Intro to Film Week 5
Preclass: Need Steenbeck website,
picture, Final Cut Pro picture, Serenity,
Kuleshov video
- Discuss Million Dollar Baby particularly in terms of cinematography
- Start talking about final project
- Proposal and Rubric due July 22nd
- Final Project due August 5th
- Gallery stroll due at the same time
- Possibility of visitors
- Criteria for project
- Needs to be treated as a capstone worth 30% of final grade
- Needs to reflect how your understanding of film as a whole has changed throughout the semester
- Holistic – really should be an assignment that you do for yourself
- Developing a rubric
- MUST have following items (at least 10% each)
- Quality of work
- Quantity of work
- Adherence to form
- Demonstration of understanding
- (Default rubric is 25% each)
- Rubric will be used to grade project
- Will be graded by me during final class period
- Need to know any performance needs (video, audio, etc)
- Questions / Discussion
- Editing Lecture
- What is editing?
- Physical film – editing table
- Digital editing
- Final Cut Pro (screenshot)
- Relationship between Shot, Scene, Sequence
- Good place for set procedure (shot)
- Picture is up / Quiet on the set
- Camera ready?
- Ready
- Sound ready?
- Ready
- Roll Sound
- Speed
- Roll Camera
- Speed
- Marker (or slate)
- 2ac reads and claps
- (dir only) Action
- (dir only) Cut
- Clip from Serenity, Talk about Russian Ark
- Kinds of transitions
- Cuts
- Jump
- Parallel movement
- Match
- Fade
- Dissolve
- Wipe
- Purposes of editing
- Editing for Continuity
- Same people in the same place
- 180-rule
- Editing for Meaning
- Kuleshov effect
- Connecting ideas and people together through similar positioning
- Match cut, parallel movement cut
- Editing for deception
- LOTR: sizes of characters
- Watch for all 3 types of editing in this film.
- Break
- The Social Network
