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Introduction:
Importance
History Rolling photos of the lumiere brothers
Two of the earliest film makers in
history were brothers, The Lumière
brothers, Auguste and Louis Lumière. The school the lumiere brothers
Both of which were born in France in attended
1862 and 1864. During the time in
which the brothers were developing
their film camera, they both patented
a number of significant processes,
such as perforations as a means of
advancing the film through the Show the first film they made
camera and projector. The
cinematograph, a film camera which
acts as a film projector and developer,
was patented by the brothers on the
13th of February in 1895, the first
footage to be recorded using it was
recorded on March the 19th in 1895.
On the 28th of December in 1895, the
Lumiere brothers showed their work
on a 17 metre piece of film, this would
last around 50 seconds when run
through a crank camera. The footage
shown was of a workers leaving a Show pictures of George and clips
factory. The video below is the entire from his films
film of the workers leaving a factory.
After seeing the Lumiere Brothers
sensational moving picture camera in
action in 1895, Melies rushed out to
establish his own studio and began
making films that featured clever
illusions and tricks created by
experimenting with double exposure,
cutting and rewinding, building on his
theatrical innovations. Using elaborate
painted sets akin to those of Paris's
music halls, Melies was a true pioneer
who played a key role in the evolution
of cinematic technique and the
medium's storytelling grammar. He
also had an acute sensitivity for the
sort of blockbuster spectacle
audiences would be attracted
to. Specialising in horror and steam
punk science fiction, his most famous
film remains A Trip To The Moon,
Georges Méliès's The Fours
Troublesome Heads from 1898. The
Four Troublesome Heads is, quite
clearly, a one-shot film simply
showcasing an “illusion” by Méliès
himself. As you know, he was a stage
magician for quite a few years and his
interest in stage magic really excited
him about the possibilities of film. At
last, he could perform illusions far
more elaborate and surreal than was
possible on the stage–such as making
talking duplicates of his own head and
trying to make them sing. Nowadays
it’s pretty easy to guess the
techniques he used. He used
substitution splicing, a.k.a. stop-
substitutions a.k.a. stop-tricks, every
time he takes off his “head.” This
meant stopping the camera and
placing a dummy head in his hands
and what appears to be a dark cloth
or bag over his real head. The multiple
“heads” were photographed using the
wonders of the multiple exposure and
split-screen techniques.
D.W. Griffith
was responsible for many innovations
in the film industry including:
Classical Cutting- also known as
continuity editing is a style of editing
that is characterised by the sequence
of shots is determined by a scene’s
dramatic and emotional emphasis
rather than physical action. In other
words it was the basis for modern
editing that we see in all our films
today. A classic example would be the
scene in the Good, the Bad and the
Ugly when the 3 main characters are
preparing to shoot one another and
the camera cuts between the 3 of
them to heighten tension.
Close-up- first used for psychological
reasons. These shots contain the
actors shoulders and head in the
frame and not much else of their body.
An example of this would be the
infamous scene in the silence of the
lambs when Hannibal Lector is being
interviewed in his cell by detective
Starling and he tells her that he ate
someone’s liver.
Parallel Editing– Multiple scenes
taking place at the same time in the
film’s continuity but in different
locations, this technique is used to
heighten tension and creative
emotional responses with the
audience. An example of Parallel
Editing (or Cross cutting as it is also
called) is in the DW Griffith film “Birth
of a Nation” when the black Union
soldiers are raiding a house and there
are some women and children are
hiding in the basement, the
Confederate army has been warned of
the raid and they are on their way to
save them. It constantly cuts between
scenes to heighten tension as the
Union troops get ever closer to
discovering the women and children
and you don’t know how far away the
Confederate troops are. Another few
examples include: “Star Wars:
Revenge of Sith” when Order 66 is
given and all the Jedi are slaughtered
across the Galaxy.
EditShare Lightworks:
Lightworks was one of the
original players alongside
Avid, but it isn't quite as
popular anymore as it used
to be.
Pixar Renderman:
Renderman was originally
developed for fully 3D
animation by Pixar, but it's
pretty common for live action
work as well.