Story of Film – Episode 1 – Birth of Cinema

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“cinema seats” by mark lorch is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

Notes:

Introduction

The shaking camera and water shots create a feel of the audience being there, struggling through the water.

Too fast paced, not classical

Nice slow shots, giving the audience a pleasant break from the movie.  Also, use of squares in a nearly square frame.

Uses bubbles to reflect the characters stressors

Borrows from the above

Borrows from both the above

1895-1918: The World Discovers a New Art Form or Birth of the Cinema

Something people could relate to

Scared the audience, might think it’s laughable today, but if you’ve ever tried VR, you duck when something is thrown at you.

Astounded viewers, unimaginable to most people, unfortunately almost solely worked on in France without other countries.

The effects were as if the character was moving directly through the cosmos itself, undoubtedly amazing the audience with it’s unbeforeseen visions.

First close up shot, showing a kitten being fed medicine.  It would be copied all over.

Sense of movement given by a woman’s hand slipping off the bridge.

Close up shot shows the revelation of finding out who the murderer he was searching for his whole life.

First use of wide screen cinema

1903-1918: The Thrill Becomes Story or The Hollywood Dream

First true cuts, showing many different angles.

Used double exposure for effects, portrayed himself in many other movies using it.

Parallel editing

Very famous actor, europe had less censorship

Introduced the concept of costumes more

Multiple lighting sources, director himself played the devil.

Multilayered film, with cuts, blue light, and stories

Filmed in Australia, first feature film.

Highlighted the importance of the 180 degree line, which you must always keep to the same side of.

STAR WARS!!! YEAH BOIII

Good use of the directional shots, which show the connection between characters and place.

One of the first arc films, directed by a woman director, one of the first directors overall.

Chase scene using a car mirror, with a three way display of the intruder, the wife, and the husband

Short film using wind and sand to uncover a body

Introduced the moving trees.

Racist as all hell (bad)

Beautiful cinematography (good)

Led to rebirth of the Klan (bad)

  • Rebirth of a Nation (2007) dir. DJ Spooky

skribbled on the racist stuff

Impressed Griffith with it’s moving dolly shots and the scal

3 hour film about the struggle of love, used edits to compare

Intertwining storylines

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