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Lecture/Demo Creation of storyboards and how they relate to film Activity Discuss the ideas you have for your final film story. Assignment Create your own storyboard.  The Role of Storyboards As the screenplay evolves into a shooting script and camera information is developed, another important preproduction process begins. The director of the film works closely with an artist to visualize these shots. The auteur will work with the artist to create sketches of what the camera will actually see. This is very important because these images will act as a guide for all of the talented crew working on set. The sketches are called  storyboards . A storyboard is a graphic way to organize what you want to see in your film, shot by shot.  These are typically illustrations and can be quick sketches or highly detailed drawings incorporating perspective and lighting directions, as well as simulating what kind of lens behavior the director wants.  The original storyboards from...

ACTIVITY: Dailies, final cut, It Came From Beneath the Sea Lecture/Demo Early Color in Film Explore Color Wheel Discuss Color Grading Georges Méliès was an early innovator in filmmaking  who led many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema, known for the use of special effects,  popularizing such techniques as  substitution splices ,  multiple exposures ,  time-lapse photography , and dissolves. One of his hallmark achievements was to enhance his movies with color. The problem was that back then, film was only available in black and white. The solution was to hand-paint  every  frame of a film to get the following effect: With his background in theater, he considered color an important visual component on a stage, for actors' costumes, makeup, and set dressing. A decade later, director D.W. Griffith began making very influential feature-length films and was perhaps the first important auteur to make color a key part of the ...

The Early History of Cutting Film In Week 8, when we were introduced to film language, we learned about Georges Méliès and his clever film illusions. He was perhaps the best representative of what was known as the  cinema of attractions . Early on, when Méliès was testing the very first film camera he purchased as a budding filmmaker, he was on a busy street in Paris and was filming a bus full of people. Suddenly, his camera jammed for a moment, at which time the bus moved out of the camera's frame and was replaced by a hearse. When Méliès got the camera running again, he took this short footage home and developed it. He discovered something that amazed him and would quickly become his trademark. On the screen, the bus turned into a hearse! He witnessed the birth of the  jump cut . He also jumped (no pun intended) at the opportunity to immediately use this technique in his films, creating scenes with disappearing and reappearing effects. The jump cut became a creative way of m...

The simple dictionary definition of composition is this: "The action of putting together or combining." Obviously, for an artist, there is more to this idea, and the principles of composition are older than photography and cinema. Most of the concepts have been used for hundreds and hundreds of years in the world of painting. The painter always begins with a flat, two-dimensional canvas. But, by using line, shape, perspective, and light and dark values, magic happens. First photographers and later filmmakers took many techniques from painters and repurposed them in innovative ways. Stanley Kubrick, while making his period film  Barry Lyndon , studied the works of 18th-century painters Thomas Gainsborough and John Constable, specifically to recreate scene compositions for his film as if they were actual paintings. Let's look at some of the rules of composition: Rule of Thirds (we have already discussed) If you divide up a frame with two horizontal lines and two vertical li...