Hey I realize this is coming late. I haven't had internet all week. Anyhow, I see that some people have responded to last week's blog topic and that's fine and actually fits in well with this weeks topic.
Hope you guys have a super awesome-tastic winter break. Thanks for a great semester. See some (most) of you on Tuesday.
Discussion Topic
Choose a discussion topic from the blogs posted over the semester and respond to it. It can be any one as long as it's a topic you haven't responded to previously.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Friday, November 16, 2007
The Conversation Blog A-F
You're not crazy. It's the same topic as last week.
Discussion Topic:
Sound Design obviously plays a large role in "The Conversation". In the opening sequence we see the couple walking through the courtyard, talking, while the "team", tries to record what they say.How is the sound in this scene changed around? What effect does the sound design in this scene have on the audience, and how does the sound designer use sound in this scene to effect the story?
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
The Conversation - Blog Q-Z
Discussion Topic
Sound Design obviously plays a large role in "The Conversation". In the opening sequence we see the couple walking through the courtyard, talking, while the "team", tries to record what they say.
How is the sound in this scene changed around? What effect does the sound design in this scene have on the audience, and how does the sound designer use sound in this scene to effect the story?
General Notes
Just to reiterate:
No Class on 11/20
Class on 11/27 is only for people who are writing final papers.
HOWEVER: YOUR BLOGS ARE STILL DUE.
CHECK THE BLOG FOR THE DISCUSSION TOPIC DURING YOUR WEEK.
No Class on 11/20
Class on 11/27 is only for people who are writing final papers.
HOWEVER: YOUR BLOGS ARE STILL DUE.
CHECK THE BLOG FOR THE DISCUSSION TOPIC DURING YOUR WEEK.
Quiz 3 Notes
EDITING
Cinema Survey FIL1000 - Fall ‘07
Points for Today…
Editing Process
– Early
– Modern - Film
– Modern - Digital
Editing Process: 1900- Early 1990’s
• Film is shot
• Film is processed
Editing Process: 1900- Early 1990’s cont’d….
• WORKPRINT Created
• Workprint Cut
• Original Negative Cut
Editing Process: 1990’s - Present - Film
• Film is shot
• Film is processed
• Film is TELECINED (tele-sin-eed)
Editing Process: 1990’s - Present - Film
• Video is captured on computer
• Editing done on computer
• Original Negative cut to template generated by computer.
Editing Process: 1990’s to Present - Video
• Video is shot
• Video is captured on computer
• Editing done on computer
• Sometimes higher quality video is cut to template generated by computer.
Montage
• MONTAGE comes form the French for “putting together” or “assembly”.
• MONTAGE simply means putting pieces of film together or film editing.
Montage cont’d…
In the early days of filmmaking, the Soviets defined MONTAGE (meaning the way individual shots were placed in sequence) as the essence of the cinema…
Lev Kuleshov
• Lev Kuleshov said that editing a film was like constructing a building.
• Brick-by-brick (shot-by-shot) the building (film) is erected.
Kuleshov Effect
Kuleshov Effect cont’d…
• The viewers were taking the question presented by the shot of the actor (what is he looking at?), seeing the answer presented by the shot of the objects (Food. Woman.) and creating a new meaning.
D.W. Griffith
• One of the first to use “cross-cutting” to show parallel action.
Montage - Hollywood Style
• A series of shots, often played over music, that tell the story and compress the passage of time.
EDITING II
Cinema Survey - FIL 1000 - Fall ‘07
Points For Today…
• Conventions of Editing
– Continuity
– Discontinuity
Continuity Editing
Seamless, real-life style. The audience should not be aware of the editing as an obvious process.
What happens on screen makes as much sense as possible to the audience.
Continuity Editing cont’d…
• lighting remains consistent from shot to shot
• time and space are continuous from shot to shot
• rhythm varies according to the kinds of shots
• screen direction remains consistent
Discontinuity Editing
• Most common in avant-garde and experimental films, but also found in commercial works like Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarentino), in which the plot is laid out in a discontinuous fashion for a particular effect.
• Strives to be showy, NOT seamless
Discontinuity Editing cont’d…
• Edits can sometimes be very abrupt
• Encourages viewers to notice and consider cinematic technique
• DOESN’T convey a plausible, continuous world – rearranges narrative to create new meanings
Parallel Editing
• Scenes coinciding, indicating that things are happening at the same time.
• Pioneered by D.W. Griffith in 1915 in the film “Birth of a Nation”
Production Design
Cinema Survey - FIL1000 - Fall ‘07
Production Design
Overall design Visual look
Composition Continuity
Production Designer
• Art director
• Set designer
• Draftsperson
• Set Decorator
• Construction
coordinator
• Propmaster
Production Designer cont’d…
• The Production Designer works for the director supervising numerous departments that affect the look of the movie.
