Quiz 12 Flashcards
she said
- 2 journalist who investigated Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault allegations
- Jodi Kantor + Megan Twohy
- directed by maria schrader
- challenges of compressing the story of book to film + smaller budget films in hollywood
what makes hysteria compelling material
- themes of hysteria, suspense, mystery, crisis
- community drama
- complex central question
pre-production
- film directors
- script
- storyboarding
- historical research/design
- production design
- location scouting
- casting
- costume design/makeup artist
film director
- conceive the visual style
- make sure that style is executed faithfully across the film/show
- facilitate collaboration w crew/cast
historical research and shot design the Northman (2022)
production designer (scrip breakdown too)
- the witch and the lighthouse
- clothing, boats, hairstyles studied
- the necklace –> silver coin
- most historically accurate viking movie ever made
- long ships were scaled accurately
- brezerker warriors/ship –> wood build, nails, shallow depth
production design
poor things (2023) Shona Heath + james price
- academy award
- miniatures/painted backdrops
- symbolize bella’s experience/perception bursting into victorian society
parasite by Lee Ha-jun
- kim’s semi-basement –> no privacy, dingy
- parks fantastical home built for film –> lines, stairs (motif of class division), natural lighting
Location scouting
director + production designer
The Holdovers
- 1970s vibe –> finding extras with long hair
- cars from the correct period
- lived in sense of place
- school auditorium
- snowy new England winters
- brattle bookshop location
casting
effort to improve diversity –> The Personal History of David Copperfield (Armando Tanucci)
- casting director + director
- color blind casting
- Shonda Rhymes casting non-white actors in regency period (Bridgerton)
color blind casting
making an effort to cast role without regard to race
whitewashing
taking a non-white character and casting white actors
- scarlett johanson plays asian role –> get it bc of marketability (shes well known)
costume deisgn
- director + production designer + costume designer + makeup artist
little women
- slight differences amoungst the march sisters
barbie
- inspired by existing outfits from barbie
- roller skating = hot skatin Barbie
- died pink denim for cowboy outfit
the miniaturist
- painting = research —-> costumes for ranges of wealth
- squirrel fur, puritism, ostere
camera + lighting
director + cinematographer + director of photography (DP)
- responsible for visual style
dp supervises
- the camera crew (operators/assistants)
- the electric department
- grip department (mechanical riggings)
Tim Palmer
- cinematographer/BU professor
- Killing eve, Bad Sisters, Last Kingdom
- location drove visual style of Place
berlin night club - dark, grimy, dirty
british countryside - softer, warps, fantasy
london - urban, fast moving, trains
poor things cinematography
cinematographer = robbie ryan
- practical lights
- sky lights
- lighting and props - 3 point lighting
rocking chair, digestive machine, china
- wide angle lenses
- 4 mm lense –> cameo effect at films end
- LED lighting –> bella on the cruiseship shifting into adulthood
practical lights
lights that are literally working in the scene visible to us that help light the set
- lamps on walls and tables
- light within the frame
3-point lighting
3 different sources of light to pull the figure out of the blur of the background
1 key, direct light
2 softer lights from the side or back
wide angle lenses
create a distorted, warped view…bending reality
Verneer Lighting in the Miniaturist
DUTCH
ethereal lighting falling on her face from unknown source –> used to light characters in the show the miniaturist
Visual effects
- deaging VFX software designed from scratch to reduce blemishes in the Irishman (De Niro)
- criticised for distracting blurriness in the software (uncanny)
editing
director + editor
- which shots to use
- order (macro/micro level)
- tighten film, emphasize themes
- transitions: hard/soft cut…linger
reen mangubat on editing a documentary
- assistant editor at Florentine Films (Ken Burns founded)
- 2-year project on Leonardo Da Vinci
- Being able to manipulate and change things to encompass a story
docu
- split screens
- talking head interviews
- build a portrait of this idea of a perfect man…mathematical perfection
sound
director + sound recordist + crew
- ADR looping
- Walla
- Foley
- Atmospheric sounds
adr looping
automated dialogue replacement –> numbing/dumbing of an actors voice in post production studio to add impact or stress
- better or muddied audio quality
- Hugh Jackman for Wolverine (grunts/heavy breathing)
foley
idea of creating sound effects by using something else to mimic the sound you are trying to make (mechanical elements)
ex: footsteps w different textures, door slamming, swords, dishes clashing
walla
idea of creating an indistinct clamor (usually voices) to create the sense of a crowd murmuring
atmospheric sounds
things added in by the sound editor to fit the setting
- traffic in a city setting
Last of Us
- beeping of virus checker
- cocking gun
- latter rattling
- background birds
Brandon Kramer
- docu filmmaker
- City of Trees + The First Step
- Not issue or data-based –> explore nuanced emotional experiences
- building trust to bear witnest at highest and lowest moments
- responsibility to be ethical and truthful
- condensing so many moments to be meaningful
