Key Terms and Concepts: (List Aphabetically with bulleted sub-points)

1. Collaborative Enterprises make it hard to determine who is responsible for what in a film.
2. The director is thought of as the dominant artist in the movie because everyone performs according to the his or her sensibility.
3. Films are also stamped by a famous star or talented editor.
4. Some directors are hands off and neglect the visual style of the film while others are on it…Hitchcock.
5. The style of the photography should be geared toward the story, theme, and mood of the film.
6. Studio era emphasized beautiful images and beautiful people but today this thought of as too restrictive.
7. Don’t shoot beautiful images just for the sake of the image…..form should be the embodiment of content.
8. Gordon Willis….low-key lighting master,… “what you don’t see is sometimes more important”…Godfather… dark with evil and secrecy
9. Remeber thart beautiful shooting doesn’t guarantee a movies success. Think of the Muriel's Wedding vs. Pearl Harbor

Review Questions: (Minimum of 5 critical thinking questions)


Reference Films: (Include Title and year of production and reason for reference.


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