ART A P P RECIATION

Review AND QUIZ # 2

TOPIC: FILM AND PERFORMANCE ART
REVIEW
 FILM
 What is Film?

- a special material that is used for taking

photographs
- the process, art, or business of making movies
- a thin layer on or over the surface of something
 digital
 What is Digital?

- Does not require developmental expenses.

 MACRO and MICRO elements of film
language

MACRO MICRO –
 GENRE  CINEMATOGRAPHY
 NARRATIVE  SOUND
 EDITING
 MISE EN SCENE
 LIGHTING
 Cinematography
Refers to the visual aspects of a film’s language

Camera shots and movement can give us clear indications of

emotion, motive and give audiences clues as to things that
may be about to happen.
 Camera shots

Close-up (and extreme close- Wide (long) shot (often

up) establishing shot)
Medium Close Up Low angle shot
Mid-shot High angle shot
Mid-long shot Birds eye view
Long shot
 Camera movement

Pan (side to side) It’s important students

Tilt (up and down) practice identifying these shots
and link to their developing
Whip pan
knowledge of genre and
Crane shot narrative.
Tracking shot
 Setting
Where is it?
What props are used?
Was a set created or did they shoot on location?
Can you tell?
What kind of mood is being conveyed through
this setting?
 Costume and Makeup

Should instill the proper mood.

Represent the characters personality, social status, and the
time period in which they exist.
Costume often coordinates with setting.
 Lighting
 Lighting can be manipulated in many ways to create
highlights and shadows. Highlights provide important cues
to the texture of the surface.

 There are two basic types of shadow : attached and shading

or cast shadows.
 Lighting
 There are two basic types of shadow : attached and shading
or cast shadows.
 An attached shadow occurs when light fails to illuminate
part of an object because of the object’s shape or surface
features.
 Cast shadows are caused by an object being between the
light source and the camera.
 Lighting
Types of lighting also include :
o Sidelight/ crosslight o Key light

o Backlighting o Fill light

o Underlighting o Low-key illumination

o Top lighting
 LIGHTING & COLOUR

Is used to create mood and atmosphere

Positioning of lights creates different effects

High key lighting

Low key lighting

 Sound

The world of the film as we see it on the cinema screen is known as the
DIEGETIC world.
When we watch a film the sound we hear can be DIEGETIC OR NON-
DIEGETIC.
DIEGETIC SOUND is sound that is part of the film world.
 Sound

NON-DIEGETIC sound is sound that is not recognized as part of the film

world – e.g. voice over, background music
PARALLEL SOUND – sound which compliments the visual image.
CONTRAPUNTAL SOUND – sound which does not fit with the image but helps
to create new meanings.
 Sound & Genre
Elements of sound reveal key aspects of genre to an audience
Sound is important in informing us about the time in which a
film is set or the kind of action we can expect
Certain types of music have become synonymous with
particular genres
 Sound & Narrative

Voice overs allow us to see things from a particular character’s

point of view
They are often used to introduce and ‘round up’ the narrative
SOUND BRIDGES aid continuity as sound from one sequence
carries on into the next
Types of film
 Action

• high energy
• big-budget physical stunts and chases
• rescues, battles, fights, escapes, destructive crises (floods, explosions,
natural disasters, fires, etc.)
• non-stop motion, spectacular rhythm and pacing, and adventurous
• often with 'good-guy' heroes or heroines battling 'bad guys'
 horror

• designed to frighten and to invoke our hidden worst fears.

• There are many sub-genres of horror: slasher, teen terror, serial

killers, vampires, zombies, Satanic, Dracula, Frankenstein.
 adventure

• exciting stories, new experiences or exotic locales

• traditional swashbucklers, serialized films, and historical spectacles ,

searches or expeditions for lost continents, "jungle" and "desert" epics,
treasure hunts, disaster films, or searches for the unknown
 comedy

• to amuse and provoke laughter (with one-liners, jokes, etc.)

