Lecture Notes Flashcards
The Kiss, Serpentine Dance, Shadow
Kinetoscope films (no narrative)
Tensions between consumerist values and democratic values
Consumerist: 1. Individualism 2. You deserve the best, more is better 3. Aspiration is a moral good 4. We are all consumers Democratic: 1. Social responsibility 2. Justice, equality, caring about common good 3. Critical thinking is a moral good 4. We are all citizens
Tableaux films
Single shot and static camera
The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
Trick edit
A shot of the entire scene, a long shot that can include all of the charters.
Establishing shot
Starts with establishing shot, and then cuts to a close up of a person, and then a reverse close up of another character.
Shot/reverse shot sequence
Close ups on the faces which makes it a given where they are in the scene.
Eye-line matching
Mise-en-scen
“Things put on the stage” anything that the film director puts under the camera - props, scene location, actors, etc.
Diagetic vs. Nondiagetic
Diagetic: refers to those sound elements that the characters in the movie would logically hear.
Nondiagetic: refers to those sound elements that the characters can’t hear but we can.
Cinematography
- Camera distance/framing (long shot, medium, close up, extreme close up)
- Movement (pan left or right, zoom in or out, focus pull)
Editing (cut, wipe, dissolve, superimposition)
- pacing
- type of edit (cuts, wipes, cross fade/superimposition)
A movies
The big budget movies, the ones spent a lot of money and the biggest stars and directors.
B movies
Low budget, and were important for the studios because they were the training ground for the talent.
Platform distribution
- Developed when studios could only get money through ticket sales
- Have a long slow roll out of the movie. First be released for a limited time in zone 1. Then pulled, then rereleased in zone 2. Pulled for a period and then rereleased in zone 3. At every zone they would drop the price.
- they tapped into people of different incomes
- word of mouth advertising
The red scare
- Hollywood Ten
1. It was bad publicity for Hollywood
2. The witch-hunts hurt the creativity of production, the quality of movies declined because writers and directors were nervous because everyone was watching them.
The rise of art house theaters
- Independent theaters were able to reinvent themselves by becoming an art house theater.
- If they were in the right market and had the right taste culture, they could start to import foreign movies.
Artificial scarcity
Makes us believe we cannot wait, we have to have the product the night it’s available.
Practice when separate independent companies merge together under the same umbrella.
Conglomeration
Horizontal integration
Where one company may have their “fingers” involved in the different parts of producing or distributing. Integrated across different media sectors.
4 factors driving the move to transnational
- Capitalism
- End of Cold War
- Re-regulation
- New technologies
American culture is forced on the rest of the world, which creates a bland culture.
Homogenization/global unification
