3000 Presentation 17 Do the Right Thing Study Guide
EMC/JOUR 3000 Spring 2012 Lecture 1 Technical Dimension
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INTRO TO MOTION
PICTURES
Edward Bowen
Lecture One - The Technical
Dimension, Part 1
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Camera Obscura
• Take a big box into the sunlight.
• Get inside.
• Cut a small hole in one side.
• Stand clear.
• On the side opposite the hole you will see an
image (reversed and upside down) of what's
outside.
• You are in a camera obscura.
• Put a piece of film where the image is and
expose it.
• You are now in a camera.
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Camera Obscura
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuJ_Jd6Qgyo
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Persistence of Vision
The concept that the eye retains one image just
long enough to blend it with a following
image.
This permits a sequence of still pictures to
appear as one continuous action.
Physiologists and neurologists have developed
revised theories for how we perceive motion
(Beta Movement, Phi Phenomenon).
The theory of “persistence of vision” still retains
popular acceptance.
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Persistence of Vision
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3veFqnnob0A
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Apparent Motion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ulQ_vaBM0Q
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Film
One medium on which motion picture images
are recorded
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Film
One medium on which motion picture images
are recorded.
Film is composed of many layers, two of which
are
• a base, and
• emulsion.
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Film Base – Cellulose, a synthetic plastic
invented around 1870.
• Cellulose Nitrate, or Nitrate Film
• Cellulose Acetate, or Safety Film
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Film Base
• Cellulose Nitrate, or Nitrate Film
• Unstable
• Highly flammable
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Film Base
• Cellulose Nitrate, or Nitrate Film
• Unstable
• Highly flammable
• Made illegal in 1949
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Film is not a permanent medium.
About 80% of films made before 1920 no longer
exist.
About 50% of films made before 1950 no longer
exist.
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Film Emulsion
The layer of photo-sensitive chemicals that
coats the film base
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Film Emulsion
The layer of photo-sensitive chemicals (silver
halide) that coats the film base
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ5bf_GEW_o
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Film Emulsion
• Black and White – A single chemical layer
renders only shades from black to white
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Film Emulsion
• Black and White
• Color – Comprised of three layers of
emulsion: yellow, magenta, and cyan.
Combined they render full color
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Film Emulsion
• Black and White
• Color – Two tone Technicolor
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Film Emulsion
• Black and White
• Color – Two tone Technicolor
“The Phantom of the Opera” 1925
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRuPzVXlcKM
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Film Emulsion
• Black and White
• Color
• Grain
• Contrast – The relationship of the brightest
and darkest parts of an image. HIGH
CONTRAST evidences extremes between
bright and dark elements. LOW CONTRAST
evidences little difference in brightness
among the elements.
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HD Digital Video
Another medium on which motion picture
images are recorded.
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HD Digital Video
Another medium on which motion picture
images are recorded.
Digital cinematography cameras capture
images using CMOS or CCD sensors.
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HD Digital Video
Another medium on which motion picture
images are recorded.
Digital cinematography cameras capture
images using CMOS or CCD sensors.
Information is stored on magnetic tape or as
digital files onto random-access media like
optical discs, hard disk drives or flash
memory-based digital “magazines.”
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HD Digital Video
Another medium on which motion picture
images are recorded.
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HD Digital Video – “Russian Ark” (2002)
http://youtu.be/H0Z4bUfUYdw
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Frame. A single photograph in a series that
comprise a motion image.
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Aspect ratio: The relationship of the width of the image to
the height of the image.
Standard or Academy ratio (4 X 3 or 1.33:1). In adopting
the 35 mm format early filmmakers established the
standard aspect ratio as a classical rectangle with a ratio
of four units of width to three units of height. Thus if the
projected image is twenty feet wide it will be fifteen feet
high.
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Aspect ratio: The relationship of the width of the image
to the height of the image.
Widescreen (1.66:1;1.85:1; 2.35:1). Over the years many
filmmakers (Lumière, Griffith, Gance, etc.) experimented with
the widescreen. Gance’s system, for example, employed
three regular-sized screens, producing an effective aspect
ratio of 3.99:1. Efforts to introduce widescreen technology
were not successful until the 1950s when cinema tried to
counter program against television. Some of the 1950s
widescreens had a ratio of as much as 2.66:1
(CinemaScope). An image 26.6 feet wide and ten feet tall
made for some strange closeups! The American standard
widescreen ratio was finally set at 1.85:1. (The European
standard widescreen ratio is 1:66:1.) Wider ratios are
available through the use of anamorphic lens systems
(2:35:1) and 70 mm film (2.2:1). IMAX and movie rides are
another matter, with domed and curved screens that defy the
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IMAX – 1.36:1
Standard IMAX screen is 22 × 16.1 m
(72 × 52.8 ft)
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3D - Creating the illusion of depth by
photographing two images simultaneously,
one for the viewer’s right eye and one for the
left, then projecting or displaying them in such
a fashion that each eye sees only one of the
images. The brain then “thinks” it sees three
dimensions.
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3D
http://youtu.be/DFJZ1HKybZA
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/video/video-james-
cameron-martin-scorsese-hugos-3d-special-effects