FILM TV 122D Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Surrealism, Psychoanalysis, Incandescent Light Bulb
2 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Week 2
• Frame
o 24 frames/s
• Shot
o Basic building blocks of film
o Flash screens
o From camera on to camera off
• Clip
o Now shots are called as clips
• Take
o Multiples of a shot
o 2 takes for safety
• Scene
o Defined by time and location
o Slug line: exterior-day-classroom
• Sequence
o Sequence of shots in a scene
o Sequences of scenes put together
• Film invented: 1895
o Everything happen in one shot
o Lumiere/ Milies People put shots together, but No interplays between shots
o Edwin S Porter
• 1903: first motion picture edited: Life of an American Fireman
▪ Parallel action/editing: things going on at the same time in different
places
▪ Close-up of a hand putting on the fire alarm
▪ Newsreel footage of fire carriages to enhance story
▪ Two versions: the first version didn't cut between exterior and
interior, re cut from 9 to 20 shots (pacing)
• The Great Train Robbery
▪ Juxtaposition of two shots make new meanings
▪ A shot doesn't contain the entire action anymore
▪ Hand-coloring of film
▪ No varying shot sizes
o D.W. Griffith
• Birth of a Nation
▪ 1915
▪ Civil war, racist film
• Intolerance
▪ 4 historical periods edited together
▪ Transitional: woman rocking a cradle
▪ Grand set of Babylon
▪ Matching action, continuing one movement into the next
▪ Wide--medium--close-up as scene moves forward
• Broken Blossom
▪ 1919
▪ Subjective camera placement: camera is put where the character
would be, audience see through characters' POV
▪ Emotional close-ups
▪ Parallel action
find more resources at oneclass.com
find more resources at oneclass.com
