TASK 1
An extreme long shot in filmmaking and television programme sets up, or establishes the context for a scene by showing the relationship between its important figures and object. It is generally a long- or extreme long shot at the beginning of a scene indicating where, and sometimes when, the remainder of the scene takes place.
In filmmaking and video production, a shot is a series of frames that runs for a uninterreptedperiod of time. Films shots are made are an essential aspect of a movie where angles, transitions and cuts are used to further express emotion, ideas and movements. The order of shots can reveal who motivates the edit e.e. which characters perspective is privileged. For example whom do we start and end with or cut most often in a conversation or scene? Who do we see eye line matches for example screen time. Screen is also part of this – which characters do we see most, or which character do we see the perspective of most.
Continuity editing is cutting all shots to tell a story with narrative continuity. This helps the viewer make sense of the action by implying spatial relationships and ensuring smooth flow from shot to shot. This method of editing also creates realism; edit is invisible so action appears real rather than constructed.
Non-continuity
Montage – giving information in compressed form, this may come under non-continuity editing. Non-continuity editing is continuity is broken and construction is more apparent. Meaning often created through juxtaposition.
Transitions are the process pf cutting from one shot to another usually involves a simple straight cut. However there are other means of transition available to editors such as fade to black, dissolve/cross fade and wipe.
Dissolve or cross fade is the preceding shot merging into the following shot, resulting in the two shots being superimposed. The longer the dissolve the more noticeable the superimposition becomes.
Montage editing. Montage is a technique, which series of short shots are edited into a sequence and these shots usually show different periods of time that reference to the film itself. For example at the beginning of The Hulk movie where they introduced the film with the past of hulk and how he became the hulk.
In filmmaking and video production, a shot is a series of frames that runs for a uninterreptedperiod of time. Films shots are made are an essential aspect of a movie where angles, transitions and cuts are used to further express emotion, ideas and movements. The order of shots can reveal who motivates the edit e.e. which characters perspective is privileged. For example whom do we start and end with or cut most often in a conversation or scene? Who do we see eye line matches for example screen time. Screen is also part of this – which characters do we see most, or which character do we see the perspective of most.
Continuity editing is cutting all shots to tell a story with narrative continuity. This helps the viewer make sense of the action by implying spatial relationships and ensuring smooth flow from shot to shot. This method of editing also creates realism; edit is invisible so action appears real rather than constructed.
Non-continuity
Montage – giving information in compressed form, this may come under non-continuity editing. Non-continuity editing is continuity is broken and construction is more apparent. Meaning often created through juxtaposition.
Transitions are the process pf cutting from one shot to another usually involves a simple straight cut. However there are other means of transition available to editors such as fade to black, dissolve/cross fade and wipe.
Dissolve or cross fade is the preceding shot merging into the following shot, resulting in the two shots being superimposed. The longer the dissolve the more noticeable the superimposition becomes.
Montage editing. Montage is a technique, which series of short shots are edited into a sequence and these shots usually show different periods of time that reference to the film itself. For example at the beginning of The Hulk movie where they introduced the film with the past of hulk and how he became the hulk.
task 2,3 and 4
First movie and colour film.
Fully motion films/pictures began in the late 1880’s. Motion pictures were and still are named as the most important tools of entertainment, mostly because it had never been seen before. Through out the first couple of millenniums of the beginning of the film revolution, they were all silent due to the undiscovered audio merge with the film. The ability to merge audio with the visual film was discovered at a later stage of the film revolution, this was in the in the early 1930’s
Lumiere Brothers (Auguste and Louise lumiere)
The Lumiere brothers were born in France in the early 1860’s. The Lumiere brothers began working for they’re farther later on in their life at his photographic firm. Louis worked as a physicist and Auguste work as a manager. The Lumiere brothers began making moving pictures in 1892 when they’re farther retired. The moving pictures it self was released to public eyes in cinemas at the year of 1895 3 years after them processing and adjusting the motions of the pictures. Their first public screening was at the Salon Indien du Grand Café. The screening featured 10 short films and as the one that is known to have made history is the ‘Workers leaving their Lumiere factory’
WD Griffith’s birth of nation.