Production Design Tools
• Color palette
• Graphics
• Previsualization
• Set Design
• Costumes
• Set dressing
• Props
• Locations
Tools cont’d
• This includes talking to the camera department (which is under the direct supervision of the DP) about film stock, lighting and lenses.
SOUND
Cinema Survey - FIL 1000 - Fall ‘07
POINTS FOR TODAY…
• History of Film Sound
• Elements of Sound
– Dialogue
– Sound FX
– Music
Silent Film Era
• Live narration, Pipe Organs, Sound effects
Kinetophone
• Thomas Edison's Kinetophone, pictured here in 1913, attempted to synchronize sound with film.
• The synchronization was achieved by connecting the projector with the phonograph with a pulley system.
History of Film Sound cont’d…
• The first movie with dialogue, or "talkie", was The Jazz Singer.
• Originally conceived as a singing picture with no dialogue, Al Jolson ad-libbed some dialogue on the set and the talkies were born.
History of Film Sound cont’d…
• Later in 1928, Disney's Steamboat Willie premiered.
• It was the first film to completely create a soundtrack in post production including sound effects, music, and dialogue.
History of Film Sound cont’d…
• In 1933, the King Kong was released by RKO and made film sound history. Murray Spivak, who did the sound design for the movie, was the first person to manipulate sound in a creative way.
History of Film Sound cont’d
• Spivak used the sound of a lion's roar slowed down one octave mixed with the sound at unity (original) pitch.
History of Film Sound cont’d…
• In 1977, Star Wars, revolutionized film sound with Ben Burtt’s award winning sound effects.
Elements of Sound
• Dialogue
• Sound effects
• Music
Dialogue
• Externalizes the character’s thoughts and feelings
• Avoid dialogue that repeats what the image already tells us
Music
• Establish historical context
• Define character
• Set emotion of a scene
Sound FX
• Define a scene’s location
• Lend a mood
Ben Burtt
Ben Burtt:
“The basic thing in all films is to create something that sounds believable to everyone, because it's composed of familiar things that you can not quite recognize immediately"
Imperial Walkers & Tie Fighters
• The sound of the Imperial Walkers were created by modifying the sound of a machinist's punch press. Added to this for complexity, were the sounds of bicycle chains being dropped on concrete.
• The screech of a TIE Fighter is a drastically altered elephant bellow.
Cinema Survey FIL1000 - Fall ‘07
Points for Today…
Editing Process
– Early
– Modern - Film
– Modern - Digital
Editing Process: 1900- Early 1990’s
• Film is shot
• Film is processed
Editing Process: 1900- Early 1990’s cont’d….
• WORKPRINT Created
• Workprint Cut
• Original Negative Cut
Editing Process: 1990’s - Present - Film
• Film is shot
• Film is processed
• Film is TELECINED (tele-sin-eed)
Editing Process: 1990’s - Present - Film
• Video is captured on computer
• Editing done on computer
• Original Negative cut to template generated by computer.
Editing Process: 1990’s to Present - Video
• Video is shot
• Video is captured on computer
• Editing done on computer
• Sometimes higher quality video is cut to template generated by computer.
Montage
• MONTAGE comes form the French for “putting together” or “assembly”.
• MONTAGE simply means putting pieces of film together or film editing.
Montage cont’d…
In the early days of filmmaking, the Soviets defined MONTAGE (meaning the way individual shots were placed in sequence) as the essence of the cinema…
Lev Kuleshov
• Lev Kuleshov said that editing a film was like constructing a building.
• Brick-by-brick (shot-by-shot) the building (film) is erected.
Kuleshov Effect
Kuleshov Effect cont’d…
• The viewers were taking the question presented by the shot of the actor (what is he looking at?), seeing the answer presented by the shot of the objects (Food. Woman.) and creating a new meaning.
D.W. Griffith
• One of the first to use “cross-cutting” to show parallel action.
Montage - Hollywood Style
• A series of shots, often played over music, that tell the story and compress the passage of time.
EDITING II
Cinema Survey - FIL 1000 - Fall ‘07
Points For Today…
• Conventions of Editing
– Continuity
– Discontinuity
Continuity Editing
Seamless, real-life style. The audience should not be aware of the editing as an obvious process.
What happens on screen makes as much sense as possible to the audience.
Continuity Editing cont’d…
• lighting remains consistent from shot to shot
• time and space are continuous from shot to shot
• rhythm varies according to the kinds of shots
• screen direction remains consistent
Discontinuity Editing
• Most common in avant-garde and experimental films, but also found in commercial works like Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarentino), in which the plot is laid out in a discontinuous fashion for a particular effect.
