Monday, October 19, 2015

Grades due this FRIDAY


Remember if you have something that you need to do for me (Test, Quiz, Project) the information to study is below. Now some class info may NOT be listed but you can google or ask your teammate for notes:

8 Core group of the production team: Producers
Director
Unit Production Manager

Production Accountant Production Supervisor Production Coordinator First Assistant Director Second Assistant Director
Six phases of filmmaking? Development
Pre Production Production

Post Production Distribution Exhibition
History of film begins in 1890s Vaudeville programs.
Single scene.

1897 George Melies built first studio out of glass. It was modeled after large still photography studios and it had cotton stretched over the ceiling to diffuse light on really sunny days.
What was the execution of Mary Stewart? First Special FX Movie.
Up to 1913 most films were still made in New York but since Thomas Edison Inc. held the patens on the film industry most filmmakers moved southern California and Texas.
Kalem Company were the first to send crews on location to shoot movies (no studios)
Kalem also pioneered the female action heroine from 1912, with Ruth Roland playing starring roles in their Westerns.
1902 A trip to the moon is the earliest known/example of the Sci Fi Genre.
Films then were under a minute and until 1927 done without sound.
Films were usually accompanied by live bands to enhance film experience.
First rotating camera was built in 1897 and so were the first studios
Panning shot camera was built by Robert W. Paul in 1897 on the occasion of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. His shot was referred to as a PANORAMA.

In 1900 the close up shot was invented (some say that DW Griffith invented it) First use of animation was 1899
1900 first motion pictures that can be considered as films.
First multi reel film was in 1906
The first theatre was called the Nickelodeon in Pittsburg in 1905
Who was DW Griffith?
The Photo Drama of Creation?
By the 1920s America was outputting 800 feature films annually (82% of the global total) How many are made on average now?
The Jazz Singer (first talkie)
Wings. First and only silent film to win an Oscar. Filmed at Kelly Base in San Antonio for a budget of $2 million from September 7 1926 – April 7 1927. Directed by William Wellman and released by Paramount Pictures. Only director at the time with WWI experience. First film two show two men kissing and first film with wide release to show nudity.

For Fridays test:
Who belongs in the production office?
Production staff. UPM, Production Supervisor, Production Coordinator, APOC, Production Secretary, Office PA’s and Office Interns.

Why is it important to know who belongs in Production Office? So you know who DOESN’T belong.
What is the best way to answer the phone in the Production Office? Production this is (NAME).
The Production Assistant or PA is thought to be half a rung up from? an Intern.
Good Production Assistants are worth their weight in gold yet as a group they are often the lowest paid.
What is an intern? Interns are students or individuals new to the industry who lack the experience and contacts.
What is the benefit for the production to have interns? Because they work for free!
What are the six major Hollywood Studios? Universal
MGM
Columbia

Paramount
Disney
FOX
(and sometimes Sony)

What was the House of Un-­‐‑American Activities Committee?
During the post WWII era what was the biggest threat to movies and theaters?

What is Cinemascope?
The House Un-American Activities Committee investigated Hollywood in the early 1950s. Protested by the Hollywood Ten before the committee, the hearings resulted in the blacklisting of many actors, writers and directors, including Chayefsky, Charlie Chaplin, and Dalton Trumbo, and many of these fled to Europe, especially the United Kingdom.
During the immediate post-war years the cinematic industry was also threatened by television, and the increasing popularity of the medium meant that some film theatres would bankrupt and close. The demise of the "studio system" spurred the self-commentary of films like Sunset Boulevard (1950) and The Bad and the Beautiful (1952).
Distressed by the increasing number of closed theatres, studios and companies would find new and innovative ways to bring audiences back. These included attempts to widen their appeal with new screen formats. Cinemascope, which would remain a 20th Century Fox distinction until 1967, was announced with 1953's The Robe. VistaVision, Cinerama, and Todd-AO boasted a "bigger is better" approach to marketing films to a dwindling US audience.
Gimmicks also proliferated to lure in audiences. The fad for 3-D film would last for only two years, 1952–1954, and helped sell House of Wax and Creature from the Black Lagoon.
What is Filmmaking? Unit 1. TEKS C5. Presentation describing the history of Filmmaking. (Advanced students must present 20 facts). Must present the history and evolution of the various related fields of study in filmmaking, its economic impact, and the interdependence between the technical and artistic sides of filmmaking. They can do this with a video, traditional presentation or a graphic model.
During the 1960s, the studio system in Hollywood declined, because many films were now being made on location in other countries, or using studio facilities abroad, such as Pinewood in the UK and Cinecittà in Rome. "Hollywood" films were still largely aimed at family audiences, and it was often the more old-fashioned films that produced the studios' biggest successes. Productions like Mary Poppins (1964), My Fair Lady (1964) and The Sound of Music (1965) were among the biggest money-makers of the decade. The growth in independent producers and production companies, and the increase in the power of individual actors also contributed to the decline of traditional Hollywood studio production.
The New Hollywood was the period following the decline of the studio system during the 1950s and 1960s and the end of the production code, (which was replaced in 1968 by the MPAA film rating system). During the 1970s, filmmakers increasingly depicted explicit sexual content and showed gunfight and battle scenes that included graphic images of bloody deaths - a good example of this is Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left (1972).
Post-classical cinema is the changing methods of storytelling of the New Hollywood producers. The new methods of drama and characterization played upon audience expectations acquired during the classical/Golden Age period: story chronology may be scrambled, storylines may feature unsettling "twist endings", main characters may behave in a morally ambiguous fashion, and the lines between the antagonist and protagonist may be blurred. The beginnings of post-classical storytelling may be seen in 1940s and 1950s film noir films, in films such as Rebel Without a Cause (1955), and in Hitchcock's Psycho. 1971 marked the release of controversial films like Straw Dogs, A Clockwork Orange, The French Connection and Dirty Harry. This sparked heated controversy over the perceived escalation of violence in cinema.
During the 1970s, a new group of American filmmakers emerged, such as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Woody Allen, Terrence Malick, and Robert Altman. This coincided with the increasing popularity of the auteur theory in film literature and the media, which posited that a film director's films express their personal vision and creative insights. The development of the auteur style of filmmaking helped to give these directors far greater control over their projects than would have been possible in earlier eras. This led to some great critical and commercial successes, like Scorsese's Taxi Driver, Coppola's The Godfather films, Altman’s Nashville, Allen's Annie Hall and Manhattan, Malick's Badlands and Days of Heaven, and Polish immigrant Roman Polanski's Chinatown. It also, however, resulted in some failures, including Peter Bogdanovich's At Long Last Love and Michael Cimino's hugely expensive Western epic Heaven's Gate, which helped to bring about the demise of its backer, United Artists.
Tuesday:
Top 10 Modern Film Directors:

Films of the 70’s:
The French Connection: First R Rated Film to win an Oscar
Deliverance: Banjo Scene. Filmed in Georgia
The Exorcist: Directed by William Friedkin (who also Directed the Fench Connection) First Horror film to get an academy award nomination for Best Picture.
Chinatown: Roman Polanski.
Godfather Part I and II
Jaws: Steven Spielberg. First Summer Blockbuster. Shark Never Worked One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Carrie
Rocky
Taxi Driver
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Star Wars

The Deer Hunter Halloween Texas Chainsaw Animal House Alien Apocalypse Now 

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