Slides from webinar on November 11, 2020

1. Visual Language
How video shots communicate to an audience

2. What is your favorite Movie?
Do you watch the same movie over
and over or do you like new movies?
Do you like to watch a movie or a tv series?
Do you watch Youtube, TickToc or
Instagram video?

3. What makes video an effective
means of communication?

4. What do you find entertaining
in video?

5. How long do you think you
have to grab the audience’s
attention?

6. What kind of video would you
like to make?

7. Studying Cinema
• Going beyond the entertainment of what is happening
• Studying how the elements are used means analyzing
and repetition
• Watch it seven times

8. 1. Plot and entertainment
2. Actors and stage blocking
3. Cinematography: camera angles and light
4. Sound: music and sound effects
5. Editing: pace
6. Props and Costumes
7. Themes and how the scene fits into the whole film

9. • Hudsucker Proxy
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FPuyMHo2N8
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10. Everything is a choice that
is communicating theme
and tone to the audience.
Mis en scene

11. From the costumes and set
what do you guess will be the
theme of this movie? It’s tone?

12. What was the first clue
this was a comedy?

13. Pure Cinema

14. Storyboards
1. Time management using a shot list
2. Information in each shot Information/time
3. Communicate to cast and crew
4. Insures continuity and screen direction
You don’t have to be an artist, rough thumbnail sketches are often better

16. Wide Shot
Establishing Geography and Setting
What are characters’ RELATIONSHIP to the setting?

17. Wide Shot
Establishing Geography and Setting

18. Wide Shot
Establishing Geography and Setting

19. Close up
Reveals Character
What are characters’ RELATIONSHIP to their own emotions?

20. Close up
Establishing Geography and Setting
What are characters’ RELATIONSHIP to their own emotions?

21. Close up
Establishing Geography and Setting
What are characters’ RELATIONSHIP to their own emotions?

22. Close up
Establishing Geography and Setting
What are characters’ RELATIONSHIP to their own emotions?

23. Close up
Establishing Geography and Setting
What are characters’ RELATIONSHIP to their own emotions?
Insert Shot

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25. Medium Shot
What are characters’
RELATIONSHIP to each other?
Look at how the board members are arranged.
What does that tell you about them?
The president of the company is distinguished
by being at the head of the table
and the center of the frame

26. Medium Shot
What are characters’
RELATIONSHIP to each other?
Usually more than one person in frame. Size and distance show their relationship.

27. Medium Shot
What are characters’
RELATIONSHIP to each other?
Wide Shot
What are characters’
RELATIONSHIP to setting?
Close up
What are characters’ RELATIONSHIP
to their own emotions?

28. Psychologically shots don’t
come ‘after’ one another. they
come ‘on top’ of one another.
Kuleshov Effect
1 + 2 = Emotion

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35. Psychologically shots
don’t come ‘after’ one
another. they come ‘on
top’ of one another.
Kuleshov Effect
1 + 2 =
Emotion

36. Shooting to edit
• On set you have a limited amount of time. You need to get
shots finished so they edit together.
• Knowing how to edit will teach you which shots your will
need. ‘thinking with the end in mind.’

37. Shot sequence
• There is a logic to shooting wide to close: establishing the
location (where) also screen geography and time period in
history
• Medium shot relationship to each other
• Build to CU to their emotional reaction to what they have
learned during the scene. A decision leads to the next
sequence.

38. Shot Story
• Something should happen or change in every shot
• Movement, transformation, character learns new
information, audience learns new information
• A visual change/ a reason to edit

39. Describe and clarify the
significance of the
President’s chair?
https://youtu.be/mg2N0dOb_jM

40. The camera is telling you who people are
and their importance through geography,
shot composition and editing pace.

41. Storyboards
• Eye lines and angles. It is about information.
just like the concept of revisualization taught by Ansel Adams

42. Mise en Scene
the arrangement of scenery and stage props in a play
the setting or surroundings of an event or action
Chekhov’s Gun

43. Blocking
• Details of how an actor moves on camera
• coordinating cars and background extras
• The stock will “drop”

44. Continuity
• The illusion of continuous time
combining more-or-less related shots into a sequence
to direct the viewer's attention to consistency of story
across both time and physical location

45. Insert
• is any shot that's sole purpose is to focus the viewer's
attention to a specific detail within a scene. These shots
are often placed from the point of view of a character,
suggesting that we see what the character sees during a
moment of concentration.

46. Transition
• how scenes are combined:
• cut
• dissolve shows passage of time
• wipes like used in Star Wars

47. Shooting Out of Sequence
• The illusion of continuous time

48. Synchronized Sound
• Playing sound and picture
at the same time

50. Montage
• asserts that a series of images form complex ideas and
emotions.
• The total idea of a work is expressed in the piling on of
images and their associations.

51. Dubbed
• Same as looped or ADR
• Most dialogue in film is looped in a studio, because
getting clean sound on set is very hard to do.

52. Planning
• PreProduction
• Production
• PostProduction
• Marketing
• Distribution and Exhibition

53. Conclusion
• To get the shots you need for editing, many directors will use the script
to draw a shot list or storyboard.
• You never have enough time on set. Only get the shots you need for
editing. Get the shot and move on.
• The composition shows relationships, wide, medium and close up.
• Mise en Scene is the art direction that communicates theme and tone.
• Editing theory says shots pile on top of one another creating emotions.
• Sound and Picture are separate elements that only appear to be in
sync.

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56. • The Dark Knight
• https://www.google.com/url?
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• Lord of the Rings
• https://youtu.be/vYjA8xQHK7Q
• No Country for old men
• https://youtu.be/LfgFzC_-yEU