What is it?

Production vs. Product

 

Ladri di Biciclette / Bicycle Thieves

Bordwell and Thompson
- Mise-en-Scene
- Cinematography

Bazin "Bicycle Thief"

Tomasulo "Bicycle Thieves: A Re-reading"

Discussion of other works

Definition:

"putting into the scene"

- Survivor

Most memorable if
cinematic techniques

- Bicycle Thief

Realism

-Melies

 

Costume and Make-up:

Set scene

- Bicycle Thief,
Moulin Rouge, Titanic

Realism, and story

- Edward Scissorhands

 

Lighting:

Shadows

Features

- quality and relative intensity

- direction

- Classic Hollywood – 3 point lighting

-high key vs. low key

 

Staging: Movement and Acting

Figures

Being "realistic"

- Neorealism

- Truman Show

 

Putting It All Together: Space and Time

Space - movement, colour, composition, and depth

- Bicycle Thief

- aerial perspective

Time

- frontality

 

Cinematographic Qualities:

1. Photographic aspects
2. Framing
3. Duration

 

The Range of Tonal Qualities:
1. Film stock [contrast]
2. Exposure [filters]
3. Developing procedures [tinting]

Speed of Motion:
Rate film is shot vs. rate of projection
Fps
Optical printer

 

Perspective Relations:

1. Lens: focal length
2. Lens: depth of field [focus]
3. Special F/X
[superimposition/ matte]

 

Size and shape of frame

Onscreen and offscreen space

Distance, angle and heigth

Mise-en-scene

 

Frame Dimensions and Shape:
Aspect ratio
[widescreen/ anamorphic/ multiple-frame]

Onscreen and Offscreen space:
6 zones of offscreen space

 

Distance, Angle and height:
Straight-on/ high/ low
Level
Shot sizes
Functions of framing
[context of total film]

Mobile Framing [specific to video]:
Camera movement
Functions: space/ time/ patterns

 

Long take vs. long shot

Allied with mobile frame

 

‘It is our intelligence
that discerns and shapes it,
not the film.’ - Bazin

Tomasulo re-reading
‘Bicycle Thieves’

 

Events:

Ateleological narrative events?

Rain

Basement rehearsal

Pissing on Wall

Characters:

Wife

Bruno

Monks under shelter

Church Priests

Crowd

Ideology:

Constriction of interior locations

Social shots

Closing of doors/ shutters

Constricted shot opens up to deep space

Patriarchal family structure

Expels myth : Solidarity of the poor

Anticlerical

 

Production vs. Product

NeoRealism vs. Cinema Verite

- The Blair Witch Project (1999)

- Ronnie & Julie (1996)

- MTV Real World (1992 -)

- others

 

‘You live and you suffer.’
Antonio Ricci, Bicycle Thieves