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Comm 231 Exam 3 Notes

Communication 231 notes from the last 1/3 of the semester.
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Film & TV Production Concepts (COMM231)

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Further thoughts on editing - Continuity editing (avoiding disjuncture in space/time) - Sound bridges – when sound from the next scene begins in the current scene on the film - Flashbacks, flash-forwards (shifts in time-frame – for what purpose?) - Superimpositions (double exposure) - Establishing timing and rhythm through the shot length - Condensing time, expanding time - Parallel time through parallel editing

Montage in The Graduate - Match cuts - Jump cut - Strong contrast between black and white - Facial expressions

Sound in Film - What are we less tolerant of in movies o Grainy, shaky, low light images or badly recorded sounds - What are we less tolerant of in movies History - Invention 1877, 1895, and 1927 - Consideration – lack of sensory incompleteness unlike other art forms Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (Midge Costin, 2019) Score is not interchangeable with soundtrack For types of sound in film - Music - Sound effect - Voices - Room tone or dead sound (inserting silence into a film) Elements of film sounds 1. Three phases of making sound (during production) - Create the sound - Record the sound - Mix the sound 2. Dubbing (postproduction) Range and types of sound in film a. Four types of sound b. Diegetic and nondiegetic sound – the source pf the sound is visible on screen or the source is implied to be present (living in NYC, sounds of the city when opening a window) nondiegetic – the music in a film

c. Automated dialogue replacement (ADR – automatic dialogue replacement, when you shot a scene, but you cannot use the dialogue due to the other sounds on the scene, aka the actors talking as a train goes by, looping) d. Digital Manipulation e. Foley (3 reasons) – art and craft of creating sound for film a. Ethical or moral reason b. Creative reasons c. Practical reasons f. Transitions (4 kinds)

November 4th, 2021 Sound and Music in Film

The <Shepard tone= – a tone that seems to be rising in scale but never gets there

Atmosphere and Mood Eraser head (David Lynch) How does the sound design establish mood in this scene? - Establishes an unsettling mood Mickeymousing – is when we are using music as a literal equivalent to the action we are seeing on the screen

Sound can... - actively shape how we interpret the image - guide us to focus on elements of the image - affect us on its own - clarify events, contradict them, or render them ambiguous

Sound design in Dracula Diegetic versus non-diegetic

The Blair Witch Project (1999) How differently is sound used in this scene to establish a sense of dread and horror - recorded footage, no music makes us pay attention to of the natural sounds of the film, tent zipping, stepping on leaves, heavy breathing

Sound Design Y Tu Mama Tambien

Movies for film response paper 3: Black panther Far from heaven Martha Marcy May Marlene - editing Y Tu Mama Tambien

  • Foreign distribution
  • Pick your battles
  • <Kill your darlings= Project Green Light discussion paper topic (answer all three questions)

November 30th, 2021 Fourth film response is due this Friday and counts as your fourth and fifth response, if you want extra credit you can pass a response in on the 17th on film you haven’t already written about

Layers of Pompeii - What is the film about? o Contemporary Pompeii and why it is such a tourist attraction - Who do we fear from in this film? o People from all over the world, tourist and Italians - How would you describe the style of the film o Nonfiction non scripted film Non-fiction filmmaking Documentary filmmaking - Nature docs - Historical docs - Biographical docs Nonscripted Filmmaking - (aka observational filmmaking) - Direct cinema - Cinema Vertie

Non-fiction film making - Narrativizing the real – the crisis in Israel, it’s a horrible event but not a story, we make the story out of it - Finding or creating narrative – are we finding the narrative or are we creating a story around a particular event - The cinematic medium – it needs to have a cinematic elements, what is visual about the subject matter, creating a relationship between ethos (credibility) , logos (logistics, power of arguments), and pathos (emotions) - Cinematic strategies o Visual aesthetics o Working with non-actors o Coverage for non-scripted sequences o Controlling light and sound o Flexibility on the ground o Editing as storytelling - Formalist elements of non-fiction film - Ethno-fiction - - Ethics and informed consent

o Rapport with subjects o Disclose your intent o Ask them to look at some of the footage.. just for the sake of ethics but for getting feedback

Think cinematically

  • Steady camera
  • Camera movements
  • Hand-held aesthetic

AKA <Observational Cinema= - Direct cinema (fly on the wall) - Cinema veritÈ (truth) (fly in the soup) – you cannot pretend you’re not there, the film process is part of the social situation Realism and formalism in Documentary Film - Emotional realism -ex cave movie - Ecstatic truth - Nonfiction filmmaking uses formalistic elements (music, narration, montage, even animation) in its efforts to achieve a sense of realism. But it needs to be a delicate and justifiable use of formalist element Grizzly man

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Comm 231 Exam 3 Notes

Course: Film & TV Production Concepts (COMM231)

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University: University of Massachusetts Amherst

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November 1, 2021
Editing
Further thoughts on editing
- Continuity editing (avoiding disjuncture in space/time)
- Sound bridges – when sound from the next scene begins in the current scene on the film
- Flashbacks, flash-forwards (shifts in time-frame – for what purpose?)
- Superimpositions (double exposure)
- Establishing timing and rhythm through the shot length
- Condensing time, expanding time
- Parallel time through parallel editing
Montage in The Graduate
- Match cuts
- Jump cut
- Strong contrast between black and white
- Facial expressions
Sound in Film
- What are we less tolerant of in movies
o Grainy, shaky, low light images or badly recorded sounds
- What are we less tolerant of in movies
History
- Invention 1877, 1895, and 1927
- Consideration – lack of sensory incompleteness unlike other art forms
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (Midge Costin, 2019)
Score is not interchangeable with soundtrack
For types of sound in film
- Music
- Sound effect
- Voices
- Room tone or dead sound (inserting silence into a film)
Elements of film sounds
1. Three phases of making sound (during production)
- Create the sound
- Record the sound
- Mix the sound
2. Dubbing (postproduction)
Range and types of sound in film
a. Four types of sound
b. Diegetic and nondiegetic sound – the source pf the sound is visible on screen or the
source is implied to be present (living in NYC, sounds of the city when opening a
window) nondiegetic – the music in a film

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