An Introduction to Film

The Seashell and the Clergyman(1928). Germaine Dulac, director. Seminary Girls(1897). Thomas A. Edison, director. Sense and Sens ...

Yuen Woo-ping, 469 Yuh, Jennifer, Kung Fu Panda 2, 85 Z Zanuck, Darryl F., 500 Zatorsky, Ernest, 298, 390 Zavattini, Cesare, 455 ...

CHAPTER ELEVEN Filmmaking Technologies and Production Systems 300 (2006) . Zack Snyder, director. ...

484 CHAPTER 11FILMMAKING TECHNOLOGIES AND PRODUCTION SYSTEMS In fact, however, that equation is simple: movie - making is, above ...

forward through the years by teamwork. From the moment the raw film stock is purchased through its exposure, processing, editing ...

movies is felt around the globe. Today, however, it confronts another major issue—the question of an all-out conversion from fil ...

FILM, VIDEO, AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES: AN OVERVIEW 487 The motion-picture camera moves unexposed film from one storage area, cal ...

being made, the financing available to support the project, and the overall visual look that the film- maker wants to achieve. F ...

passes through the lens onto the surface of the film); the resolution(the capacity of the camera lens, film stock, and processin ...

film cameras, stock, and processing and printing technologies. This can only mean that the race to determine which technology wi ...

conversion and lowering its costs. In March 2009, the AMC theater chain announced an agreement with Sony to provide digital movi ...

medium, proceeds through three basic phases: pre- production, production, and postproduction. Preproduction The first stage, pre ...

took to complete the film, he spent more than twice his original budget. In making a film, meticulous preparation is everything, ...

exterior location or a crowded city street, camera and lighting setups, and the extent of movement by the camera and the actors. ...

In your study of movies, keep in mind that the art of the movies has been influenced not only by changes in technology and cinem ...

Organization after 1931 In 1931, the film industry adopted the producer-unit system, an organizational structure that typically ...

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

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

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

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