Monday, July 8, 2013

Intro to Film: Week 5

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



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