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Basics Of Cinematography
The Very First Motion Picture (1889)
Edward
J. Muybridge
(April 9, 1830 – May 8, 1904) was an English photographer,
known primarily for his early use of multiple cameras to
capture motion, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for
projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the celluloid film
strip.
Edward James Muybridge 4/9/1830
A
popularly-debated question of the day was
whether all four of a horse's hooves left the
ground at the same time during a gallop. Leland
Stanford (the Governor of California) sided with
this assertion - called unsupported transit.
He hired Muybridge to settle the question.
In 1878 Muybridge photographed a horse in fast
motion using a series of twenty-four cameras.
Trip-wires attached to each camera's
shutter were triggered by the horse's hooves.
Muybridge
started by photographing landscaped of Yosemite and San
Francisco.
At
the Chicago 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Muybridge
gave a series of lectures on the Science of Animal
Locomotion in the Zoopraxographical Hall - built specially
for that purpose. He used his zoopraxiscope to show his
moving pictures to a paying public. This was the very
first commercial movie theater.
OTHER WORKS
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent
perspiration." - Thomas Alva Edison, Harper's Monthly
(September 1932)
Thomas
Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) invented
the motion picture camera or "Kinetograph". He did the
electromechanical design, while his employee W.K.L. Dickson,
a photographer, worked on the photographic and optical
development. In 1891, Thomas Edison built a Kinetoscope - or
peep-hole viewer. This device was installed in penny arcades
where people could watch short films. The kinetograph and
kinetoscope were both first publicly exhibited May 20, 1891.
He was one
of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass
production and large teamwork to the process of invention,
and created the first industrial research laboratory. Edison
held 1,093 U.S. patents. His inventions include: the
electric light bulb, His first power plant was on Manhattan
Island, New York.
According to WikiPedia the theory of persistence is under
dispute. They give this example of a moving purple dot (a standard illustration of beta movement.
However if you stare at the image long enough the dot
appears to erase itself. This is because the dot produces an
afterimage which is green (the complimentary color of the
original dot). When the green after image combines with the
purple dot a gray dot is produced, this dot is exactly the
same color of the background. Now the existence of after
image is presumed to be evidence for the persistence of
vision hypothesis, but the afterimage actually interferes
with the movement of the dot. Thus the presence of after
image cannot be the cause of the movement.
The myth of persistence of
vision refers to
the mistaken belief that human perception of
motion (brain centered) is the result of
persistence of vision (eye centered). The
myth was debunked in 1912 by Wertheimer[1]
but persists in many citations in many
classic and modern film-theory texts.
A more plausible theory to explain motion
perception (at least on a descriptive level)
are two distinct perceptual illusions: phi phenomenon
and beta movement.
Subjective Viewpoint (p 159) Shot from the perspective
of the character.
Objective Viewpoint Shot from the viewpoint
of an omnipresent viewer.
FOCUS:
DEPTH OF FIELD
Rack or Differential Focus: (p160)
The main object is clear, and the remaining
scene blurs out.
Camera Angles
in Dead Man Walking
CLASSIFICATIONS
ANIMATION
XVIVO Scientific Animation
MUTO a wall-painted
animation by BLU
Luis - Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León and Niles Atallah
WARNING: THIS VIDEO CONTAINS FOUL LANGUAGE!
Narrative /
Fictional - follows a
plot
Pan's Labyrinth
Look for these Shots:
1. Long Shot
2. Medium
Shot
3. Depth of
Field
4. Close up
of painting / pan / close up of her and shoes
5. Unreal
Objective- a nonexistent point of view
6. Dolly or
Tracking Shot
Cinéma
Vérité - French for
"cinema truth"
It's a
documentary style that emphasizes: natural light, hand-held
cameras, realism, and as little director intervention as
possible. Movies like Cloverfield have copied these
techniques to give the movie a sense of realism, but are
considered by many to not be of the genera.
CLOVERFIELD
Documentary
March of the Penguins - 4
Bowling for Columbine
Broken Rainbow
On December 1974 Congress passed Public
Law 93-531 "The Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act". It
authorized the partitioning of the Joint Use Area (JUA) and
established the Navajo-Hopi Indian Relocation Commission (NHIRC)
which moved Navajo people from the reservation lands. The
most traditionally and culturally intact Dineh (Navajo)
people were forced to re-locate to cities.
This 1985 documentary traces the history of both tribes and
the events that led to this devastating land grab by Peabody
Coal and Bechtel Corporations, assisted by our own
government (major players included Barry Goldwater, Morris
Udall, John McCain, and President Ford). The goal: access to
coal and uranium resources.
Avant Garde /
Absolute - no plot,
pure movement
Flying Bag - American Beauty
Contradiction
CINEMA APPRECIATION
SUGGESTED FILMS
Movie Powder presents Harold and Maude
- (entire movie)
My left foot- the story of Christy Brown -
(verisimilitude)
Pleasantville
Memento -
(editing)
Pollock
Amadeus
The Piano
The Pianist
Mankind Is No Island
by Jason van Genderen
