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1920-1927
What are the dates of the late silent period?
100
A cinematography guideline that states that two characters in a scene should maintain the same left/right relationship to one another . When the camera passes over the invisible axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line and the shot becomes what is called a reverse angle
What is the 180 degree rule?
100
Mass production lines, making a constant flow of films in the classical way.
What is standardisation in filmmaking?
100
Modern Times
What was Chaplin's first film after five years of hibernation in the 1930s?
200
1927
What is the date of when sound arrived in cinema?
200
A term used by European writers watching Hollywood films to highlight their adherence to a certain form and style dominated by a particular narrative organisation and by rules of composition that produced unity, balance and order in the resulting artwork’.
What is classical cinema?
200
The observance of rules of composition and aesthetic organisation that produce unity, balance and order in the resulting artwork. ‘Classical works conform. They are bound by rules that set strict limits on innovation’
Classical Hollywood cinema style is what?
200
He produced, starred, authored, composed (special music) and directed this film.
What was Chaplin's contribution to Modern Times?
300
Formal techniques
What were developed with the aim of representing emotionally engaging, character led narratives in easy to follow visual terms...
300
refers to the ways in which mise en scene, narrative, editing, cinematography work together to create a plausible 3D filmic world... ...which transports the spectator through the space and time of that world in as seamless a way as possible and in ways which are easy to make sense of.
What is the institutional mode of representation?
300
Characters are defined by actions only and that is why it is difficult for us to watch it and be interested : because the characterisation is so basic we don’t see the people in the frame as developed individuals with traits.
How were characters represented in early film?
300
Classical Hollywood film and narrative
What is today's lesson on?
400
The continuity editing system
What system of editing was developed in the late silent era?
400
A time in film when techniques such as include frontal staging or a tableau style, exaggerated gestures, limited camera movement and no point of view shots. Early cinema was also silent and unsophisticated, more like melodramatic mime.
What is the primitive mode of representation?
400
individual characters motives are instead represented and foregrounded in a meaningful way; for example the story only focuses on a few central characters stories
How are characters represented in classical Hollywood cinema?
400
The Silent Cinema Reader by Grieveson and Kramer
What is the reading you were asked to do?
500
...to make the film reality as much like the audience's reality as possible. Film is trying to recreate what the world around us is and trying to make it easier on the audience to comprehend and understand the action happening on screen.
What is continuity editing?
500
A specific style of filmmaking and storytelling, one of the ways that Hollywood could standardise it’s films in order to maximise their ‘recognisability’ and their profitability.
What is the classical mode of representation?
500
The focus is on ‘goal orientated characters who set in motion a series of causally linked events in which they confront and overcome, or less are overcome by , counter-forces to the achievement of their goals. In either case the ending closes the issue definitively by resolving all tensions between the characters and their surroundings that were set at the beginning
What is the focus when it comes to characters in classical Hollywood cinema?
500
Studio bosses
Who had the final say when a film was finished in the classical Hollywood era/ studio era?
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