Class 6 Notes

• D.W Griffith and Edwin Porter were two important people in the early day of cinema because they started to discover editing techniques.
• The classical Hollywood form was known as CHF or CHM, and was comprised of an establishing shot, a master shot, a two shot (medium short) and a close up.
• The juxtaposition of two shots put one after the other to create cause and effect is called the Kuleshov effect. his also creates something called “the third thing,” or terium quid, which is how you feel after see the two shots (ex: A shot of young actors sitting, eating, drinking merrily, and running lines together, followed by a shot of children in Uganda. The tertium quid the shame or disgust that viewers will feel this
• Off Line Editing: Rough cut of the movie (Picture lock) [More women do it]
• On Line Editing: Fixing sound, color, not empty frames, etc. and they make about 20% more money [More men do it]

Mise-Eu-Scene Resubmission

Mise-Eu-Scene Resubmission

There are a lot of music videos now days that just don’t have any means or emotions anymore. It’s hard to find a music video that really makes they viewers step back and just say to yourself “wow”. One music video that really got to me and impressed me a lot was “그리고 남겨진 것들” (“The Day Before”) by Nell. The mise-eu-scene in the music video is amazing. Everything from the lighting to the secondary motion; it was all simple perfect.

A quick summery of the music video is it’s about a friend/lover trying to come to terms with a friend’s suicide. Throughout the video you wonder if they were just friends or were they more than that. Then you wonder why he killed himself, was it because society wouldn’t accept them, or something else.

The lighting plays a big part in the video. It is such a dark/sad storyline and yet the lighting makes it feel nice and peaceful. There is a lot of gray in the music video to give it that cold feeling; the feeling of unhappiness and loneliness. It brings more emotions to the viewers. All the colors in the music video have this grey tint to it which makes the atmosphere more depressing.

The primary motion was very well done. It was just two people sitting in front of each other and yet that was more than enough. The actors really did an amazing job in the music video; from the little smiles they do to the way they look in each other’s eyes. They both really sold the characters and did a fantastic job.

The use of secondary motion in the video is exquisite; from the panel of the room to the panel of the food and dead flowers. It brings out the ambience. Even the zoom on the lips as they are both talking to one another, the video is truly a piece of art with a lot of symbolism.

The tertiary motion was well put together as well. The editing was so “soft” (if the makes any sense). There isn’t any fast motion cut scenes in it. It just cuts from scene to scene in a nice calming way that goes great with the music.

The last thing that really helped the mise-eu-scene was the costumes. It wasn’t anything to fancy or out there. It just such casual clothes and fit well in the video. It also helps that even the clothes were dark colors like black and grey. They did wear anything bright that popped out which was great because it didn’t distract the views from the video.

Overall, all these little details put into the music video really made the mise-eu-scene. It was all put together perfect and fit the meaning of the song excellent.

Music Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6AzbOupbxk

Class 5 Notes

Mise-Eu-Scene

Mise-eu-scene is:

• Decor (properties)
• Lighting (D.O.P)
• Costumes
• Blocking
• Camera Position Angles (ex: high angle, low angle, etc.)
• Primary Motion [Real Life] (ex: people walking by/in front of the camera, etc.), used for coverage
• Secondary Motion [Camera Motion] (ex: pans, tilt, zoom, dolly, reveal, etc.)
• Tertiary Motion [Editing] (ex: match cut, graphic match, cross cutting, etc.)

Mise-En-Scene From Avatar (2009)

Mise-en-scene is all about setting the scene. That is what it basically means. If a movie has a great scene/scenes to it like an amazing background, great lighting, etc. the movie will look and feel phenomenal. One movie that does all this amazingly is the movie Avatar (2009) by James Cameron. Everything was simply beautiful; from the extremely creative plants and backgrounds, to the smart uses of lighting. Some of the best scenes took place at night. All the little details made the scenes seem so perfect and realistic. From the way they would sway the plants back and forth as the wind blew by or as people would walk by them. The way James used the lighting at night was brilliant. The lights would only come from the plants/stars in the night sky or from the plants and yet is always seemed like the perfect amount of light. Just the fact that he made everything pitch back but those things really made them pop out even more and really set the mood for the scenes. The actors even did a great job at playing their roles and made the scenes seem believable. The use of sound even played a big part in the movie too. An example of this are the scenes are in the jungle. All you hear are these crazy animal sounds; it really creeps up on you and makes you feel uneasy. A lot of details were spent on this movies and since they did spend a lot of time on it, it made the scenes that much greater and emotion. James did a wonderful job setting the scene in this movie.

Class 3 Notes

– 1895: The Lumiere Brothers (not Hollywood)
– Thomas Edison cuts with something
– 24 frames per seconds = film
– 96 frames per second is a decent time for a title screen
– The Great Train Robbery was made in1903
– 1929 films started to have sound
– 1930 the film industry started a become more the an assembly line (about 52 movies a year from the film studios)

Golden Aria Of Hollywood (1930 – 1938)
-Vertical Integration: production companies films everything from the top: to down. Owns everything and distributes anything the way they want. They also controlled the actors too (now days the actors have way more freedom)
– The Auteur
– The golden aria ended because of divorcement, TV and rise of suburbs (too far from the movie theaters)

 – Now days it’s more Horizontal Integration: Product placement so they can get money as well as advertising and marketing
– Polygran: was the name of a major record company in Europe’s version of Hollywood

Film Production

We have many classic movies now days that everyone knows about. The Jurassic Park saga is part of the classics. The movies are known by everyone but how were the films produced? Well, the first Jurassic Park (1993) was produced by Universal Pictures (it was the big production companies involved in the movie). It wasn’t just Universal Pictures who played a part though, Amblin Entertainment also helped produce it too. The estimate budge from the first Jurassic Park movie was about $63,000,000! On the opening weekend in the UK they made £32,723,932 (about $51,466,564) and the gross was £45,528,284 ($71,604,608). This was only in the UK though. Let’s talk even more money. In the USA they made $50,159,460 on the opening weekend and got $350,523,625 in gross! Universal Studios (Universal Pictures at the time) put a lot of money into the movie and helped make it what it is today. Universal Studios was founded on April 30, 1912, so they had a lot of experience in the movie industry and are now one of the top leading movie companies out there! They are now located in Japan, Singapore, and other places as well. Their revenue in 2011 was $4.239 billion! Overall, if it wasn’t for the Studios none of these big blockbusters would be here today because they wouldn’t have any money to make it.