Story of Film Episode 1 – Birth of the Cinema

Introduction

Saving Private Ryan (1998) dir. Steven Spielberg

  • The camera is everywhere
  • A lie to tell the truth

Three Colors: Blue (1993) dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski

  • Use some sort of flashing light to link two different characters together

Casablanca (1942) dir. Michael Curtiz

Romantic movies are always in a rush

The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) dir. Yasujirō Ozu

The romantic scene is a pause in the story

Hollywood isn’t classical but japan is

Odd Man Out (1947) dir. Carol Reed

Using bubbles to reflect and see own problems in the characters

Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967) dir. Jean-Luc Godard

Taxi Driver (1976) dir. Martin Scorsese

Using bubbles to reflect and see own problems in the characters

The French Connection (1971) dir. William Friedkin

1895-1918: The World Discovers a New Art Form or Birth of the Cinema

Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge (1888) dir. Louis Le Prince

The Kiss (1896 film) (a.k.a. May Irwin Kiss) (1896) dir. William Heise

Kissing is a moment that everyone can understand

Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895) dir. Louis Lumière

Was the first movie that Lumiere shot

Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896) dir. Louis Lumière

Was one of the first movies that was shown to more than just one person at a time

Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1894-1896 ?) dir. William Kennedy Dickson or William Heise

Want to make use be like a cowboy or and princess

Sandow (1894) dir. William Kennedy Dickson

What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City (1901) dir. George S. Fleming and Edwin S. Porter

Can give viusalys flash backs and other things

Cendrillon (1899) dir. Georges Méliès

Jump cuts was made by acadent

Le voyage dans la lune (1902) dir. Georges Méliès

La lune à un mètre (1898) dir. Georges Méliès

The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899) dir. George Albert Smith

Had the first tracking shot. Was shot in on the front of a train. Ended up being known as the phantom ride

Shoah (1985) dir. Claude Lanzmann

Used phantom ride to use as a more serious tone

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) dir. Stanley Kubrick

Used phantom ride as a out of body experience

The Sick Kitten (1903) dir. George Albert Smith

Used the close up for the first time in cinema

October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928) dir. Sergei Eisenstein

Uses close up of dead people to give people a sense of tragedy

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) dir. Sergio Leone

Uses a closeup shot to show that the character ends up realising something important

The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897) dir. Enoch J. Rector

Used a 65mm wide shot to get more of the scene for the first time

 

1903-1918: The Thrill Becomes Story or The Hollywood Dream

Life of an American Fireman (1903) dir. Edwin S. Porter

Keeps cutting inside and outside of the house to help the audience follow the story

Sherlock Jr. (1924) dir. Buster Keaton

Shot a scene using double exposure

The Horse that Bolted (1907) dir. Charles Pathé

Using cuts to show what’s happening at the same time

The Assassination of the Duke of Guise (a.k.a. The Assassination of the Duc de Guise) (1908) dir. Charles le Bargyand André Calmettes

The reverse angle shot first became a thing in cinema

Vivre sa vie (1962) dir. Jean-Luc Godard

Did not show the face of the actress gave a shocking effect

Those Awful Hats (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith

The Mended Lute (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith

The Abyss (1910) dir. Urban Gad

Less censorship in Europe so the actress became more famous

Stage Struck (1925) dir. Allan Dwan

Added costumes

Added an element of sublime to stardom

The Mysterious X (1914) dir. Benjamin Christensen

Drawing on film and cross-cutting was one of the most daring debuts in film history

Häxan (1922) dir. Benjamin Christensen

Ingeborg Holm (1913) dir. Victor Sjöström

Had natruliesem and grace

The Phantom Carriage (1921) dir. Victor Sjöström

Had stories within stories

Had moods within moods

Shanghai Express (1932) dir. Josef von Sternberg

Youth and glamor came out of its test tubes

The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) dir. Charles Tait

Was the first feature-length film

The Squaw Man (1914) dir. Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille

The first Hollywood featured film

The Empire Strikes Back (1980) dir. Irvin Kershner

Because the editing was correct, Vader and his underling looked like they were looking at each other

Falling Leaves (1912) dir. Alice Guy-Blaché

Suspense (1913) dir. Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber

Uses a sideways pov shot and uses and split screen to show the wife, the husband, and the introter

