WGST T280 Lecture 1: Film Basics

• School: Drexel University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST T280
• Professor: Jacqueline N. Sadashige

Document Summary

Distance from subject (ex: close-ups, medium shots, long shots, camera angle (ex: low-angle, eye-level, high-angle shots, content (ex: establishing, one-shot, and two-shot, camera movement (ex: crane, tracking, dolly, zoom, hand-held) Cinematography: writing in/with motion (similar to photography, literally writing in/with light ) The shot: basic unit of lm (piece of lm between two edits), characterized by: Multiple shots are sutured / edited together to create a sequence of shots. Includes the arrangement of everything that appears in the shot: Frame and camerawork also constitute the mise-en-sc ne of a movie. Primarily the responsibility (or the creation) of the director. Referred to as a scene (taken from theater language) A portion of the lm in which all action occurs in the same place, in the same time span. Through the intentions of characters who struggle against obstacles towards a de ned goal. Style of lm from the silent era (1920s) through the early 1960s.