COMM 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Medium Shot, Prosumer, Telephoto Lens
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Style: how a lm unfolds in images and sounds! Refers to the world of experience (kansas v. oz)! A cyclone takes a girl from her farm and goes to a mythical land! A girl dreams of leaving to escape her troubles! Only after she loves does she realize she misses home! A girl who must soon face the adult world yearns for a return to the simple world of ! childhood! Treats implicit and explicit meanings of the lm as manifestations of a wider set of values characteristic of a whole society! 1895 cinematographe, invented by auguste and louis lumiere! Differences between still photographs and motion pictures! a. ) realism (motion of subjects)! b. ) changing perspective (moving camera)! c. ) time ( lm, like music and theater, are time based art forms)! d. ) inclusion of sound (complementarity of sound and image)! 35 mm and 16 mm > still used (celluloid)! The bigger the negative, the richer the detail!