The Birth of a Nation, landmark silent film, released in 1915, that was the first “blockbuster” Hollywood hit. It was the longest and most profitable film then produced and the most artistically advanced film of its day. It secured both the future of feature-length films and the reception of film as a serious medium. An epic about the American civil war(1861–65) and the reconstruction era that followed, it has long been hailed for its technical and dramatic innovations but condemned for the racism.
Continuity became a popular Hollywood style of editing especially after WD Griffith’s one of the first to input the style of editing into the film, the birth of a nation.
Einstein
Soviet montage theory is an approach to understanding and creating cinema that relies heavily upon editing. Eisenstein describes five methods of montage in his introductory essay. Metric, Rhythmic, Tonal, overtonal and intellectual. These are all his theories.
Metric - where the editing follows a specific number of frames.
Hythmic - includes cutting based on continuity, creating visual continuity from edit to edit.
Tonal - a tonal montage uses the emotional meaning of the shots
Over-tonal - the overtonal montage is the cumulation of metric, rhythmic, and tonal montage to synthesize its effect on the audience for an even more abstract and complicated effect.
Intellectual - uses shots which, combined, elicit an intellectual meaning
Talkies
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades would pass before sound motion pictures were made commercially practical. The primary steps in the commercialization of sound cinema were taken in the mid- to late 1920s.
An extreme long shot in filmmaking and television programme sets up, or establishes the context for a scene by showing the relationship between its important figures and object. It is generally a long- or extreme long shot at the beginning of a scene indicating where, and sometimes when, the remainder of the scene takes place.
In filmmaking and video production, a shot is a series of frames that runs for a uninterreptedperiod of time. Films shots are made are an essential aspect of a movie where angles, transitions and cuts are used to further express emotion, ideas and movements. The order of shots can reveal who motivates the edit eye. Which characters perspective is privileged. For example whom do we start and end with or cut most often in a conversation or scene? Who do we see eye line matches for example screen time. Screen is also part of this – which characters do we see most, or which character do we see the perspective of most.
Continuity editing is cutting all shots to tell a story with narrative continuity. This helps the viewer make sense of the action by implying spatial relationships and ensuring smooth flow from shot to shot. This method of editing also creates realism; edit is invisible so action appears real rather than constructed.
Montage – giving information in compressed form, this may come under non-continuity editing. Non-continuity editing is continuity is broken and construction is more apparent.
However there are other means of transition available to editors such as fade to black, dissolve/cross fade and wipe.
Dissolve or cross fade is the preceding shot merging into the following shot, resulting in the two shots being superimposed. The longer the dissolve the more noticeable the superimposition becomes.
Montage editing. Montage is a technique, which series of short shots are edited into a sequence and these shots usually show different periods of time that reference to the film itself. For example at the beginning of The Hulk movie where they introduced the film with the past of hulk and how he became the hulk. Meaning often created through juxtaposition.
Transitions are the process of cutting from one shot to another usually involves a simple straight cut.
One Shot.
One shot is an edit design for still image recording meaning the characters are moving but the camera is not moving and does not contain any other significant sort of edit such as zoom, camera focus and so forth.
The film camera is a type of photographic camera that takes a rapid sequence of photographs in a strips of film. The first patented film camera was designed in England by Frenchman Louis Le Prince in 1888. It still exists with the National Media Museum in Bradford. Le Prince employed paper bands and celluloid film from John Carbutt and or Blair & Eastman in 1¾-inch width. Thomas Alva Edison created the first motion picture camera patented in the United States. Edison filed a patent on August 24, 1891 for a Kinetographic Camera. Multiple-camera setups may use and synchronized. The films are projected simultaneously, either on a single three-image screen or upon multiple screens forming a complete circle, with gaps between screens through which the projectors illuminate an opposite screen.
Fully motion films/pictures began in the late 1880’s. Motion pictures were and still are named as the most important tools of entertainment, mostly because it had never been seen before. Through out the first couple of millenniums of the beginning of the film revolution, they were all silent due to the undiscovered audio merge with the film. The ability to merge audio with the visual film was discovered at a later stage of the film revolution, this was in the in the early 1930’s
Lumiere Brothers (Auguste and Louise lumiere)
The Lumiere brothers were born in France in the early 1860’s. The Lumiere brothers began working for they’re farther later on in their life at his photographic firm. Louis worked as a physicist and Auguste work as a manager. The Lumiere brothers began making moving pictures in 1892 when they’re farther retired. The moving pictures it self was released to public eyes in cinemas at the year of 1895 3 years after them processing and adjusting the motions of the pictures. Their first public screening was at the Salon Indien du Grand Café. The screening featured 10 short films and as the one that is known to have made history is the ‘Workers leaving their Lumiere factory’
WD Griffith’s birth of nation.