• Strives to be showy, NOT seamless
Discontinuity Editing cont’d…
• Edits can sometimes be very abrupt
• Encourages viewers to notice and consider cinematic technique
• DOESN’T convey a plausible, continuous world – rearranges narrative to create new meanings
Parallel Editing
• Scenes coinciding, indicating that things are happening at the same time.
• Pioneered by D.W. Griffith in 1915 in the film “Birth of a Nation”
Production Design
Cinema Survey - FIL1000 - Fall ‘07
Production Design
Overall design Visual look
Composition Continuity
Production Designer
• Art director
• Set designer
• Draftsperson
• Set Decorator
• Construction
coordinator
• Propmaster
Production Designer cont’d…
• The Production Designer works for the director supervising numerous departments that affect the look of the movie.
Production Design Tools
• Color palette
• Graphics
• Previsualization
• Set Design
• Costumes
• Set dressing
• Props
• Locations
Tools cont’d
• This includes talking to the camera department (which is under the direct supervision of the DP) about film stock, lighting and lenses.
SOUND
Cinema Survey - FIL 1000 - Fall ‘07
POINTS FOR TODAY…
• History of Film Sound
• Elements of Sound
– Dialogue
– Sound FX
– Music
Silent Film Era
• Live narration, Pipe Organs, Sound effects
Kinetophone
• Thomas Edison's Kinetophone, pictured here in 1913, attempted to synchronize sound with film.
• The synchronization was achieved by connecting the projector with the phonograph with a pulley system.
History of Film Sound cont’d…
• The first movie with dialogue, or "talkie", was The Jazz Singer.
• Originally conceived as a singing picture with no dialogue, Al Jolson ad-libbed some dialogue on the set and the talkies were born.
History of Film Sound cont’d…
• Later in 1928, Disney's Steamboat Willie premiered.
• It was the first film to completely create a soundtrack in post production including sound effects, music, and dialogue.
History of Film Sound cont’d…
• In 1933, the King Kong was released by RKO and made film sound history. Murray Spivak, who did the sound design for the movie, was the first person to manipulate sound in a creative way.
History of Film Sound cont’d
• Spivak used the sound of a lion's roar slowed down one octave mixed with the sound at unity (original) pitch.
History of Film Sound cont’d…
• In 1977, Star Wars, revolutionized film sound with Ben Burtt’s award winning sound effects.
Elements of Sound
• Dialogue
• Sound effects
• Music
Dialogue
• Externalizes the character’s thoughts and feelings
• Avoid dialogue that repeats what the image already tells us
Music
• Establish historical context
• Define character
• Set emotion of a scene
Sound FX
• Define a scene’s location
• Lend a mood
Ben Burtt
Ben Burtt:
“The basic thing in all films is to create something that sounds believable to everyone, because it's composed of familiar things that you can not quite recognize immediately"
Imperial Walkers & Tie Fighters
• The sound of the Imperial Walkers were created by modifying the sound of a machinist's punch press. Added to this for complexity, were the sounds of bicycle chains being dropped on concrete.
• The screech of a TIE Fighter is a drastically altered elephant bellow.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Punch Drunk Love Blog G-P
Here are a few screen-caps from the film:
Opening Shot:
"The Couple":
Also just cause it's funny, here's the fake "Mattress Man" Commercial that was made for the movie and included on the special features of the DVD:
Discussion Topic:
In class we discussed how color, wardrobe, and other elements of production design can be used to give information about a character or a scene to the audience.
In the above pictures (Keeping in mind that the first picture is the opening shot of the film where we are introduced to Barry for the first time.) what do the colors of their wardrobe say about the characters in relation to (in the first picture) their character traits, and (in the second 2 pictures) each other?
Thursday, October 25, 2007
The Cutting Edge - Blog A-F
Fake Trailers
The following 4 clips are fake trailers that really bored people have cut, which have the effect of altering the original plots of the films to resemble something new.
Discussion Topic
Discuss what role editing can have in determining the plot and story of a film. For instance, if you've seen Pulp Fiction, how would that film be different if it was told in a linear fashion? Likewise, how would Run Lola Run be different if it was edited at a slow pace? How would the mood of the film change?
The following 4 clips are fake trailers that really bored people have cut, which have the effect of altering the original plots of the films to resemble something new.
Discussion Topic
Discuss what role editing can have in determining the plot and story of a film. For instance, if you've seen Pulp Fiction, how would that film be different if it was told in a linear fashion? Likewise, how would Run Lola Run be different if it was edited at a slow pace? How would the mood of the film change?
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