Art Music Theater F200

Film Making has many different components that work synergistically to create an artistic product.

Camera Shots and Scene Transitions

• What the director and director of photography choose to show you [audio:camerawork.mp3]
• How close and how far away? [audio:howclose.mp3]
• What angle is the point of view? [audio:angle.mp3]
• How much of the shot is in focus? [audio:focus.mp3]
• Does the camera remain stationary, or does the camera move? [audio:motion.mp3]

How the director takes you from one location or time to another is important.

• Fade in, fade out [audio:fades.mp3]
• Dissolves and Jump cuts add sound clip dissolves and jumps [audio:dissolvesandjumps.mp3]
• Sound overs [audio:soundover.mp3]
• Creative transitions [audio:artsy.mp3]

Casting

[audio:casting.mp3]

• Big names or not?
• All the other parts — secondary roles, and extras

Symbolism

Visual symbols and literary symbols

Sound

• A huge and often very technical aspect of film making [audio:sound.mp3]
• Characteristic sounds and natural sounds [audio:characteristicsounds.mp3]
• The foley artist and crew [audio:foley.mp3]
• Room tone [audio:roomtone.mp3]
• Establishing sound [audio:establishingsound.mp3]

Music

• Extremely important
• Orchestral music — important film composers [audio:filmscores.mp3]
• Danny Elfman
• John Williams
• Jerry Goldsmith
• Hans Zimmer
• Soundtrack choices [audio:soundtrack.mp3]

Visual Effects

• Scenery and sets [audio:visuals.mp3]
• Costumes
• Lighting
• Technological Effects [audio:visualeffects.mp3]
• Slow motion
• Time lapse and fast motion
• Creating the unbelievable
• Computer generated graphics
• Flying
• Puppets
• A Real “Shoot ‘em Up’
• Explosions
• Car Crashes
• Blood and wounds
• Falls
• Cliff hanging

Script

[audio:script.mp3]

• Typical scripted film
• Adaptations
• Improv
• Gimmicks
• View some actual scripts