Uses different angles to show the threat of the film

The Wind (1928) dir. Victor Sjöström

The wind shows the man that the women killed and it reminded the girl of her fears

Rescued from an Eagle’s Nest (1908) dir. J. Searle Dawley

The House with Closed Shutters (1910) dir. D. W. Griffith

Film had a tendency to be staged

Way Down East (1920) dir. D. W. Griffith

Orphans of the Storm (1921) dir. D. W. Griffith

Used the psychology intensity of a lens which made the actors stand out aginst backgrounds

The Birth of a Nation (1915) dir. D. W. Griffith

Showed the part of cinema and it’s danger

Mixed epic and intament

Rebirth of a Nation (2007) dir. DJ Spooky

Played with the toxic scene

Cabiria (1914) dir. Giovanni Pastrone

Moving dolly shots

Intolerance (1916) dir. D. W. Griffith

Cuts where saying look all of these different events show the same human tratis

Souls on the Road (a.k.a. Rojo No Reikan) (1921) dir. Minoru Murata

Two stories intertwine at the end of the film into one story

The Story of Film:Episode 8 – New Directors, New Form

1965-1969: New Waves – Sweep Around the World.

Full of symbols of the world turned upside-down

Andrzej hid meaning in symbols

The film was condemned by the authorities because it wasn’t social enough

“Is one of the most hauntingly symbolic movies in the story of film”

In the communist world, firemen where protrade as “heroic public servants” but in the film, they are protrade as incompetent and imager

Shows a scene with only 10 camera movements

No one in the story of film used long takes better to evoke suffering

The wide-angle lens makes the perspective plunge

The movie was banned for 6 years because it was religious

Was everything that soviet realists hated

  • Andrei Tarkovsky & Sergei Parajanov – Islands (1988) dir. Levon Grigoryan
  • Boy (1969) dir. Nagisa Oshima

Oshima is showing the cynicism of modern Japan

Films an insect as a no-nonsense metaphor for human beings struggling over life’s rough terrain

Shows the family getting cut by history via train going through the background

he found a way to combine innovated film Style with fiercely anti-colonialist ideas

Was rejected by many Cuban film makers

The crane shot was so beautiful that the shot was used much later in the future but before that the film was forgotten in America

Believed that the beauty of the shot like this, a camera on wings, the soul of the dead student will make the idea of the revolution itself beautiful

The mask, a gift in the spirit of hope has become a death mask, a gelt mask, a weapon

Shot in black and white, on real stress, no exterior lights

shows how Loach turns his sense of collective experience

Wanted to show how joyes the youth rebouln was

 

 

Shot with no emotion

Black and white make up smudged, harsh lighting

Pushed the relationship between documentary TV and American fiction cinema as far as it could go

Wexler turns the camera directly on the audience as if we’re being filmed to make us think about how we’re represented and about the politics of filming  itself

Made this road movie that defined its era

Keeps cutting back and forth between two scents

Cuts out more time then any other edit in movie history

The Story of Film:Episode 7 – European New Wave

1957-1964: The Shock of the New – Modern Filmmaking in Western Europe.

Movies were not the new young light art form

Was amongst the most sensuous of its time

Allowed the actress to look straight into the camera

Shows the evolution in Ingmar Bergman’s thinking

Bergman use film as confessional and a self-aware medium

The film seemed like a pure conscience and then the sub-conscience erupted

“The lense is 50 mm and the lighting is flat and the close are what ordinary people wear.”

The pickpocket is blank

Close up and simple framing

“The frame doesn’t move but our eyes do”

Main character seems to step out of their world and look at it

Perfectly captures the spirit of the new wave

The film questions whats real

No previous film has been about uncertainty

Used cut to show the same thing but with the sunlight in a different direction

Cut used always to show something else

Used cuts to show a man mental agitation

Brakes the space into pieces

Passionately captured his life experiences

the Simplicity of the filming of Joan of Arc influence one of the actresses in this film

The visual style was really innovative

In a scene the foreground and background were far apart but in focus

Time has stood still.

