GERM 1171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Color Theory, Establishing Shot, Birds Eye
9-13-17 German Film week 3
Photography
• Shot: determined by the amount of subject, smallest unit, film is based on
• Types of shots:
• Extreme long/ establishing
• Long
• Medium
• Full
• Short
• Extreme short
Angles
• How do you determine the camera angle?
• Where the camera is placed
• Which angles
• Bird’s eye
• Oblique
• low/high
• Eye level
• Wide
• What do these angles mean?
• High: weakness, innocent, inferior
• Eye level: equal
• Low angle: powerful
• Oblique: disoriented, imbalanced
Color
• Invented in 40’s-50’s
• Light colors: innocent, joy, purity, comedy, happy, hope
• Dark colors: evil, darkness, grim, fear, unhappy
• High key: Comedy
• High contrast: tragedy
• Low key: thrillers, mystery
• Cool colors: blue, green and purple represents tranquility, serenity
• Warm colors: red, orange, yellow represents anger, fear, passion
• Backlighting: angelic, heavenly, spiritual
Editing
• Picks and chooses which shot to use
• Convey message
• Confines message
• Condenses length
• Preserves fluidity
• Eliminates unnecessary time
• Selecting from many hours of footage
• Compressing years of plot time
• Cutting to continuity
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Document Summary
Photography: shot: determined by the amount of subject, smallest unit, film is based on, types of shots, extreme long/ establishing, long, medium, full, short, extreme short. Classic cutting: d. w. griffith, follow principle of association of ideas implicit in the connected shots, creating psychological connections, editing for dramatic intensity and emotional emphasis, allows director to control audience"s perception/ emotional reaction. Iris-in, iris-out: cut, jump cut, fade-in, fade-out. Hitler"s influence still very limited in 1920"s: populist platform: anti-semitism, racist, nationalist, anti-socialist, anti-communist, anti-democracy. Integrated sa into nazi party: 1934: hindenburg died hitler takes chancellor and president calls himself fuhrer and chancellor, 1934: requires armed forces oath of allegiance to him (personally, 1934: nsdap party rally in nuremberg. Role of film in nazi germany: propaganda, distract population, glorify nazi, nationalist support. Measures of nazi film policy: nationalization of film industry, reported directly to nazi, censorship, awards to promote nazi.
