GERM 1171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Costume Design, F. W. Murnau, Count Orlok
8-30-17 German Film: Week 1
Making and Marketing A Film
• What is needed to make and market a film
• Budget
• Audience
• Context
• Theme
• Length of film
• Advertising
• actors
Film Is?
• Motion picture, visual art form
• A visual story
• A medium of communication
• Technical enterprise
• Financial enterprise
Film Genres
• Documentary
• mystery/ thriller
• Comedy
• Animation
• Horror
• Action
• Romance
• Drama
Why do we make Films?
• Entertainment
• money/ profits
• propaganda/ spread a story or idea
Artistic skills required to make films
• Animation
• Musical score
• scenery/ set design
• Costume design
• Editing
• choreography
Technical skills required to make a film
• Sound creation
• camera/ photography
• Editing
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Document Summary
Making and marketing a film: what is needed to make and market a film, budget, audience, context, theme, advertising actors. Film is: motion picture, visual art form, a visual story, a medium of communication, technical enterprise. Film genres: documentary, mystery/ thriller, comedy, animation, horror, action, romance, drama. Why do we make films: entertainment, money/ profits, propaganda/ spread a story or idea. Artistic skills required to make films scenery/ set design: animation, musical score, costume design, editing choreography. Special effects: black and white to color, animation, tv, vhs, 3d. Film analyst: we want to see how (form means) the film produces meaning (context) at a specific historical juncture (context) Attempts to preserve illusion that the displayed film world is unmanipulated: formalism: manipulates/ distorts raw material. Poetry (no story) music: classic horror genre, based o(cid:374) b(cid:396)a(cid:373) toke(cid:396)"s d(cid:396)a(cid:272)ula (cid:894)1(cid:1012)(cid:1013)(cid:1011)(cid:895, director: dir friedrich wilhelm murnau ( 1888-1931) : dark mania, evil, fear, terror: themes: life v. death.
