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    The document discusses several key technical conventions used in films, including: 1) The use of black-and-white versus color film and how each can convey different meanings. 2) How dominant colors are used to set tones and transition between scenes. 3) The two types of lighting used in films - neutral and expressive lighting. 4) Different types of camera shots including long shots, medium shots, close-ups, and extreme close-ups and how they focus viewers' attention. 5) Various camera angles and movements that impact storytelling like pans, tilts, zooms, and subjective point-of-view shots. 6) The important role soundtracks play in conjunction with camera

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    The document discusses several key technical conventions used in films, including: 1) The use of black-and-white versus color film and how each can convey different meanings. 2) How dominant colors are used to set tones and transition between scenes. 3) The two types of lighting used in films - neutral and expressive lighting. 4) Different types of camera shots including long shots, medium shots, close-ups, and extreme close-ups and how they focus viewers' attention. 5) Various camera angles and movements that impact storytelling like pans, tilts, zooms, and subjective point-of-view shots. 6) The important role soundtracks play in conjunction with camera

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    The document discusses several key technical conventions used in films, including: 1) The use of black-and-white versus color film and how each can convey different meanings. 2) How dominant colors are used to set tones and transition between scenes. 3) The two types of lighting used in films - neutral and expressive lighting. 4) Different types of camera shots including long shots, medium shots, close-ups, and extreme close-ups and how they focus viewers' attention. 5) Various camera angles and movements that impact storytelling like pans, tilts, zooms, and subjective point-of-view shots. 6) The important role soundtracks play in conjunction with camera

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    The technical

    conventions of a film
    Compact Performer Shaping Ideas
    Marina Spiazzi, Marina Tavella,
    Margaret Layton © 2021
    The technical conventions of a film

    1. Black-and-white films
    The use of colour has become
    the norm in films.

    The choice of black-and-white

    specific connotative value.


    Schindler’s list by Steven Spielberg, 1993.

    In this shot from a film about the holocaust:


    Black-and-white the darkest side of human nature.
    The colour of the little girl life, innocence, hope.

    Compact Performer Shaping Ideas


    The technical conventions of a film

    2. Use of a dominant colour


    The use
    of a dominant colour

    the passage from the


    present to the past,
    from the world of reality Saving Private Ryan, by Steven Spielberg,
    1998.
    to the one of imagination
    and dreams. In this shot the use of the dominant
    bluish-grey gives a realistic look, as
    if the viewer were right there with the
    soldiers on Omaha beach.

    Compact Performer Shaping Ideas


    The technical conventions of a film

    3. Lighting technique

    Light can take two forms

    a neutral light used to an expressive light used


    visualise different objects as a tool to create different
    and characters. atmospheres.

    Compact Performer Shaping Ideas


    The technical conventions of a film

    4. Different kinds of shots


    There are different kinds of shots

    Long shot focuses on landscape


    decreasing the importance of characters

    Compact Performer Shaping Ideas


    The technical conventions of a film

    4. Different kinds of shots


    American shot films the person
    from his/her knees

    Compact Performer Shaping Ideas


    The technical conventions of a film

    4. Different kinds of shots


    Medium shot introduces
    a character down to his/her waist

    Compact Performer Shaping Ideas


    The technical conventions of a film

    4. Different kinds of shots


    Close-up highlights either the face
    and the emotions of a character or the
    details of a particular object

    A scene of Harry Potter


    by Chris Columbus’s,
    2001.

    Compact Performer Shaping Ideas


    The technical conventions of a film

    4. Different kinds of shots


    Extreme close-up focuses
    on a detail of an object or a person

    Compact Performer Shaping Ideas


    The technical conventions of a film

    4. Different kinds of shots


    The cinematic image can vary according
    to the different angles of the camera.

    Normal-angle shot camera


    and subject are on the same level

    A scene of The Adjustment


    Bureau
    by George Nolfi, 2010.

    Compact Performer Shaping Ideas


    The technical conventions of a film

    4. Different kinds of shots


    The cinematic image can vary according
    to the different angles of the camera.

    High-angle shot the camera looks


    at its subject from above

    Compact Performer Shaping Ideas


    The technical conventions of a film

    4. Different kinds of shots


    The cinematic image can vary according
    to the different angles of the camera.

    Low-angle shot the camera looks


    at its subject from below

    A scene of Spider-Man
    by Sam Raimi, 2002.

    Compact Performer Shaping Ideas


    The technical conventions of a film

    5. Movements of the camera

    The movements of the camera play


    an important role. The camera can:

    • be fixed;
    • rotate on a horizontal plane exploring all the surrounding
    space pan;
    • rotate in a vortex circular pan.

    Compact Performer Shaping Ideas


    The technical conventions of a film

    5. Movements of the camera

    The movements of the camera play


    an important role. The camera can:

    • travel, following a moving object tracking;


    • assume the character’s point of view subjective gaze;
    • create a visual effect, enlarging or diminishing
    the image zoom.

    Compact Performer Shaping Ideas


    The technical conventions of a film

    6. The soundtrack
    The movements of the camera create the
    rhythm of a film and its dramatic tension.
    These elements can be reinforced by:

    the soundtrack

    music noises dialogues

    Compact Performer Shaping Ideas

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