Media notes by Jacob S. Hernandez https://padlet.com/jacobher7464/z5kfufid3qar Made with whimsy en-us 2017-09-19 14:29:02 UTC 2017-10-26 14:47:29 UTC hello@padlet.com Day 2 9/20 jacobher7464 https://padlet.com/jacobher7464/z5kfufid3qar/wish/189336140 Frame
-Dividing line between the edges of the screen

types of shots
-Cinematic shots are defined by the amount of subject matter within the frame
-Shots can vary in duration
-shots vary in time
Establishing shot
-also known as estreme long shot
-shot taken from a great distance
-Almost always an exterior shot
-Shows much of locale
-Usually a first shot of a new scene
-designed to show the audience where the action is taking place

Long shot
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-Burned his films after the war due to nobody liking it
-A trip to the moon was shown in the movie and was exactly how we saw it
-Was a magician before becoming a filmmaker

Contrasts
Glass house where he filmed wasnt shown online
his family isabelle wasnt seen in the research
his military service that was required before his fimmaking

]]> 2017-10-04 14:40:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jacobher7464/z5kfufid3qar/wish/193890813 10/24 jacobher7464 https://padlet.com/jacobher7464/z5kfufid3qar/wish/200001440 Iconic claim
box office
critical acclaim
watch-ability
10. Frankenstein(uni)
9.All quiet on the western front(uni)
8.It happened one night (Col)
7.StageCoach (united artists)
6.King Kong(1933)
5.snow white and the seven dwarves(1937)
4.Modern times (1936)
3.Mr smith goes to Washington
2.The Wizard of Oz(1939)
1.Gone with the wind (1939)

America went to the movies
  • 1938- 80 million admissions every week
  • 1994- 25 million admissions every week
  • 500 films were produced by studios in 1937
  • Most films shot in 15-30 days
  • Stars were the focus (not camera work or lighting

Production codes
  • Statements in proper moral content of films
  • $25,000 without industrial "seal"


Code Restrictions:
-Avoid brutality
-Avoid Sexual promiscuity
  • Avoid making illegal or immoral life seem possible (gangsters who live good lives)
  • Marriage was sacred- Not sex
  • Prohibited certain words

Codes lased 34 years- Learned that restrictions were what was selling

Scripts: had to be submitted and approved

  • Directors' style suppressed by studios (no creativity)
  • Creative camera shots were uncommon
  • Quick cutting distracted from the dialogue
  • Scenes lit for actors- Not atmosphere
  • Montage only used for special scenes


Process:

Production of a Film:

  1. Director
  2. editors
  3. producer
  4. studio heads
  5. private screenings
  6. Premiere!!!


Big 5 
  1. MGM
  2. Warner Brothers
  3. Paramount
  4. 20th Century Fox
  5. RKO

Hollywood Major Studio #1 of 5
MGM
  • Controlled my Mayer & Thalberg
  • Studio run like dictatorship
  • Known as studio of the stars
  • Highest paying for talent
  • Owned it's own theater chains
1939:The wizard of Oz
Gone with the wind

Paramount #2 of 5
  • Controlled by B. P Schulberg
  • Gave more freedom to writers/ Directors
  • Rep as studio of writers/ Directors
  • $ problems caused loss of stars to other studios
  • Stars: Mae West/ Gary

Warner bros #3 of 5
  • Less $ in production
  • sharp dialogue is the biggie
  • Gangster, bios and musicals
  • comtemp social problems
  • stars: Cagney, bogart, davis
  • Best cartoons: Looney toons 

20th Century fox #4 of 5
  • Excelled in historical and adventure films
  • Commiated to problems of american family life 
  • stars of musical always women with difficult choices
  • Famous for Fox Movietone Newsreels
  • Stars: Betty grable/ janet gaynor, marilyn monroe, and shirley temple

RKO 3 5 of 5
  • Least financially stable
  • most memorable stars
  • smallest of the studios
  • stars: Fred astaire and ginger roger
  • Big movies King Kong/ Citizen kanes

The little Three

#1 Universal studios
  • Ecelled in horror films
  • stars: W.C. Fields/ Abbot-costello/ Bing crosby
  • Woody woodpecker cartoons and the Flash gordon serials.

#2 United Artists
  • Movie artists form studio
  • Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks Sr, Charlie Chaplin, and director D.W. Griffith

#3 Columbia pictures
  • It happened one night
  • lost horizon
  • the jolson story
  • stars: rita hayworth

"Poverty Row"
  • Shabby area/ Low budgets/ Stock footage/ second-tier actors.
  • disney studios
  • monogram pictures
  • selznick






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-The movie studio owned you basically
- six major studios
-operated production line methods
-Also made regluar B pictures
-Organized around Vertical Integration
-Audience can count on one person to make a good movie
-start it maintain it then make sure every film kept that expectation
-" New Hollywood" = 1975 onwards
-Verical integrations are back and universal went all over the world having studios in europe and asia

-high concept films, Film rarely appears as a single entity
  The Hollywood Products
-Holly wood relies on pre existing products Eg. Star wars, happy potter,  beowulf, the golden compass, spiderman.

Distribution practice
-Us Studios pour millions into distribution, particularly marketing
-HW films achive Blanket coverage, block buster.
-Hollywood still operates on a Star System so a list stars can open a movie almost guarantee profit.

Why is hollywood still succesful?
-Big studios cornered the independent market by setting up independent production

]]> 2017-10-25 14:09:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jacobher7464/z5kfufid3qar/wish/200415104 10/26 jacobher7464 https://padlet.com/jacobher7464/z5kfufid3qar/wish/200840347 Basic Film terms
-Frame
  • Dividing line between the edges of the screen image and the enclosing darkness of the theater
  • single photo of flim
-Types of Shots
  • Cinematic shots are defined by the amount of subject matter within the frame
  • Shots can vary in duration
  • subliminal
  • quick
  • average
  • lengthy
-Establishing shot
  • The shot taken from a great distance
  • gives the setting
- long shot
  • to show landscape buildings etc.
-Medium shot
  • A shot shows several people from the waist up.
-Close-Up
  • Shot out of a small object or face that fills the screen
-Extreme close up
  • Close up of just an object or part of the face
  • Usually contains two figures, one with his/hers back
-Angles
  • Angle is determined how the camera is placed
-Bird's Eye view
  • literally looking down on the situation
-High angle
  • camera looks down
-Low angle
  • camera is placed below 


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