FPA 135 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Dallas Buyers Club, Run Lola Run, Dziga Vertov
2 Mar 2016
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Melies previously magician and trick filmmaker; early sci-fi and special effects; very elaborate sets. Oscars for cinematography, visual effects, and art direction. Awards for best costume, nominated for best art direction, director of dallas buyers club, etc. Cinematography; vertical lines (like a prison) the director is famous b/c: montage; disjuctive editing. Uses everyday noises as a soundtrack for the movie. 2014 vancouver, canada documentary about vancouver"s chinatown and it"s slow disappearing. Two story sequences, one in chronological order and one in reverse. Classic narrative film; colour and music usage (melodrama) One of the first films out of studio d (the women"s studio) Use of sound to bring action to life. Won many oscars, including best picture; silent film. Mclaren created the soundtrack of the film by scratching the edge of the film, creating various blobs, lines, and triangles which the projector read as sound. 1956 talks about norman mclaren and how he incorporated sound using different methods in film.