“Sergio Leone channeling the Italian neorealist idea that time in cinema should be real like life”

Has a shot rise up as if to view the whole human history

They loved the idea of waiting for the future

The bright color and clothing makes you think that it’s some sort of celebration, but it’s not

“Shot in a moving tram, a kind of working-class crane shot”

Antonioni films looked like canvases of modern life

The camera seems to go for a walk

The shot is about the street as much as the people

The Story of Film Episode 3 – The Golden Age of World Cinema

Episode 3 – The Golden Age of World Cinema

1918-1932: The Great Rebel Filmmakers Around the World

Soft lighting

Shallow focus

Makeup

Dream like

The film is a riot of screal produced designed

Lubitsch had to be inventive when it came to portraying sexuality when he moved to America

Shows frame one by one and flash past giving us an impression of his final moments

Made mainstream romantic cinema look static in comparison

Used camera movement

The most influential movies of the expressional movies

The story had a political edge

Jagged lighting showed the extreme mental state

Made his first important film

The editing and imagery in psychotic as well instead of just the characters

Combined the fleeting techniques of impressionism with the deep on ease of expressionism

The second great Japanes film

Tells the story of clashes between workers and an authoritarian industrialist in a giant city

“Exploitation and urban Paradise were profoundly influential”

The woman is a symbol of greed

Was voted the best film of all time by french critics

Looked like biology that he painted on glass

One of the first abstract animations

An attempt to show how the unconscious worked

The montages of attractions

Interested in matching his shots

His frames were windows are very balanced pictorial worlds

The boldness of the staging of the scene

The thought of suicide is a key moment in the story of the film

It cuts away from the expressed emotion

The attempt of suicide is depicted beautifully

The actress’s face is scalped in light

Shallow focus

Emphasizing the actress’s eyes

Period Costumes

Used inventive camera angels and symbolism to show how some men really seduce women

The actress had to sell her body to pay for her son’s education

to show how real the world can be

The Story of Film Episode 4 – The Arrival of Sound

Episode 4 – The Arrival of Sound

The 1930s: The Great American Movie Genres…

  • Her Dilemma (a.k.a. Confessions of a Co-Ed) (1931) dir. Dudley Murphy

The sound was the main thing

Picture was secondary

The lighting is falter

If you shot a close up and a wide shot at the same time, you can’t light them differently

Cinema became far less cinematic

Depicts the morning awakening of Paris as a kind of emerging symphony of everyday noises

Sound is a metaphor for travel sound is the thing that cinema follows

The tender performance made Frankenstein studio cinema greatest performance in prejudice

Horror Cinema is often about the dread of on scene

One of the first great gangster pictures

Turning the gangster genre into Greek tragedy

Used trade mark crane shots

Mixed gangster themes with a traditional Japanese story

Became one of the most influential films of all time

Was perhaps of the best Gangster films of the lot

 

Showed  so much about the Western genre

 

Difference between western movies and gangster movies

Was one of the first new farcical female films

Entire apartment is white so the characters stand out more

Overlapping lines gave films more realism

Realism and surrealism is a sparking combination in sound Cinema

The greatest Optimist the cinema has ever produced

 

Was choreographed by one of the most Innovative people in musicals

The finale was one of the most Innovative moments in 30 Cinema

 

 

first Mickey Mouse film

Had a real actress in costume and transcribe the individual images of her onto paper

 

…And the Brilliance of European Film

 

The corridor scene was shot in a barrel and spun

composer wrote the music to be played backwards

the film was seen as an attack on French schools and band until the 1940s

Use machine guns instead of buckets to Rebelle

 

one of the signature poetic realist films

it’s story sweeps through the many lives of people

a street scene becomes Theatre

Aristocrats that know nothing of real life

“War films and most genre films of the 30s usually stereotyped goodies and Baddies”

Constantly wanted to put wedges in his film

He liked his films to zigzag and to go off of tangents

Made its first surviving innovated movie

 

Non genre film made waves

 

 

Images where geometric, epic euphoric, bombastic

the feeling of intimacy with lenses became available around 1932

Turned some shots upside down to make them sore

use people from concentration camps as extras

70s pictures of African people are similar to athletes pictures in the 30s

his camera becomes the eye

 

