FILM TV 122D Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Establishing Shot, Docudrama, Stock Footage
2 Jun 2018
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• One camera shooting
• Ethical: do not show things that didn't happen
• Propaganda: flip side of documentary
• Frank Capra, propaganda for WWII
• Nanook of the North (1922)
o The first documentary
o Film industry already using different shot techniques, but this one didn't use
any, to make it look more true
• Man with a movie camera
o Celebrating worker and the industrial age
o Camera on the street of Moscow
o Hidden camera allow shooting people's normal life
o Editing as a part of soviet montage movement
• The city 1939
o Contrasting bucolic suburban life with life in the city
o Not diegetic sound to create how overpowering the city is
o Rhythmic montage, dynamic selection of shots together
o Jump cut- congested, experimental in America (short budget)
• Triumph of the will
o Promoting Hitler to the world
o Military promotion: good food (German in recession) / clean
o Many camera, many footages
o Heroic shot-- low camera angle, celebration of white German youth
o Quick cuts creating editing rhythm-- revolutionary
• Olympia
o Focus on the aesthetics rather than the individuals
o Symmetry of shots
o Only one underwater shot
o Not seeing water when jumping-- ballet of the air, sculpture-like aesthetic
o Dissolve and tilt down to the arena, shape of arena--shape of the bell
• Why we fight
o Stock footage of countries, hard to know what is being show without sound
o Hand gesture: make the man seem flippant, showing your side of the matter
when doing propaganda
o Animations, maps and visual analogies
• Only choose a part of the interview, the image is chose to go with the narration
o B-roll : second camera unit/ stock footage, no dialogue, took to show with
the narration, dramatizations,
o Lower thirds: people's name and occupation
o Music and sound
• Documentary
o Observational: "fly on the wall" --no narration
• Cinema verate-- some believe that the filmmaker have to be a part of
the story
o Expository: "voice of god" narrator, not supposed to have a POV,
but want to raise emotion in the audiences and induce leaning towards
certain subjects
o Personal essay-- voice of filmmaker
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