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Journey of an Film: A Odyssey.
1.) Buster Keaton was a American comedian and director who directed many breakthrough films during the silent era, Charlie Chaplain was a actor who made many successful films during the silent era, he was a method actor who used his theatrical experience to communicate with the audience. Harold Lloyd was one of the first big stars that was recognized in the Hollywood industry
2.) Keaton: The General (1926)
Chaplain: The Great Dictator (1940)
Lloyd: Safety Last (1923)
3)Toto and Jac Tati
The Story of Film: An Odyssey Questions
Birth of Cinema:
1.) Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895)
2.) Films that have the camera moving forwards by strapping them to a vehicle.
3.) The use of editing in the film without something showing that there was a change in shot.
4.) Florence Laurence
The Hollywood Dream:
1.) D. W. Griffith
2.) The Danish film industry
3.) Christianson , Haxan. Urban Gad, The Abyss.
Portfolio Outline
Breathless Task
Strike Task.
The use of editing in Strike (1925, Sergei Eisenstein) was heavily used in order to tell the tale of the factory workers and it used Soviet Techniques like Montage heavily in it.
One of the main themes from the film, comes as the form of a clear social divide. The workers are seen as worlds away from the bourgeois, perhaps representing the widening gap between the classes at the time. Audiences would relate to this, regardless of their class because this idea was actually happening within the society at the time of the tsarists regime, which was with living memory of the majority of people A parallel montage is used to show a happy scene of the proletariat eating. This shows how the proletariat work together and a bond which works well particularly with the proletariat at the time of the film’s release. Although they did not have much money, they had love which is shown by their clear happiness.
Next, we are shown a similar scene where the bourgeois also eat breakfast. However, they are shown without family to represent their selfish greed leading to a lonely life of isolation. This shows of how greed is evil and that it corrupts people, leaving them by themselves, isolated. This montage is significant because it shows a clear divide, this is more important for the audience at the time because their emotional investment in the film would increase because they are understanding and first-hand experiencing this social divide.
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Task
Mise-En-Scene is an aspect of ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’ (1920, Wiene). Due to this being a silent film Wiene had to tell the story of Francis and Caligari through various other narrative devices like, mise-en-scene.
Firstly, it is important to understand that The Cabinet of Dr Caligari was not produced by a mainstream company, therefore it had limited resources. And because of this, not a lot of money could be spent on artificial lighting, so paint was used to indicate lighting and shadows. This is one of the most innovative techniques in my opinion and was a great contribution to the overall verisimilitude of the film. Although the film did not have color, verisimilitude could still be created effectively due to these innovative techniques.
The cinematography in the film is innovative because it was able to make the film visually interesting without using color and the cinematography helps to build the verisimilitude and makes the film seem believable. The cinematography in this film can be regarded as innovative because it helps to reinforce the theme of insanity and it communicates this to the audience in a tasteful and subtle manner so when they discover that the narrator is actually insane.
Sound Mixer/Sound Editor
The difference between a Sound Mixer and a Sound Editor is that a Sound Editor brings various different elements of sound individually, for example a score mixer would bring together the score, and a Sound Mixer brings all the various elements together
Whiplash Task
The Kuleshov Effect
The Kuleshov Effect is a technique used in film that was started by Soviet filmmaker Lev Kuleshov in the 1910’s and 1920’s and essentially what it means is that the relationship between two shots can relay more emotions and feelings to a reader then two isolated shots. The most common example used in this the man with the bowl of soup, a child in a grave and a woman lying on a couch. The man is carrying a neutral expression that on it’s own wouldn’t tell the audience anything but when it is put with the other shots the audience infers various feelings and tones depending on the shot, for example when the man was paired with the soup it looked like he was hungry.