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Film Studies Notes

The document discusses key concepts related to filmmaking and cinema. It covers various stages of film production from pre-production to editing. It defines important cinematography techniques like shots, angles, focus, and camera movements. It also explains different types of edits and transitional devices that are used to manipulate the passage of time in a film. Overall, the document provides an overview of artistic and technical aspects involved in cinema as an art form versus its associations with popular culture.

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Film Studies Notes

The document discusses key concepts related to filmmaking and cinema. It covers various stages of film production from pre-production to editing. It defines important cinematography techniques like shots, angles, focus, and camera movements. It also explains different types of edits and transitional devices that are used to manipulate the passage of time in a film. Overall, the document provides an overview of artistic and technical aspects involved in cinema as an art form versus its associations with popular culture.

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11th January 2021

Movie= associated with popular culture

 Conditions under which you are producing a film than


talking about the artistic things
 Social conditions of production and consumption than to
do with the artistic aspects – movie
 The French word cinema actually comes from the german
word kine? Meaning move
 Cinema refers to aspects of art as against the popular
culture notions
 Cinema- way in which it is looked at as an art form
 Film- individual exam. Use the term film when you are
taking about film (individual examples) ,
 Film- used to refer to film strip, now the word film goes
beyond that
 Cinema- also used to refer to as theatre.
 Cinema- larger composite body where individual example
as film
 Cia- different movements? Individual/group/ no word
count/ groups of 5/6
 Pre production- script writing, story boarding
 Standard three point lighting- key light, back light, fill
light
 blocking
 Mise-en-scene- setting or arrangement which helps to
understand a scene
 Framing-
 Mise en shot? – cinematography/recording aspect
 Establishing shot- establishes where the action
unfolds(place or something)
 Cinematography- camera in movement. The basic element,
the smallest indivisible element of cinematography is
called as – shot. It is a functional aspect
 A shot is made up of so many frames
 Shot- single run of the camera(start, camera, action)
 Every shot will have a point of view which tells you about
the perspective the film maker tries to communicate
 The distance at which the camera is placed from the
character helps you understand what all should be
included/excluded
 Long shot, close up shot
 Basic camera shots-Extreme wide shot, wide shot, medium
shot, medium close up, close up, extreme close up
 Most preferred shot is medium shot.- it covers from head to
the torso, 2 people having a conversation- mostly medium
shot/medium close up
 Birds eye view- aerial shot
 High angle shot- camera is placed above. Looks down upon
the subject, (powerlessness/inferiority of the subject
 Low angle shot- camera placed below, signify superiority,
dominance. Placed below the subject
 Deep Focus- foreground and background are equally visible
 Shallow focus- foreground is clear, background is blurred,
it can be vice versa as well
 Rack focus- when focus keeps on shifting
 Over the shoulder shot
 Shot-reverse-shot or shot alternative shot
 Panning- moves horizontally (lens moving) need not move
the entire camera
 Tilting- vertically up and down around a fixed axis
(camera does not move)
 Zoom- lens adjusted in zooming in and out. Camera
without moving
 Tracking shots- the entire camera moves ex: chase sequence
 Crane shots- moves up and down but camera also moves
 Editing- Selection and arrangement of shots
 Cut-separates one shot from the other. Also decides the
duration/length of the shot
 2 kinds of editing- continuity editing- action moves
continuously in a chronological order/invisible editing-
anybody who watches the film feels that it’s not been
edited at all/seamless editing-smooth flow of events
 Willing suspension of disbelief-
 Editing also shows time relations- ex, characters aging
fastly
 Running time – duration of the film
 Film time- time captured in the film (time periods within
the film)
 Editing- normally follow 180 degree rule-
 Another type of editing, visible editing?- breaks
continuity?
 Jump cut-
 Transitional devices- used to show passage of time
 Wipe( one kind of transitional devices) - wiping out an
image from the screen
 Form cut- one kind of transitional devices
 Dissolve- one image dissolves into another, one kind of
transitional devices
 Iris- one kind of transitional devices, key hole kind of
image, becomes bigger and bigger or smaller and smaller
 Fade- one kind of transitional devices, fades into a black
screen
 Montage- film trailers are an example of montage

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