An Introduction to Film

9 11 10 12 Discontinuity editing in Breathless Consider this panel of the movie’s opening images: [1] man A leaning against a st ...

Brown’s Conquest(1937; a romantic historical epic about Napoleon and Countess Marie Walewska, his Polish mistress, starring Gret ...

362 CHAPTER 8EDITING 1 3 5 2 4 6 The master scene technique These six shots from the opening of John Ford’s The Searchers(1956; ...

American filmmaking during its golden age, con - currently influencing the mode of film production worldwide. The studio system ...

characters and moves to a position 180 degrees opposite its original position, the position of the characters in the image is re ...

ration, and Eagle-Lion Films. Their B movies filled in the bottom half of double bills. The most important independent producers ...

use a reverse-angle shot(one in which the angle of shooting is opposite to that in a preceding shot) or to dolly or zoom out to ...

The actual, physical studios, called “dream fac- tories” by anthropologist Hortense Powdermaker, were complex operations.^15 If ...

MAJOR APPROACHES TO EDITING: CONTINUITY AND DISCONTINUITY 365 Legendary match cut in Lawrence of Arabia Director David Lean and ...

International Pictures. In a very real sense, these central producers and others had made themselves almost superfluous. Second, ...

366 CHAPTER 8EDITING 1 2 3 Graphic match cut in 2001: A Space Odyssey In the opening scene of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Od ...

continues to do with a much different set of studios. The package-unit system, controlled by a producer unaffiliated with a stud ...

MAJOR APPROACHES TO EDITING: CONTINUITY AND DISCONTINUITY 367 looks into her eyes, an eye-line match cut joins a shot of her eye ...

ket for its product. Now, by contrast, an independ- ent producer makes one film at a time, relying on rented facilities and equi ...

Point-of-View Editing Point-of-view editingis the process of editing different shots together in such a way that the resulting s ...

rights amid the movie industry’s conversion to dig- ital production. In addition, because of the uniquely collaborative nature o ...

MAJOR APPROACHES TO EDITING: CONTINUITY AND DISCONTINUITY 369 1 3 5 7 2 4 6 8 ...

not artistic merit, are the basic measure of success in the movie industry, using the word academyto describe the activities of ...

and satisfaction are echoed on the sound track: Van Morrison’s “So Quiet in Here,” which contains the lyric “This must be what p ...

506 CHAPTER 11FILMMAKING TECHNOLOGIES AND PRODUCTION SYSTEMS FIGURE 11.4 Producers’ Credits on Gods and Monsters UNIVERSAL [Titl ...