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• French for “placing
on stage”
Taxi Driver
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• Frame dimensions
• Aspect Ratio
• 1:33:1 (Pre-1950’s &TV)
• 1:85:1 (standard)
• 2:35:1 (widescreen)
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• Dominant
– Where is our eye attracted first?
Bend It Like Beckham
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Silence of the Lambs
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• Subsidiary contrasts
– What are the main
eye-stops after
taking in thedominant?
Batman Begins
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Deuce Bigelow: European Gigolo
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• Lighting key
– High key?
– Low key?
– High contrast? – Some combination of
these?
The Philadelphia Story
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The Grifters
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• Shot and camera
proxemics
– What type of
shot?
– How far away is
the camera from
the action?
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Manhattan
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Collateral
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Austin Powers
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Red Eye
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Kill Bill
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• Color values
American Beauty
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Kill Bill
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Raging Bull
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2001: A Space Odyssey
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• Density
– How much visual
information is packed
into the image?
– Is the texture stark,
moderate, or highly
detailed?
The Scarlet Empress
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Drag Me to Hell
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The Godfather
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From Here to Eternity
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Hud
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• Composition – How is the two-
dimensional space
segmented and
organized? – What is the underlying
design?
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• Composition
– The Rule of Thirds
– From painters of the
Renaissance (14th century)
– Interest should be at theinterersecting lines as our
eyes do not go to the center
of a photograph
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The Departed
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Match Point
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Silence of the Lambs
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Training Day
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• Form
– Open or closed?
– Does the image
suggest a window
that arbitrarily
isolates a fragment
of the scene?
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…or a proscenium
arch, in which the
visual elements are
carefully arrangedand held in
balance?
The Departed
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Does the composition
suggest action or
confinement?
Beauty vs truth
Traffic
M
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Silence of the Lambs
•Framing
–Tight or loose?
Do the characters
have no room tomove around, or
can they move
freely without
impediments
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Silence of the Lambs
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The Grifters
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Double Indemnity
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The 400 Blows
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Double Indemnity
•Character proxemics
–How much space is
there between
characters?
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The Petrified Forest
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Broken Flowers
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The Wedding Crashers
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Notes on a Scandal
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• Midnight Cowboy
• Directed by John
Schlesinger
• Starring DustinHoffman, Jon Voight,
Sylvia Miles
• 1966
• Dir. Of Photography -Adam Holender
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• Originally rated X but seems tametoday
• First X-rated film to win Best PictureOscar
• Also won Best Director & Best
Screenplay• Dustin Hoffman (his 2nd film after
The Graduate) Jon Voight & SylviaMiles were also nominated
• In 2007, the American Film Instituteranked this as the #43 Greatest
Movie of All Time• “I’m walkin’ here…” was the only line
in the famous taxi-slamming sceneactually scripted
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