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What Makes a Film?

Eadweard Muybridge¶s The Horse in Motion

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Workers coming out of the Factory by the Lumière Brothers

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George Meiles¶ A Trip to the Moon

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 Avatar 

Use of CGI (70%) and advanced

stereoscopic techniques

³Performance Capture´ stage 6

times larger than anything usedbefore

Motion capture allows filmmaker 

to move the camera with the click

of a mouse making 3D much

easier but also more like creating

a video game, not a movieCameron developed virtual

monitor so he can see the actors

and the digital backgrounds at the

same time3D explained

What Makes a Film?

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Also developed a filming rig that

consists of a number of 

stereoscopic cameras that each

use a pair of lenses built to mimic

human eyes ± positioned closetogether and able to move a little

in order to focus on objects that

are nearby or far away

Allows the cinematographer to

capture two images

simultaneously, which alignperfectly with and provide the

illusion of depth

5 Steps to  Avatar 

What Makes a Film?

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Telling a Story

Realism vs. Formalism

P lease Give & Scott 

P ilgrim Vs. the World 

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Realism, Classicism, Formalism

Realism in Black Swan

Telling a Story

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Realism, Classicism, Formalism

Formalism in Black Swan

Telling a Story

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Formalism in Gold Diggers of 1933 by Busby

Berkeley and Singing in the Rain

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Formalism in

Rhythmus 21

by Hans Richter 

Telling a Story

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Classicism - Mr. Smith Goes To Washington

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or  Dinner for Scmucks, Avatar, Machete,

Gladiator, North By Northwest, Ironman,

etc«

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Realism Classicism Formalism

Avant-GardeDocumentary Fiction

Salesman

Battle of Algiers

Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Avatar 

The Seventh Seal 

Rhythmus 21

Telling a Story

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Salesman

Telling a Story

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The Battle of Algiers

Telling a Story

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I am Cuba

Telling a Story

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Man Ray¶s Le Retour à la Raison

Hans Richter¶s Rhythmus 21

Rhythmus 21

Le Retour à la Raison

Banksy's The P unking of P aris Hilton

Telling a Story

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Telling a Story

³One way of understanding better what a film is trying to

say is to know how it is saying it.´

 André Bazin

Form and Content

Pure Form

 Abstraction, Style

& Formal Beauty

Content

Reality, Subject Matter,

Simplicity

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The Seventh Seal 

Telling a Story

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Cyrus

Telling a Story

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Visions of Light, 1992

Who¶s Who in the field

discuss the art and craft of 

cinematography

Telling a Story