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Cinematic Level
• The items that make a movie a movie!
• What you see on film cannot be seen anywhere else!
Shot
• A single, uninterrupted piece of film
• The image that is seen on-screen until it is replaced by another image through editing
• If the camera moves while still filming, but without breaks, that is still one shot
• Practice: Snap every time you see a new shot in these clips.
Rope
Mise en Scene
• Pronounced: meez en sen
• Visual arrangement of all visual elements within an area
• Used to be “stage”
• Now….the screen
Armageddon
American Beauty
Framing
• How the object in the shot will be positioned and filmed.
• How much of the frame of the screen the object will occupy
• Similar to cropping in photography
• 3 main types
Long Shot
• Object on screen appears small or far away
• Oftentimes used as an “establishing shot”• To show where the film takes place• Location, time
• Objects and characters may seem unclear or indistinct because of a lack of detail
Long Shot
Enemy of the State
Effects of a Long Shot?
• Show where the action will take place.
• Force the viewer to focus on one or two things in focus • Those must be important
• To show that something is weak or powerless • It’s so small physically and power-ly!
The Graduate
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Close-Up
• Object in focus takes up about 80% of the screen space
• Object appears very large
• Forces viewer to look at ONLY what the director intends
Close-Up
The Graduate
Effects of a Close Up?
• Object in frame is to be seen as important.
• Often used as foreshadowing.
• Can show characters’ reactions.
• Can show emotions.
• Can create tension since only a small portion of “the real world” is on screen (while other stuff must be happening!)
Mission Impossible
Cool Hand Luke
Psycho
Medium Shot
• From about the waist up
• The most common and most naturalistic framing choice
• A “neutral framing”
• Seems comfortable and unobtrusive• What does unobtrusive mean?
Medium Shot
• Effects?Dodgeball
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Camera Angles
• Where the camera will be placed in relation to the subject
• There are 4 main angles directors use
Low Angle
• Camera is below the subject being filmed
The Graduate
Effects of a Low Angle?
• Framed item is seen “from below.”
• Item looks large = powerful
• Item can be seen as• Powerful• Dominant• Important
• Could just be about location – looking UP at something!
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
High Angle
• Camera is above the subject being filmed
Fargo
Effects of a High Angle?
• Framed item is seen “from above.”
• Item looks small = weak
• Item can be seen as• Weak• Powerless• Inferior
• Could just be about location – looking DOWN at something.
Psycho
Mission Impossible
The Graduate
Psycho
Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World’s End
Eye Level
• Camera is at the same level as the subject being shot.
• This is a “neutral camera angle”
Dutch Angle
• Object in the frame is “canted” or angled
The Shining
Effects of a Dutch Angle
• Object in frame is “tilted.”
• Object is literally “off kilter”• Could imply that the scene is
emotionally off kilter or imbalanced.
• Situation is unstable
Do the Right Thing
Do the Right Thing
The Departed
Camera Movement
• Pan• When a camera pivots on a horizontal axis• Side to side!
• Tilt• When a camera pivots on a vertical axis• Up and down!
• Zoom• Focal length of a camera changes• More or less of an object is “framed”
• Tracking / Dolly Shots• Camera actually moves!• Could be around, into, above, or through a subject
Lighting
• The principle source of light for filming
• 3 main types
Low-Key Lighting
• Much darkness
• Many shadows
Double Indemnity
Effects of Low-Key Lighting
• Many shadows are created
• Ohhh….scary!
• Suspense
• Uncertainty
• Doubt
Shakespeare in Love
High-Key Lighting
• Brightness
• Openness
• Lack of shadows
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Effects of High-Key Lighting
• No shadows
• Everything is washed in full light
• Excitement
• “On the level” - honest
Bottom / Side / Back Lighting
• When the light source is either from the bottom, side, or back of the subject.
• Certain features are highlighted (no pun intended)
The Graduate
Frost / Nixon
Effects of Bottom / Side /
Back Lighting• Certain features are highlighted.
• Creates suspense
• Could signify that a character is multi faceted• “Two-faced”• Complex
Front Lighting
• From directly in front of the subject
• Creates a bit of a “halo effect”
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Sound
• An integral component of the film experience.
• Imagine a scary movie with the sound turned down; it just seems silly!
Diegetic Sound
• Pronounced - die-uh-je-tik
• Any sound that could be logically heard by a character within the film.
• If a character speaks or a cat growls
• The characters in the film and the audience hear roughly the same thing• (Or could hear the same thing)
Nondiegetic Sound
• Sound that cannot be logically heard by a character.
• Soundtrack!
• Intended only for the audience
• Voice-over narration is included in this categoryTrack 1
Track 2
Track 3
Track 4
Editing
• Methods by which a director chooses to move from one shot to another.
• The point is to make cuts but for them to be SUBTLE!
Fade
• When the on-screen image slowly fades away to white or black
• Slow transition
• Not realistic
• Effects?• Time has passed. • Amount depends on the length of time in black
Dissolve
• Image slowly fades out
• Before fading completely out – new image fades in
• Slow transition
• Effects?• The first scene leads to the next.• The two are connected in some way.
Crosscut
• Parallel editing
• Cut from one scene immediately to another
• Effects?• Scenes are happening at the same time.• Can create suspense!
Eye-Line Match
• Also called a point of view shot
• Camera cuts to what the person is looking at as if through their eyes
• Effects?• Puts viewer in the shoes of a character.