Film technology (RM):

Hollywood emerged as movie hub because:

1. Land could be easily aquired since it was a desert back then.
2. Better business laws. Tax cuts.
Kinetoscope
Actors had to act slowly so as to match with the camera speed.
Blocking - cinematographer should decide the camera shot, angle, movement, lighting etc.

Charlie chaplin Eating machine: Chalin being fed scene:

1. Medium closeup
2. 3 point lighting for No shadows
3. Camera is looking down upon him from his right side..
4. Charlie is in focus.

Watch: Jamai babu, pithra pprem

Bokeh mode: blurring the background

180° rule:

Editing
- Continuity
- Montage - each frame is a symbol. Refer to (A very long engagement)

Film production workflow:

- Pre production
- production
- Post production

Audio effects:
- Diegetic sounds- sounds that come from inside the movie world
- Mainly dialogues
- Mes-en-scene sounds. Like the sound of jumping (on-screen). It also includes
off-screen sounds.
- Sounds create the sense of continuity in time. Sound-scapes.
- Non-diagetic sounds ​- from outside the movie. Like narration, background score.
- Good movies are able to mix diagetic and non-diagetic sounds very well.
- Watch: The Accordion by Jafar Panahi
28th Jan:
Importance of sound in horror.
- All sounds help in transitions.
- Sounds create the sense of space. Audience must be able to locate the source of the
sound. Otherwise the movie feels very flat.
- Horrors are supposed to scare a bunch of people for a short period of time. There is no
such thing as an everlasting horror.
- How audiences react to horror:
a. People all over the globe react in a similar way.
b. When there is a rising tension, some people laugh to fight the disturbance that
the film causes. The audience feels threatened they try to distance themselves
from the scene.
- Main characteristics of horror:
a. The threatened characters are always isolated from the rest.
b. Light, audio. Eerie lighting.
c. Boundaries - there is always an element of crossing boundaries. Eg. “don’t open
that door”, “don’t be rude to that person”, etc.
d. Expectation, frustration
e. Abnormal supernatural, bizarre, transgression.
f. Often , the audience knows what is going to happen but not the characters.
g. Horrors have a religious connection.

Diagetic Non-diagetic

Thrill - rising tension, keep the audience on Immersive

the edge of their seats.

Non-continuous Continuous

31st jan
- Mechanical special effects rather than computer generated.

The Exorcist:
- Fredkin didn't approach it as a horror film.
- Primarily made for the american audience, deeply religious story.
- He wanted to state the relevance of catholic society in a scientific community.
- Catholics support exorcism.
- Indians see god and devil as the same deity.
- Exorcism in india is very dramatic.
- Exorcism in catholic society.
 - Fredkin attacks the inherited religious assumptions. The horror is clearly visible to
catholics.
- A human must meet various criteria to be called possessed- change in behaviour,
change in voice, body changes, levitation, speak unknown languages,
- The devil makes the girl pollute herself. through sexual imagery.
- "This sow is mine"
- She violates the cross.
- No jumpscares. Pure drama.
- The Last Exorcism

For test
- Cinematography:
- mes-en-scene
- Film making process, editing (continuity, montage)
- Blocking
- What is a shot? Studio binder
- 180° rule.