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Pilar Beasley January 12. 2004 European Cinema Minutes
We began class today handing out note cards, which decided what days students would have to take the minutes.
We the discussed how films produce meaning and Dr. Reimer went into detail on most of the points in the outline below. The definitions can also be found in Giannetti, our text for the semester.
Film Elements Editing Camera Angles Camera Distance
Film/Theatre Elements Movement Mise-en-scène (placement within the screen space) Lighting Sound Dialog Character proxemics
Editing- the joining of one shot (strip of film) with another. The shots can picture events and object in different places at different times. Sometimes referred to as montage (French for Editing)
1) Editing affects experience at time Real time (the actually time that it would take for the event to take place) Subjective Time (Stretching of speeding up time to reflect psychological involvement in the event)) Phenomenological Time (The nature of time itself, flashbacks, forwards etc) Narrated Time (The time elapsed from beginning to end of story)
2) Editing affects experience of place Shrink distance Quick change of locals Create visual screen space create artifical spatial relationship 3) Editing affects thoughts Relates objects that are unrelated Produces emotional response Creates synthesis Talked about Movie Elephant, about the Columbine shootings. The director uses editing at times to create relationships where none might have existed.
Typology of Editing Continuity editing- seamless flow of events, usually helped by music and soundtrack Structural editing- ignores continuity and groups objects by what they look like or what they do, in common. Juxtaposition.
*****Ex. Chien Andalou: Bunuel created relationships between unrelated objects.*****
Parellel- cross cutting. The alternating of shots from two sequences often in different locales suggesting that they are taking place at the same time. (Comes form Melodramatic theater)
Psychological Editing- Juxtaposing shots to create particular emotional or intellectual response in the viewer. Ex. Show Iraq and then show President Bush swing at golf course in Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11
Elements of Editing Take- "single uninterrupted and unedited run of the camera photographing an uninterrupted and continuous action. Shot- "the selected and editing take as used in the film." The shot varies from a fraction of a second to the length of a real 35mm.
Typology of shot Establishing shot- usually an extreme long or long shot at the beginning of a scene which provides the viewer with the context of subsequent shots.
Insert shot-medium shot or close up that is inserted into a particular segment of a continuous action in order to accentuate by emphasizing something with the action or mise-en-scene. Shot/ Reverse Shot- shot of two characters speaking and reacting to each other
Over the shoulder-preserves communal sense of the two person shot by filming so that one person head and shoulder frames the other face.
Shot/reaction- shows character looking at something and then shows what he or she is looking at
Transaction b/w shots
Jump Cut- abrupt transaction b/w shots sometimes deliberate, which is disorientation in terms of continuity of time and space
Cross Cut/ Cut Away- Change to another space or action
Match Cut- Maintains temporal flow of action
Types of Transition Dissolve Fade Iris Fade
Type of Transitions
Wipe: Pushing one image off the screen and replacing it with another by moving a line across the screen Racking/Focus-Blur one shot refocus to another
Sound to connect image- * Sound of Effects * Dialogue * Music These elements may bleed from one scene to the next
Watch clips from Kieslowski’s Blue-a French Flim by a Polish director
* Film is about a woman who loses Husband & Can't Cope
Clip showed end of film after woman has come to terms with the loss. Editing and music used to show she has overcome the tragedy.
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