Film Studies 2018 - Louie Summers

British Social Realism  - Shows society at specific place and specific time in a realistic way - a realistic depiction - also known as kitchen sink cinema - usually fiction - comes from authors like dickens - Hue and Cry 1947 shot after WW2 using bombed out houses and neighbourhoods as sets - state sponsored from Britain to show British society - shine a positive light on Britain, resilient and defiant     - reflect post war time society, e.g. woman working, collective society - celebrate mundane everyday life - collective society vs individualism French New Wave and Italian Neo-realist - actual locations - documenteray visual style - avoid neat story lines - controversial speech, not literary dialogue - avoidance of fanciness (artifice) in editing, camera work, lighting - ' Angry young men' of 1950's theatre, the verisimilitude (believability in the world) of Italian Neo realism and the youth appeal of French New Wave - Emergence of art cinema challeng

Basic 3 point lighting - back light - low intensity - key light - brightest - fill light - medium intensity Low key and High key lighting - low key, darker lighting - high key, much brighter lighting - top lighting - under lighting - Chiaroscuro - in which harsh lighting creates contrast between areas of light and shade; used extensively in film noir, as well as in many horror films

Micro Features  18th September  - Sound and editing - Lighting - Camera movement - Camera angles - Shot sizes - Editing - Cinematography - Mise-en-scene Aesthetics is combination of micro features Cinematography - camera movement - shot size - camera angle Camera Movements - Panning - tracking, tilt (up and down), dolly zoom - Crane (going up) - tracking - in, back, left, right, with, behind - panning - pan left, pan right, whip pan (looking at edges of screen) - double dolly - Spike lee - static (still) - angle depends on how low the camera is the ground - crane shots - camera drifting up, track back, tilt down - crane down - dolly shots - mounted on a rig with a track and wheels Camera Racking (Pull Focus) - whats in focus (depth of field) - changing whats in focus in the frame Steadicam - rap around body with handle and camera mount to stabilise shots making them smooth and steady as well as portable Handheld camera shot - nauseating effect

What makes a British film?  - British characters  - British actors  - British settings  - British production  BFI and their requirements  12 years a slave  - British director - Steve McQueen  - British actors  - Funding from Film 4 (British film production)  - Baftas opinion - wasn't British as it is an american book, filmed in US, mostly non British cast and crew, mostly produced by US production companies Gravity  - Clooney and Sandra Bullock - American  - Mexican director  - Filmed in the UK  - Groundbreaking visual effects made in Britain  Star Wars (both new and old)  - Filmed in Britain - production team based in the UK BFI criteria and Baftas  - Significant British involvement  - British creativity  - Telling a British story is the most important part  - Being shot in the UK  - Cultural criteria  - important for finance e.g tax incentives  Uk film genres  - Sci- fi, Action, Fantasy - most exspensive genres 

6th September 2018