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What Makes a Film?
Eadweard Muybridge¶s The Horse in Motion
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Workers coming out of the Factory by the Lumière Brothers
What Makes a Film?
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George Meiles¶ A Trip to the Moon
What Makes a Film?
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Avatar
Use of CGI (70%) and advanced
stereoscopic techniques
³Performance Capture´ stage 6
times larger than anything usedbefore
Motion capture allows filmmaker
to move the camera with the click
of a mouse making 3D much
easier but also more like creating
a video game, not a movieCameron developed virtual
monitor so he can see the actors
and the digital backgrounds at the
same time3D explained
What Makes a Film?
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Also developed a filming rig that
consists of a number of
stereoscopic cameras that each
use a pair of lenses built to mimic
human eyes ± positioned closetogether and able to move a little
in order to focus on objects that
are nearby or far away
Allows the cinematographer to
capture two images
simultaneously, which alignperfectly with and provide the
illusion of depth
5 Steps to Avatar
What Makes a Film?
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Telling a Story
Realism vs. Formalism
P lease Give & Scott
P ilgrim Vs. the World
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Realism, Classicism, Formalism
Realism in Black Swan
Telling a Story
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Realism, Classicism, Formalism
Formalism in Black Swan
Telling a Story
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Formalism in Gold Diggers of 1933 by Busby
Berkeley and Singing in the Rain
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Formalism in
Rhythmus 21
by Hans Richter
Telling a Story
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Classicism - Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
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or Dinner for Scmucks, Avatar, Machete,
Gladiator, North By Northwest, Ironman,
etc«
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Realism Classicism Formalism
Avant-GardeDocumentary Fiction
Salesman
Battle of Algiers
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Avatar
The Seventh Seal
Rhythmus 21
Telling a Story
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Salesman
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The Battle of Algiers
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I am Cuba
Telling a Story
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Man Ray¶s Le Retour à la Raison
Hans Richter¶s Rhythmus 21
Rhythmus 21
Le Retour à la Raison
Banksy's The P unking of P aris Hilton
Telling a Story
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Telling a Story
³One way of understanding better what a film is trying to
say is to know how it is saying it.´
André Bazin
Form and Content
Pure Form
Abstraction, Style
& Formal Beauty
Content
Reality, Subject Matter,
Simplicity
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The Seventh Seal
Telling a Story
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Cyrus
Telling a Story