FILM 1F94
September 3, 2014
Lecture 1
Professor Barry Keith Grant
Terrance McDonald – Course Co-Ordinator
Cinema – Industry, a social institution, entertainment, an art form.
September 5, 2014
Lecture 2
Becoming a Film Student
An introduction to screening and viewing practices
September 10, 2014
Lecture 3
The Beginnings of Cinema
Peter Mark Roget (1769-1879)
Persistence of Vision
Thaumatrope (1824)
Animation Cel
Zoetrope
Invented in 1833 by British Mathematician William George Horner
Panorama
Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904)
Series Photography
Chronophotographic gun (1882)
Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904)
Animal Locomotion series 1884-1887
The horse in motion
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
Kinetoscope (1891)
Black Maria (1893) West Orange, NJ. World’s first film studio.
Modern Times
Auguste and Louis Lumiere
First public film screening
Salon Indien
Basement of Grand Café
Paris, December 28 1895
George Meliwa (1861-1938)
Magician who exploited the illusionistic potential of cinema
Fades
Dissolves
Stop action
Superimpositions
Matte shots A trip to the moon
Lumiere Brothers: Actualities (realist, documentary)
George Melies: artificially arranged scenes (expressionist, fiction)
September 12, 2014
Lecture 4
Cutting to continuity or continuity editing
invisible editing or classical editing
Established narrative film as the dominant cinematic mode (not very often do documentaries etc. get shown in main stream cinemas)
Diegesis the world created by a fictional text
Textual elements can be diegetic (have a source within the context of the film) or non diegetic
Edwin S. Porter 1870-1941
A cameraman for the Edison company, then became a director
Thinking more cinematically then theatrically, ie. Close ups
Silent films were always shown accompanied with music, first a piano player then an organist, then finally they had orchestras to accompany the films
David Wark Griffith (1875-1948)
From continuity editing to classical (invisible) editing
“Griffith
Lecture 1
Professor Barry Keith Grant
Terrance McDonald – Course Co-Ordinator
Cinema – Industry, a social institution, entertainment, an art form.
September 5, 2014
Lecture 2
Becoming a Film Student
An introduction to screening and viewing practices
September 10, 2014
Lecture 3
The Beginnings of Cinema
Peter Mark Roget (1769-1879)
Persistence of Vision
Thaumatrope (1824)
Animation Cel
Zoetrope
Invented in 1833 by British Mathematician William George Horner
Panorama
Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904)
Series Photography
Chronophotographic gun (1882)
Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904)
Animal Locomotion series 1884-1887
The horse in motion
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
Kinetoscope (1891)
Black Maria (1893) West Orange, NJ. World’s first film studio.
Modern Times
Auguste and Louis Lumiere
First public film screening
Salon Indien
Basement of Grand Café
Paris, December 28 1895
George Meliwa (1861-1938)
Magician who exploited the illusionistic potential of cinema
Fades
Dissolves
Stop action
Superimpositions
Matte shots A trip to the moon
Lumiere Brothers: Actualities (realist, documentary)
George Melies: artificially arranged scenes (expressionist, fiction)
September 12, 2014
Lecture 4
Cutting to continuity or continuity editing
invisible editing or classical editing
Established narrative film as the dominant cinematic mode (not very often do documentaries etc. get shown in main stream cinemas)
Diegesis the world created by a fictional text
Textual elements can be diegetic (have a source within the context of the film) or non diegetic
Edwin S. Porter 1870-1941
A cameraman for the Edison company, then became a director
Thinking more cinematically then theatrically, ie. Close ups
Silent films were always shown accompanied with music, first a piano player then an organist, then finally they had orchestras to accompany the films
David Wark Griffith (1875-1948)
From continuity editing to classical (invisible) editing
“Griffith