• various forms of comedy through cinematic history, including
slapstick, screwball, spoofs and parodies, romantic comedies,
black comedy (dark satirical comedy), and more.
 Romance/love

• to have or try to have a romantic relationship with someone

• to give special attention to someone in order to get something

that you want from that person
 Science fiction
• * scientific, visionary and • technology, unknown and
imaginative unknowable forces,
• * heroes, aliens, distant planets, • and extraordinary monsters ('things
impossible or
• quests, improbable settings, • creatures from space'), either
fantastic places, created by mad
• great dark and shadowy villains, • scientists or by nuclear havoc.
futuristic
 thriller
• intense excitement, suspense, a high level of anticipation, ultra-
heightened expectation, uncertainty, anxiety, and nerve-
wracking tension.
• there are action-thrillers, crime-caper thrillers, western-
thrillers, film-noir thrillers, even romantic comedythrillers.
• The acclaimed Master of Suspense is Alfred Hitchcock.
• Spy films
 war
• the horror and heartbreak of war, letting the actual combat
fighting
• action, adventure, drama, romance, comedy (black), suspense,
and even epics and westerns
• stories of military operations, and training
 animated

• full of life and energy

• produced by the creation of a series of drawing, pictures, etc.,

that are shown quickly one after another
 western

• the major defining genre of the American film industry

• six-guns, horses, dusty towns and trails, cowboys, Indians

 documentary

• Nonfiction
• Actualities
• Documentation Window
onto the world Animals, plants, etc.
 crime and gangster

• criminals or mobsters
• bankrobbers, underworld figures, or ruthless hoodlums
• outside the law, stealing and murdering their way through life.
• serial killers
 historical

• Of or relating to history
• Based on history
• Arranged in the order that thing happened or came to be
 Musical/dance

• full-scale scores or song and dance routines

• combinations of music, dance, song or choreography.

• subgenres include the musical comedy or the concert film.

 dramas
• serious, plot-driven presentations, portraying realistic
characters, settings, life situations, and stories involving intense
character development and interaction.
• No special-effects, comedy, or action
• melodramas, epics (historical dramas), or romantic genres.
• Dramatic biographical films
 Performance art
 Artin which the medium is the artist's own body and the
artwork takes the form of actions performed by the artist.

 Art that could not be bought, sold or traded as a commodity.

 Characteristic
 Performance Art may be comprised of painting, sculpture,
dialogue, poetry, music, dance, film footage, laser lights,
animals, fire, etc.

 Performance Art may be entertaining, amusing, shocking or

horrifying. It is meant to be memorable
QUIZ
Read and analyze the questions properly. Write your
answers in ½ sheet of paper.

1. What is Film?
2. Why Is The Film Designed The Way It Is?
3. How Can We Understand The Choices Made By The Filmmakers?
4. How Do The Creative Choices Shape Our Experiences?
5. What is the use of TECHNOLOGY, INDUSTRY in film making?
6. Give at least 5 Camera Shots?
7. Give at least 5 Types of Films?
Read and analyze the questions properly. Write your
answers in ½ sheet of paper.

1. What is Performance Art?

2. What are the Filipino characteristics have?
3. What is the most important characteristics in your own?
4. Give at least 5 performance art.
 Read and analyze the questions properly. Write your
answers in ½ sheet of paper.

It’s important students practice identifying these shots and link to their developing
ANSWERS: knowledge of genre and narrative.

1. a special material that is used for taking photographs,, the process, art, or6…. Close-up (and extreme close-up)
business of making movies,, a thin layer on or over the surface of something Medium Close Up
2. Films Are Designed To Create Experiences. Mid-shot
3. CHOICES MADE IN MANY DIFFERENT AREAS: Mid-long shot
SCRIPTWRITING AND FUNDING, PREPRODUCTION, SHOOT, POSTPRODUCTION, Long shot
DISTRIBUTION AND EXHIBITION;
Wide (long) shot (often establishing shot)
FILMMAKERS CHOOSE WITHIN THE CONSTRAINTSFILMMAKERS CHOOSE WITHIN THE
CONSTRAINTS AND OPPORTUNITIES THEY ARE PRESENTED WITH AND OPPORTUNITIES THEY ARE PRESENTED WITH
Pan (side to side) Pan (side to side)
Tilt (up and down) Tilt (up and down)
Whip pan
Crane shot
Tracking shot
The end!!!