Week 3 Flashcards
Tracking shot and pan
Mobile frame
Process shot
Alter image in post production
A take is.
Shot, no breaks
Transitions
Cut, fade, dissolve, wipe!
Wipes can take
Different shapes
Continuity editing.
Putting togehtor, narrative continuity
Order time space, place.
Temporal and special and logic.
Cutting and trimming and putting togethor,
Time
Unfolding present, flashback cues
Lash back
Harp, whole tone scale, unstAble. Change place.
Time passing
Montage, discontinuity too.
Review terms from sheet!
Did it?
Establishing shot
General space.
Cut in
Get closer, continuity
Shot, reverse shot
Juxtaposed.
Turing between different spaces
Same time,different place
Continuity editing super imp. To study!
Got me down pat?
Eyeliner match related to
Point of view and cut
Relationship, shot 1 and two
Match on action
Going and then coming out of door.
Von trap mansion. Austria and Los Angeles mansion.
Reestablosh ing shot
Do exist
Sound
Diegetic stylized. Fairy tale.
Simultaneous, timeframe of story. Future past compared to images. Sound flashback. Voice over also non simultaneous.
Not like synchronous which is like lips matching.
Voice over, non diegetic,
Process shot
Superimpose falling onto ground in model.
Note zoom in and move back, vertigo sensation.
Sound bridge
Lag, match, advance
Transition between scenes. Through sounds
Studio system
1920-1950
Film production impacted institutional structure
MGM, metro Goodwin Meyer, merge. Larger corp.
more control. Of exposition.
1920-1950.
Strong financial stability. Control
Make, distribute and own theaters and ticket sales. One entity.
New York bank institutions owned them.
Studio system turned out
Dreams (factory)
Studio system hierarchy
One part is music, many superiors.
Departments, including music.
Under contract!
1930-50
Stylistic designation, “classical era”, of the film system.
30 because of sound, stylistic and technological shook things up.
Fewer bugs, and
Big stars
PhysicLly all there consolidated
Big studios 5
MGM richt, prestigious (lion) Fox 20th century tune and stone logo Wb shield warner brothers Paramount (mountain) RKO Radio keith orpheon merger horror
Also
Columbia : b-pictures cheap
Universal : globe logo, horror Frankenstein.
Exist but different entity but financial or distribution today
MGM
Middle class, respectable
Save for big prestige production,s glamour stars! Stable of stars
Bought lowes theaters
Warner brothers
Working class audience,
Gritty
Gangster, less sentimalized cleN
Study p. 84 of Cooke book imp.
Models
Gorman principles
Meaning of hierarchical structure in film studios for music people
Cannot do what you want to do, individual subsumed by house style, eg. French horns for French. Ignorance.
Extreme time constraints
Preference for fast reliable worker, over presitige, unusual or creative styles
Collaborate with musicians
Financial considerations dictate genre style etc.
effective vs artful. Orchestrator composer distinct
Mixing and chopping of music in editing. :(
Considerations for writing underscore (refer to gorbamn principles.
See notes!
Max Steiner
Solid worker studio contract employee, had power though.
Shows that music low on totem pole, drama often put above.
Immigrant from Vienna.
East to west migration, initial arranger on Broadway
Head of RKO for 6 years, 100 films! 20-35
Wb work thereafter, wrote fanfare.
Over lifetime 300 film scores. Wow.
Famous ones gone with the wind and case blanca
Can tell written fast. Quotations used,
Prolific. Hand off to orchestrator, wait for stills. To match up music.
1993 film
Non diagetic ok, audience will get it.
King Kong, first complete background score. Abundant music, not just selective.
Steiner, for gold, Newman.
Big red, prolific power pioneers of purpose of music, in film.
King Kong
Operatic, illustrated,
ROMANTIC
Primitivsm, Micky mousing, jungly,
Then, broafway, demonstrating versatility. *** if story called for it
Impressionism, foggy boat scene.
Wozzeck sounding, brontosaurS.
MusicL form change in thought for movie
Independant, now after narratives mold to narrative. Oes not stand on its own. Discontinuity factor. Underscore.
Thought of as a supplement.
Main title has to
Be succinct, main ideas, match genre, showy. Own expectation and functions.
Cues, musical decisions to be made in production process
Where music is placed, Spotting session used *** The start, discontinuity considerate, transitions. "Stinger" loud musical event. Connections form across film, unity,
When does music start
Island gets music, why. Fog impressionist
Symbol of fantasy, mood setting scared, new place.
Structure, mood, symbolic, function of music
Think about stock convention and ambiguous meanings, like clarinet motive.
Aboriginal music might be called.
Source scoring. And underscoring
In between (non) diegetic. Also called enhanced diegetic.
Love scene
Cut music for interruption clear musical conventions are not ironed out.
Sacrifice, four note, scene.
Motivic transformations.
Kong has more than one motive. Kong on prowl. And in broadway tune!
