An Introduction to Film

Juno thinking about fingernails and changing her mind.The form used to express that subject and meaning includes decor, patterns ...

By the 1960s, the title production designer, which we shall use, began to replace the title art director.^5 This shift in title ...

subject matter as, and thus no more “real” than, the other two sculptures. Giacometti’s version, because of its exaggerated form ...

Many art directors have become directors. Mitchell Leisen, for example, who began his career designing films for Cecil B. DeMill ...

somehow about defining an ideal; Giacometti’s seems to reach for something that lies beneath the surface of human life and the h ...

designer: Scott). The “Hellboy” creatures—which resemble images from science fiction, Japanese anime, and horror movies—originat ...

our sense that certain events produce likely actions or outcomes. We’ve learned to expect that most movies start with a “normal” ...

going down that hole. Screenwriters often organize a film’s narrative structure around the viewer’s desire to learn the answers ...

constructed for a film were made in Italy; and with Giovanni Pastrone’s epic Cabiria(1914; no credits for art director or costum ...

Joseph Stefano), for example, Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) believes that the $40,000 she steals from her employer will help her st ...

On the screen, these parts will appear, in proper proportions to one another, as whole units. Light- ing helps sustain this illu ...

harmonious fusion of indigenous people and their natural environment: fish glide past the camera; a smiling Pocahontas runs her ...

surfaces, settings, or landscapes. Both on a set and on location, light is controlled and manipulated to achieve expressive effe ...

44 CHAPTER 2PRINCIPLES OF FILM FORM 1 3 5 2 4 6 Patterns and suspenseFilmmakers can use patterns to catch us unawares. In The Si ...

river kept by Rachel Cooper (Lillian Gish), a kind of fairy godmother devoted to taking in homeless children. When Harry tracks ...

PATTERNS 45 1 3 5 2 4 6 7 Breaking patterns for dramatic effectThe six consecutive underwater shots that open Terrence Malick’s ...

familiar, or acquaint us with the unfamiliar; repeat- ing them emphasizes their content. Shot patterns can convey character stat ...

important is the work of the art departments’ pro- fessional staff to render the actors’ appearance appropriate to the role. For ...

apprehension or suspense in such film noirs as Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity (1944). In fact, lighting often conveys these thi ...

costumes more closely and interpret them on the basis of our experiences. The same can be said of makeup and hair design. Althou ...