jacob_wurtinger



Year: 1962 Director: David Lean Rating: PG Genre: Adventure, Drama, War, Biography || Year: 1940 Director: John Ford Rating: NR Genre: Drama || (How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bomb) Year: 1964 Director: Stanley Kubrick Rating: PG Genre: Comedy, Thriller || Year:1959 Director: Alfred Hitchcock Rating: PG Genre: Action, Drama, Adventure, Mystery, Romance, Thriller || Year: 1998 Director: Steven Spielberg Rating: PG Genre: Action, Drama, War || Year: 1957 Director: Sidney Lumet Rating: PG-13 Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery ||
 * [[image:http://www.homevideos.com/bestpicturesPHOTOS/lawrence.jpeg]] || Lawrence of Arabia
 * [[image:http://www.homevideos.com/movies-covers/GrapesofWrath.jpg]] || The Grapes of Wrath
 * [[image:http://supak.com/store/videos/images/dr-strangelove.jpg]] || Dr. Strangelove
 * [[image:http://z.about.com/d/classicfilm/1/0/1/2/-/-/NorthNorthwest.jpg width="246" height="368"]] || North by Northwest
 * [[image:http://www.littlegoldenguy.com/posters/1998/1998_Saving_Private_Ryan.jpg width="270" height="368"]] || Saving Private Ryan
 * [[image:http://www.life.arizona.edu/diversity/images/12-angry-men-old.jpg width="255" height="368"]] || 12 Angry Men

Charle Chaplin

The movie Modern Times shows how people were fearful of unemployment and its effects by showing us a life in which a poor man who has been fired from his job ("The Tramp" Charlie Chaplin) finds a young orphan and begins to live with her. Later they find a little hut which is run down and breaks apart, and many people would fear that with unenployment they would lose their jobs and have to sell a nice home for just a shelter to live in like the little hut. Chaplin also could make anyone relate to the movie because he went through various jobs and problems to show it could really happen to anyone. We can still relate to the movie with our present time problems because eventhough the movie was made in 1936 the problems that showed up are still effecting people now.



__Bookends__:a term denoting scenes at the beginning and end of a film that complement each other and help tie a film together; aka **framing device**

__Lightning mix__: refers to the illuminaton of a scene and the manipulation of ligt and shadows by the cinematographer

__Symbolism__: Symbolism is the use of symbols to represent things such as ideas and emotions

__Chiaroscuro__:literally, the combination of the two Italian words for "clear/bright" and "dark"; refers to a notable, contrasting use of light and shade in scenes; often achieved by using a spotlight; this lighting technique had its roots in German Expressionistic cinematography

__Wipe__:a transitional technique or optical effect/device in which one shot appears to be "pushed off" or "wiped off" the screen by another shot replacing it and moving across the existing image; also called a **push-over**; a **flip-over** (or **flip**) wipe is when one scene rotates or flips-over to the new scene; wipes were very commonly used in the 30s

__Montage__: a French word literally meaning "editing", "putting together" or "assembling shots"; refers to a filming technique, editing style, or form of movie collage consisting of a series of short shots or images that are rapidly put together into a coherent sequence to create a composite picture, or to suggest meaning or a larger idea; in simple terms, the structure of editing within a film; a montage is usually not accompanied with dialogue; **dissolves**, **cuts**, **fades**, **super-impositions**, and **wipes** are often used to link the images in a montage sequence; an **accelerated montage** is composed of shots of increasingly-shorter lengths; contrast to **mise-en-scene**

__MacGuffin__:Alfred Hitchcock's term for the device or plot element (an item, object, goal, event, or piece of knowledge) that catches the viewer's attention or drives the logic or action of the plot and appears extremely important to the film characters, but often turns out to be insignificant or is to be ignored after it has served its purpose; its derivation is Scottish, meaning a "lion trap" for trapping lions in the lion-less Scottish Highlands (i.e., a trap that means nothing, since it is for an animal where there is no such animal).

__Forced perspective__: use of undifined distances to transform our prespective of size

__Dissolve__:a transitional editing technique between two sequences, shots or scenes, in which the visible image of one shot or scene is gradually replaced, superimposed or blended (by an overlapping **fade out** or **fade in** and **dissolve**) with the image from another shot or scene; often used to suggest the passage of time and to transform one scene to the next; lap dissolve is shorthand for **'over'lap dissolve**; also known as a **soft transition** or **dissolve to**

__Deep focus__:a style or technique of cinematography and staging with great **depth of field**, preferred by realists, that uses lighting, relatively wide angle lenses and small lens apertures to simultaneously render in sharp focus __both__ close and distant planes (including the three levels of foreground, middle-ground, and extreme background objects) in the same shot; contrast to **shallow focus** (in which only one plane is in sharp focus)

__Film within a film__:a particular story-telling approach, literally, to have one film within another; in some cases, the characters are aware of the 'film-within-a-film,' and break the **fourth wall** and enter into or interact with it; aka **subset film** or **picture within a picture**

__Subjective camera__: a film in which the narrator has a limited point-of-view regarding the characters, events, action, places, thoughts, conversations, etc.; a **subjective camera** is a style of filming that allows the viewer to look at events from the POV of either a character or the author, when the camera position is close to the line of sight of the character; contrast to **omniscient point-of-view**

__Narrative structure__:a structured series of events, linked by cause and effect, that provide the plot of a film; a film that tells a chronological or linear story (with a beginning, middle, and end), as opposed to non-narrative films, such as **poetic** or **abstract** films.

__Censorship__:the process of determining what can or can not be viewed by the public or depicted by the motion picture industry; also refers to changes required of a movie by some person or body (other than the studios or film-makers, such as a national or regional film classification board)