Lecture Notes - 15th SEPTEMBER

Cinematography
- Visual aspects of a film's language.
- Camera movements can give a clear indication of emotions and give audience clues as to what's happening.

Types of shots
- Long Shot (LS)
- Extreme Long Shot (ELS)
- Full Shot (FS)
- Medium Shot (MS)
- Close Up (CU)
- Extreme Close Up (ECU)
- Insert Shot (IS)- Relevant object, not people
- Point Of View (POV)

Movement
- Pan
- Tilt
- Steady Cam
- Rack Focus
- Dolly
- Crane
- Arial
- Hand Held
- Over The Shoulder
- Dolly Counter Zoom

Angles
- Birds Eye
- Low Angle
- High Angle
- Dutch Angle
- Eye-level
- POV

Rear Window, Hitchcock 1954 (opening scene)
- Master of mis-en-scene - Everything is planned and has a purpose - no accidents in terms of the visual
- People making breakfast/milkman/man shaving/ people waking up - early morning
- Photographer for a magazine - main protagonist likes to capture things such as car crashes/rockets setting off etc.
- Heat wave - Insert of the thermometer/man sweating
- POV watching neighbours getting ready /morning routine
- Brown earthy tones within the room and main protagonist's clothes - he has become part of the apartment he lives in because of his broken leg

Atonement
- War - on the beach waiting to be rescued
- One long continuous shot and multiple frames
- Feel as though you are there with the soldiers experiencing what they are experiencing
- Soldiers have been defeated at war
- Exploring the scene with the characters

Transitions/Edits
- Cut - instant transition
- Fade in/out
- Dissolves
- Wipe
Aspects of editing
- Relationship between shot a & shot B
- 4 editing relations
* Temporal - Montage/Flashbacks/flash forwards - match cut - show passage of time within a film
* Spatial - 180 degree line? Shot Reverse Shot? Identification/Parallel editing
* Rhythmic - Editing is related to the pace of action etc. fight scene - quicker editing
* Graphic - Object matches between cuts/ Graphic match in shots

Kuleshov Effect
- Effect of juxtaposition
- Discovered that depending on what follows after shot 1, will change what the audience feel for the specific character etc.

Ellipses
- The shortening of the plot duration of a film achieved by deliberately omitting intervals or sections of the narrative
- Marked by an editing transition - period/gap of time from a film's narrative

Context - When it was made, where it was received, on individuals bias or experience
- social/political/censorship/artistic conventions/ financial constraints/ technology
- Knowing the conditions behind a film's making