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2. 3. The idea

All film begins to be an idea.

The ideas are born by the author.

The film idea and the theme is the same.

4. The plot

It is the ideas development.

The person who writes it is calledwriter.

The plot is the same as action.

We usually can distinguish three parts:

• • The actions approach.

• • The knot or development.

• • The ending.

A work with a resolved end is called .

A work without a resolved end is called .

5. 6. The rhythm

It is the dynamic impression given by the length of the shots, the dramatic intensity and the effects.

Long shots create a slow rhythm.

Short shots create a quick rhythm.

7. Kinds

Analytical: short sots and very numerous.

Synthetics: long shots and few in number.

In crescendo: shots increasingly shorter and increasingly longer.

8. The time

The time film is different to real time.

Forms of time film:

• • Suitability.

• • Condensation.

• • Relaxation.

• • Continuity.

• • Concurrency.

• • Flash back.

• • Psychological time.

• • Ellipsis.

• • Resources to represent the past.

• • Resources to represent the passage of time.

9. 10. The camera

It is a machine with we obtain a series of photographs on film.

The camera has two reels:

• • The reel feeder.

• • The reel recorded.

There is a lens which is called zoom.

The most important thing is the objective, a lens trough the light enters in the camera.

11. The angles

It is called at the way that the camera is placed.

The camera can catch the figures:

• • In a normal way.

• • Sharply.

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• • Sight of worm.

• • Sight of bird.

12. The movement

The author writes with the film camera.

It moves in all directions of the stage or space.

Subjective usedwhen the camera becomes a character in the action film and we can see what it sees.

The camera rests on a tripod and it can do:

• • Balancing.

• • Pitch or tilt.

• • Rotation or look around.

• • Travelling.

13. 14. Classes

The shot is obtained by photographing from a certain distance one or more figures.

Classes of shots:

• • The very first close-up, insert or detail.

• • The first level.

• • The median.

• • The short general shot.

• • The long general shot.

• • The great general map.

15. 16. The colours

It is not an essential element of the images.

It does not say anything.

It speaks for itself.

On some occasions they are used symbolically, but these symbols are not universal.

17. 18. Light and kinds

The light in film serves to express things clearly and to create the right climate.

It gives life to objects.

Kinds of light:

• • Natural.

• • Artificial.

• • Diffuse.

• • Direct.

19. Effects

Light comes from above.

Light comes from below.

Light comes from front.

Light comes from side.

Rear lighting.

20. 21. The sound

The sound element in film is composed by: Words, Sounds and Music.

OFF voice is the voice of a character we hear and its outside the shot by telling the story.

They are taken from the microphone.

Silence is also an expressive sound.

22. 23. How to make it

It is a tape that was made of celluloid and now is made of a material seems that one but this doesnt ignite.

The organized phrases or shots as a whole make a film.

The procedure through which is organized the parts of a film or narrative units is called assembly.

The meaning of the film depends on the assembly.

24. Kinds of transition

Cast (in black or white): the scene goes dark or lights quickly.

Chained: slowly the image disappears.

Wipe: looks like a moving image that comes to the other.

Scanning: the camera moves quickly.

Court: two different images are connected.

25. The develop

The film to print is called blank film; its ready to receive the images.

First we obtain the negative film where the whites of the image appear blacks and the blacks, whites.

Then it is passed to a positive film and when its developed gives a positive image like we see reality.

26. The soundtrack

It can be obtained:

• Optically: photographing sound on celluloid.

• Magnetically: a refined magnetic phonetic tape that it is stuck in film.

27. The projector

It is a machine which shows the film.

It has got two reels:

• A feed one which provides the film to the projector.

• A receiver one which gathers the film once projected.

It also has a mechanism that transforms photographed sound in real noises.

28. 29. Traditional tricks

Appearances and quick disappearances of characters.

Appearances and quick disappearances transparent characters.

Invisible persons.

Transparency.

Models.

Rain and storms.

Explosions and bullet holes.

Landslides.

Slow & Quick motion.

Photographic tricks.