Basic Film Concepts Prepared by Jebbie E. Barrios as a lecture for Computer- Aided

Design and Visualization LPU_Cavite 2016-2017

There’s nothing more important than having solid, manageable and achievable plan for your conceptual goal

Planning a production

•Understanding the paradigm that conventional filmmakers use for their productions will give you a good structure for planning, creating, and managing your own projects.•Most narrative films are broken into act, which comprise sequences made up of scenes, which in turn are made up of shots.

Narrative films are typically divided into 3 acts.• The first act establishes the main characters and the conflict or struggle that will define the story.

• The second act covers most of the action of the story as the hero attempts to overcome this conflict.

The third act concludes the film by resolving the action in the story and tying up all the loose ends.

Acts can be deconstructed further into sequences, which are groups of sequential scenes that unite around a particular dramatic or narrative point.

A scene is a part of a film that takes place in a specific place or time with specific characters to present that part of the story. Films are broken into scenes for organizational purposes by their locations (that is, by where or when they take place).

Scenes are broken into shots, which correspond to a particular camera angle or framing.

Shots break up the monotony of a scene by giving different views of the scene and its characters. Shots are separated by cuts between its shot.

Shots are defined by angle of view, which is the point (POV) of the camera. Shots change as soon as the camera changed.

Lighting

Although CG lighting techniques may seem completely different from lighting in real life, the results are quite often the same. The more you understand how real lights affects your subjects in photography, the better you’ll be at CG lighting.

Without lights, you cant capture anything on film.

Acting

Is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play.Acting requires a wide range of skills, including vocal projection, clarity of speech, physical expressivity, emotional facility, a well-developed imagination, and the ability to interpret drama.

Acting

It also often demands an ability to employ dialects, accents and body language, improvisation, observation and emulation, mime, and stage combat. Many actors train at length in special programs or colleges to develop these skills, and today the vast majority of professional actors have undergone extensive training.

Editing

It is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible and film media used to convey information. The editing process can involve correction, condensation, organization, and many other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate and complete work.

Ideology

Ideologies are systems of abstract thought applied to public matters and thus make this concept central to politics. Implicitly every political or economic tendency entails an ideology, whether or not it is propounded as an explicit system of thought.The term "ideology" was born in the highly controversial philosophical and political debates and fights of the French Revolution, and acquired several other meanings from the early days of the First French Empire to the present.

Ideology

It is a set of conscious and unconscious ideas that constitute one's goals, expectations, and actions. An ideology is a comprehensive vision, a way of looking at things (compare worldview) as in several philosophical tendencies (see political ideologies), or a set of ideas proposed by the dominant class of a society to all members of this society (a "received consciousness" or product of socialization).

Movement- What is Movement in Film?

The camera blends visual conventions such as animation, sound effects, music and camera angles all enclosed in a single frame to create movement.Movement is the quality of suggesting motion in a work of art. In motion or moving pictures, one more element is involved than in a painting, a moving frame. That's the camera. It blends visual conventions, such as animation, sound effects, music, and camera angles, all enclosed within a single frame.

Cinema

The word “cinema” in English and other languages (cinematographe, kinema, kinemat) comes from the Greek word κινηση (kinesi), meaning “movement” and from kinein, meaning “to move.” That's how we get words like kinetic, kinesthetic, and choreography.

Photography It is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film, or electronically by means of an image sensor.

Sound In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as a typically audible mechanical wave of pressure and displacement, through a medium such as air, and water.

What is a story? What is narrative?• It is anything told or recounted; more narrowly, and more

usually, something told or recounted in the form of a causally-linked set of events; account; tale,: the telling of a happening or connected series of happenings, whether true or fictitious.

Writing

It is a medium of communication that represents language through the inscription of signs and symbols. In most languages, writing is a complement to speech or spoken language. Writing is not a language but a form of technology. Within a language system, writing relies on many of the same structures as speech, such as vocabulary, grammar and semantics, with the added dependency of a system of signs or symbols, usually in the form of a formal alphabet.

Writing

The result of writing is generally called text, and the recipient of text is called a reader.

Motivations for writing:includes publication, storytelling, correspondence and diary.

Writing has been instrumental in keeping history, dissemination of knowledge through the media and the formation of legal systems.

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