 

shock and tragedy

fear is from knowing that the shock is coming

film is obsessed with hands

Close-ups are crashes of symbols

uses no music like whisper dialogue

 lots of noise takes away from the tiny details

a high-angle shot is a tremolo

Lit like romantic Cinema in the 1920s

False dream and understands that there’s no place like home

Starts in a fantasy world but then ends in the real world and War

“one of the most Escapist films ever made but the content explicitly attacks escapism”

The Story of Film:Episode 6 – Sex & Melodrama

1953-1957: The Swollen Story: World Cinema Bursting at the Seams

The first great African film

The first great Arab film

It captured the tension of its time

Low angle light is the opposite of Hollywood

Scenics predate realism

This cinematography had texture, luster, and tenderness

Seeing a real Indian village on screen for the first time

“The world of Pather Panchali made it a huge hit”

Seems she was filmed by candlelight

Filmed in much more earthy color

The was that the pesents stand echos Hollywood but also soviet propaganda

Everything placed in a moving frame

With moving shots, it seems that the roof of the stage is rising

The shot pulls back to show the breath of life

The is set in the past but it echos in the 50s because of it the beginning of a new era

“Advancing like a nightmare”

The body jerking as it dies

Widescreen, bright color

One of Brazil’s first innovated films

Starts with an aerial shot

Bold use of deep staging

Had multiple storylines

Fernando de Fuentes virtually invented Mexican national cinema

Often portrayed mixed racial characters

“The scene where luminous, space deep and rounded by light”

It’s far more innovated and subversive then it seems

The director exposes the conformity and viciousness of the 50s American dream

The background is designed like a cave

The actress dressed in black like a villain

Shot silent and light from below

Combine macsulent costumes, bodily close-ups, low-level lighting and, fetishism

Character rather then gloss

To prepare for the scene, Brando will have to remember some of the furry of his personal life

The scene filmed with wide-angle lenses to make the image bulge

In 50s cinema, the biggest drama of them all

Where tot story of his nation on a human scale

Sees the heat of the Arab sun in the match

Lindsay Anderson thought that human being where selfish

The most famous leftist film in movie history

The working classes were pictured as Nobel types

Sex was coming out into the open in the movies

The Story of Film Episode 5 – Post-War Cinema

1939-1952: The Devastation of War…And a New Movie Language

New film language, Nio realism

Type of film making that deals with the trama of the war

Used classically composed pastoral wide shots

Combined deep staging with deep focus

Deep staging and deep focus gave the audience a choice where to look

Staging in depth

Shallow focus

Pushing deep staging

Deep staging forces scale

Like Shakespeare, Orson Welles looked to the past too times before democracy and liberalism

Tracking shots

Epic scale

Outlandish production values

Deep focus

“It is if the crucial action was sucked away by a black hole”

forced to imagine the conversation

 

Used deep space to move our eyes

“The effect was one of tension”

the space is shallow

the actors are in the back like a washing line

Long lenses in the sixties and seventies excited directors about very shallow Focus

 

the Focus was so shallow that the lights in the back on we’re just blobs

 

kept the shot far back

tracking shot in films like this one show that they’re not afraid of conventional filming

 

one of the earliest and most influential

The actress and the wall at the end of the corridor or both in focus

  • Portrait of a 66% Perfect Man: Billy Wilder (1982) dir. Annie Tresgot

 

light casts a grid of Shadows

Was the most influential film Noir since double indemnity

 

“The climax Luke discovered in Hollywood Romance that Darth Vader is his father”

“Bracket had help to bring traditional movie storytelling into the 70s”

the women in film Noir hunt the films

you spotlighting and subjective camera

 

 

 

 

 

  • American Cinema: Film Noir (1995) dir. Alain Klarer

 

Normal noir films we would see the face but in this one we see the back of their head

About the anxiety of couple who robbed banks

 

“walks through shadows in a pool of light like a film noir”

 

all Shadows low camera angle

Sweeping camera moves

romantic Cinema continued

the reaction shots were more telling than ever

dance scene was influenced by the  success of the remarkable one

flashing red lights and painted Studio backdrops

so joyful that the rain is pleasure

 

 

