movie camera
Early Edison Films
The Arrival of the Train at La
Ciotat
The Man with the Movie
camera
Early Silent Cinema
 Focused on the human experience – a lot of physical
comedies (Keaton and Chaplin)
 Experimental in nature – technology was developing
along with the art form.
 No live sound recorded on the actual film strip – films
were often screened in theaters with a live orchestras.
How does this change the viewing experience?
 What else?
Questions for review (20
minutes)
On your own, answer the following questions:
 What influences of the silent cinema era are still practiced
or seen in contemporary films? Justify your answer by
giving examples.
 How does the invention of cinematic technology influence
the filmmaking practices of a particular decade?
 Come up with at least 5 questions that you could ask
about the silent film era on your own.
Early Film Effects
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Superimposition, resulting in “ghost” effect.
Reverse action, slow and fast speed action.
Dissolve one image into another.
Duplication of images.
Example:
The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots (1895)
The executioner brings his axe down, and the queen's
severed head drops onto the ground. This trick was
worked by stopping the camera and replacing the actor
with a dummy, then restarting the camera before the axe
falls. The two pieces of film were then trimmed and
cemented together so that the action appeared
continuous when the film was shown.
Voyage Dans la Lune (1902)
 A fifteen minute epic fantasy parodying
the writings of Jules Verne and HG
Wells. The film used innovative special
effect techniques and introduced color to
the screen through hand-painting and
tinting.
 What elements of this film are still
practiced today?
Rotation Stations
 You will be rotating stations (15
minutes): Tripods, Cameras, and
Reading
 Tripods: Practice putting the different cameras on the tripods
and folding the tripods, using the wireless mics on the small
Panasonic cameras, turning them on, finding their functions,
etc.
 Cameras: Take a look at some of the new cameras – Turn them
on, find the functions, etc. Read the manuals, get comfortable
using them. Take photos around the room, etc.
 Reading: Pages 38-42 and 44-53; Write notes using Cornell
Note paper