An Introduction to Film

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next eight minutes of The Social Networkdepict his discovery of the Internet’s latent power to enthrall and connect its users. T ...

and in Raging Bull(1980), Jake La Motta (De Niro) fondly remembers his wife, Vickie (Cathy Mori- arty), in slow motion. Both fil ...

Every event implied by the previous description, including every line of code Mark must write, every gathering happening across ...

278 CHAPTER 6CINEMATOGRAPHY solid sense of cause and effect is essential to devel- oping a sequence, the long take permits both ...

when they know in advance that the movie is not in English. Unfortunately, this bias means that many great movies never reach au ...

of love for an actor’s face (one of the prime purposes of the close-up); but on the other hand, the length of the shot gives Kid ...

right—have been made from Shakespeare’s plays, and producers continue to find imaginative ways of bringing other literary classi ...

effects are now made, as you study and analyze SPFX in movies from the past it is helpful to know how the principal types were m ...

story order, which necessarily flows chronologi- cally (as does life), plot order can be manipulated so that events are presente ...

SPFX, transports a computer hacker inside a computer; the Star Wars trilogy, consisting of Star Wars(1977; director: George Luca ...

By contrast, Gaspar Noé’s Irréversible (2002; screenwriter: Noé), which takes place within the span of one day, begins with an a ...

Wachowski’s The Matrix(1999; cinematographer: Bill Pope) used still cameras to photograph actors in flight from all angles and t ...

experience and remember what we have done, and literally requires us to put the pieces of the puzzle together. If you have the t ...

action subject wears a bodysuit fitted with reflec- tive markers that allows a computer to record each movement as digital image ...

modus’s guards—creates subordinate events. Her love surfaces at key moments, troubling and tempt- ing Maximus; but because other ...

284 CHAPTER 6 CINEMATOGRAPHY Analyzing Cinematography This chapter has provided an overview of the major components of cinematog ...

plot duration. We can generally characterize that relationship in one of three ways: (1) in a summary relationship, screen durat ...

Questions for Review What are the differences among a setup, a shot, and a take? A cinematographer depends on two crews of work ...

hypothetical movie; the screen duration of this scene is 10 minutes, but the implied duration of the plot event is 4 hours. In T ...