COMM 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Futures Exchange, Upton Sinclair, Frank Norris
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To us, mr. grif th was the movie industry, it had been born in his head - lillian gish. Wanted to make lmed like as natural as real life, yet follow conventional narrative structures. Grif th is credited with developing the basic grammar and rhetoric of cinema. He tested new ways of using the camera and broke away from theatrical conventions. Realized the content of the shot should determine the camera"s relationship to it. Used: medium shot, close shot, close-up, extreme close-up, long shot, extreme long shot, pan, traveling(tracking) shots. Cut between these types of shots through montage (editing) Different shots, or combinations of shots have different emotional or ideational impact. Standard structures for creating tension (usually episodic) Allegorical stock characters representing different attributes (virtue, purity, greed, honor, avarice, sloth) Morality is protected and order is restored. Based on frank norris novel, the octopus and short story a deal in wheat.
