Film Style and Technology: History and AnalysisDo you ever look at old movies and wonder how they were shot back then compared to how they're shot now? This book will take you on a decade-by-decade journey on how film technology and techniques developed through cleverness, insight and occasional desperation by the people who made them. |
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INTRODUCTION Page | 1 |
OLD FILM THEORY NEW FILM THEORY | 5 |
THE INTERPRETATION OF FILMS | 22 |
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action actors American films angle arc floodlights Arriflex Average Shot Length backlighting BCU CU MCU Bell and Howell black and white camera movement cameramen cinema CinemaScope Citizen Kane closer shots colour continued D.W. Griffith decade depth of field direction directors dissolves effect emulsion European films example Expressionist exterior feature films film-makers focal length focus front Hollywood interior scenes jump cut large number later lens diffusion lenses lighting units Long Shot long takes mask Max Ophuls MCU MS MLS Méliès microphones MLS LS VLS montage sequences moving Moviola negative number of films number of shots optical ordinary panning particularly Pathé period photography position possible produced projector recording reverse-angle cuts Scale of Shot screen seen shooting Shot distribution silent films sound films sound track speed spotlights stage standard studio style stylistic synchronous Technicolor tracking shots usual Vitagraph wide-angle lens zoom