“Change in life and work Echoes the change of Hollywood”

use an Innovative technique to challenge censorship

movie intercuts the time periods

plunges us into a moment of serious drama

“Shallow focus rich color and Lighting”

a directing with a poetic Style

felt there was a force field between shots

a great moral crime

deep shot

didn’t cut or edit the walk

Filmed many shots off of the horizontal axis to show the  Morel imbalance

One of the most daring endings in mainstream film history

One of the greatest films ever made

Is a compendium of 40s Cinema”

“Felt that Cinema had to engage more with reality”

 

Story of film Episode 2 – The Hollywood Dream

1918-1928: The Triumph of American Film…

Shows controlled lighting

Costumes became lifestyles

Soft lighting shallow focus

Love sets in motion for the rest of the film

Used light to cast shadows

Used dollys to make the image glide

Shadows had light in them

Harder shadows sharper lighting

Shows fascination with the camera

Movies were about looking

Was brilliant about looking

The climax was called the most stunning visual event ever arranged for a comedy

Fines grumpiness funny

It showed how Charlie Chaplin’s mind worked

The film humanized comic cinema

Close up of hands suggest twitchy mentally energy

It’s a great medaphore because it shows Hitler making the world his toy

Ends with one of the most famous scenes of 20s cinema

Was influenced by Sam Taylor and his ballsy stunts

…And the First of its Rebels

Has beautiful but scenic shots

Used tracking shots to turn a home for people with leprosy into a film poem

Used realism

Uses more realism

The whole screen in yellow to show the same color as money to show that the whole world is full of greed in that story

Tried to show more realism

Became the greatest pre-wall street crash social problem picture of its time

Used dolls and small decks in the background to force perspective

Used the rebellious idea of realism in cites

Uses a door to make a slit on screen like a Vermeer painting

Used no makeup on the actress and the scene in the movie even made some of the electricians cried

No depth to the image and nothing in the background

The walls were painted pink to remove the glare so it id not retracted from the actress’s face

 

Want’s to simplify and purify his images in a protestant way

The use of whiteness was wildly rebellious

Session 5

SonnySixteen Film CC images at Flickr

Summary

The goal that I want to make in editing is to keep organized and to keep track of all my progress. A personal goal I have is to learn how to edit well.

21st Century Skills

I didn’t really know what we should have made. There were some people that were absent for the first few days of per production and that messed up somethings that could have made a difference in our film.  I used adobe premiere pro to edit. I don’t know what I want to do in the future for a career.

 

The FILM

Reactions to Final Version

Some people said it wasn’t bad but could have been better.

Evaluation of Final Version

The film wasn’t bad but it could have been better then what it was. I don’t think I did badly when it came to editing for the second time. I think I did better than the first time I edited a film.

What I Learned and Problems I Solved

I learned that being organized is important. I also learned that I need to cut parts of the video that don’t need to be there. I also learned that attendance is important.

Gammer and Spelling

I used Grammarly as my spelling tool

Editor

Michel

Don’t know

Summary

Role

I am the editor of the group in this filming session. I have edited for one of the films in the last semester, so I want to do a better job then I did last time on editing the film for this session.

Intention

Some of the skills I have in editing is the very beginner knowledge for editing a video or short film. The goal I have is to make a better film than the last one I was helped make. It is a goal that I set now because I know I can do it if I try.

Pre-Production

Leader(s) in the field/Exemplary Work(s)

Some of the reasons why editing the film are important is because without the editor, then the way you saw the film in your head won’t end up what you wanted to have for the finished product.  The editor can end up changing the way a movie can go. They could make a bad movie a not half bad one or, they can make a really good movie to a bad one. The editor can also clean up the film and cut out scenes that don’t need to be in the film or, cut stuff out that shouldn’t have happened.  (Info was gathered at https://www.sheffieldav.com/production/importance-video-editing)

 

Primary Source

Secondary Source

Training Source(s)

0:30 Don’t cut out things from a long film. Take the best shots instead and ou them instead

1:27  Match the audio and video together

1:50 Cut out things that don’t give attention

2:33 Cut to show that the scene is important

3:03 Use power for misdirecting

3:32 Cut when they blink

4:25 Trust what feels right

 

 

 

 

Project Timeline

  • Make a script
  • Use Fibernatchi numbers
  • Find setting
  • Find acters
  • Record shots
  • Record audio
  • Edit film
  • Make the presentation