The Birth of a Nation, landmark silent film, released in 1915, that was the first “blockbuster” Hollywood hit. It was the longest and most profitable film then produced and the most artistically advanced film of its day. It secured both the future of feature-length films and the reception of film as a serious medium. An epic about the American civil war(1861–65) and the reconstruction era that followed, it has long been hailed for its technical and dramatic innovations but condemned for the racism.
Continuity became a popular Hollywood style of editing especially after WD Griffith’s one of the first to input the style of editing into the film, the birth of a nation.
Einstein
Soviet montage theory is an approach to understanding and creating cinema that relies heavily upon editing. Eisenstein describes five methods of montage in his introductory essay. Metric, Rhythmic, Tonal, overtonal and intellectual. These are all his theories.
Metric - where the editing follows a specific number of frames.
Hythmic - includes cutting based on continuity, creating visual continuity from edit to edit.
Tonal - a tonal montage uses the emotional meaning of the shots
Over-tonal - the overtonal montage is the cumulation of metric, rhythmic, and tonal montage to synthesize its effect on the audience for an even more abstract and complicated effect.
Intellectual - uses shots which, combined, elicit an intellectual meaning
Talkies
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades would pass before sound motion pictures were made commercially practical. The primary steps in the commercialization of sound cinema were taken in the mid- to late 1920s.
An extreme long shot in filmmaking and television programme sets up, or establishes the context for a scene by showing the relationship between its important figures and object. It is generally a long- or extreme long shot at the beginning of a scene indicating where, and sometimes when, the remainder of the scene takes place.
In filmmaking and video production, a shot is a series of frames that runs for a uninterreptedperiod of time. Films shots are made are an essential aspect of a movie where angles, transitions and cuts are used to further express emotion, ideas and movements. The order of shots can reveal who motivates the edit eye. Which characters perspective is privileged. For example whom do we start and end with or cut most often in a conversation or scene? Who do we see eye line matches for example screen time. Screen is also part of this – which characters do we see most, or which character do we see the perspective of most.
Continuity editing is cutting all shots to tell a story with narrative continuity. This helps the viewer make sense of the action by implying spatial relationships and ensuring smooth flow from shot to shot. This method of editing also creates realism; edit is invisible so action appears real rather than constructed.
Montage – giving information in compressed form, this may come under non-continuity editing. Non-continuity editing is continuity is broken and construction is more apparent.
However there are other means of transition available to editors such as fade to black, dissolve/cross fade and wipe.
Dissolve or cross fade is the preceding shot merging into the following shot, resulting in the two shots being superimposed. The longer the dissolve the more noticeable the superimposition becomes.
Montage editing. Montage is a technique, which series of short shots are edited into a sequence and these shots usually show different periods of time that reference to the film itself. For example at the beginning of The Hulk movie where they introduced the film with the past of hulk and how he became the hulk. Meaning often created through juxtaposition.
Transitions are the process of cutting from one shot to another usually involves a simple straight cut.
One Shot.
One shot is an edit design for still image recording meaning the characters are moving but the camera is not moving and does not contain any other significant sort of edit such as zoom, camera focus and so forth.
The film camera is a type of photographic camera that takes a rapid sequence of photographs in a strips of film. The first patented film camera was designed in England by Frenchman Louis Le Prince in 1888. It still exists with the National Media Museum in Bradford. Le Prince employed paper bands and celluloid film from John Carbutt and or Blair & Eastman in 1¾-inch width. Thomas Alva Edison created the first motion picture camera patented in the United States. Edison filed a patent on August 24, 1891 for a Kinetographic Camera. Multiple-camera setups may use and synchronized. The films are projected simultaneously, either on a single three-image screen or upon multiple screens forming a complete circle, with gaps between screens through which the projectors illuminate an opposite screen.