Lecture week 5

1895 - The first movie ever made is "Workers Leaving The Lumiere

factory." It was the French Lumiere brothers who made it.

1897 - The first cinema was built in Paris.

1898 - The Lumiere's company had produced more than 1000 titles.

1903 - The first narrative film. It was Edward S. Porter who produced the 10 minutes long film "The great train robbery".

1905 - First real movie theaters, The Nickelodeons.

1906 - First full length feature film. Most sources says that it was "The story of the Kelly Gang" written and directed by Charles Tait.

1909 - The first movie palace.

1912 - The serials became very popular during the great war. The first American serial was "what happened to Mary?"

1913 -The birth of the "Studio system". A system of advanced planning and budgeting. It became easer for film-studios to produce more than one movie at the time.

1914 - Charlie Chaplin became the first movie star. His debut was the short comedy Making a Living.

1919 - In 8 years the number of full-length feature each year increased from 2-646.

1920 - The German Expressionism film "The cabinet of Dr. Caligari was released. This is maybe the most influential of all German Expressionism films. For Example: Film Noir, one of the earliest horror-films. It has also been a big influence for many other directors. Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Californiacation used the film as a reference for its music-video.

Tutorial week 5!

Todays task is a scavenger hunt! I love scavenger hunts. The Norwegian group ansa is having a scavenger hunt around Surfers in a couple of months! I'm really looking forward to that!

This is a a bit different tho. This is a Scavenger hunt on the internet, and were not allowed to use google or wikipedia!

SCAVENGER HUNT

1. What is the weight of the worlds biggest pumpkin?
- 1689 pounds.
http://www.pumpkinnook.com/giants/giantpumpkins.htm

2. What is the best way (quickest, most reliable) to contact Lilly Allen?
- Twitter...?

3. What is the length of a giraffes tongue?
- 18-inch/46cm
http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-giraffe.html

4. How would you define the world "glycomics"? In your own words, what does it really mean? what does the term "seagull manager" refer to?

http://www.griffith.edu.au/science/institute-glycomics/research/what-is-glycomics

5. What was David Cronenberg's first film?

6. When was the original hacker's manifesto written?
- It was written January 8, 1986.
http://adimitrov.net/main/docs/manifesto.html
http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/manifesto.html

7. Why do phone number in Hollywood start width "555"?
- In the old days the first three numbers in a phone number stood for the three first letters of the exchange name. 555 was the letters J K and L, and you cant make any English place names using these letters. Hollywood where therefore encouraged to use these numbers to prevent real subscribers being harassed by members of the public.
http://www.telephonecollecting.org/code.htm

8. What is the cheapest

9. What song was top of the Australian top chart this week in 1965?
- I couldn't find the Australian one. But the Norwegian one was: The Beatles - Help!
http://lista.vg.no/show_list.php?ListsOp=showWeek&week=33&year=1965&listID=1

10.

Tutorial week 3

Task: Find an explanation of the following terms: VLS/WS, LS, MLS, MCU, CU, BCU, ECU. Make sure your references and provide a bibliography to show you are starting to develop online research skills.

VLS/WS - very long shot/wide shot:

http://www.tv-handbook.com/Composition%20and%20Camera%20Movement.html

Shows for example a person in their surroundings. Can be used to show time. When does the story take place? Is it winter? Morning? Is it a long time ago... Can also be used to show where the story takes place.

LS - Long shot

http://www.mikebeardall.com/pics/wedding/bride%20stunning%20long%20shot.jpg

Shows the entire object or the whole person. Also called the establishing shot. The long shot shows the location the action takes place.

MLS -medium long shot

http://shinymedia.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/06/04/long_shot_2.jpg

Shows a person from the knees to right above the head.

MS - Mid shot

http://www.laurelnorth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/brde-mid-shot.jpg

Shows the subject preforming an action. What is the character doing?

MCU - medium close up

http://www.shillpages.com/dw/suttos06.jpg

Shows a person from below their troth to the above the head.

CU - close up

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/54/174143413_f73ff396fc.jpg

Shows details of the character. Who is he/she? Can also be used to show time.

BCU - big close up

http://www.treehugger.com/leonardo-dicaprio_2.jpg

Why is the character doing what he is doing? Shows feelings and reactions.

ECU - extreme close up

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumb_350/1231129082bb75Cg.jpg

Shows extreme details. You have to have good reason to use this shoot. Its to close to show emotions and reactions. Could be used in dramatic scenes.

http://www.mediacollege.com/video/shots/extreme-closeup.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_shot

http://images.google.no/imgres?imgurl=http://www.tv-handbook.com/images/Jeff%2520throwing%2520rock.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.tv-handbook.com/Composition%2520and%2520Camera%2520Movement.html&usg=__EBco3OalU3sPipQOxWMsFtyGAuE=&h=365&w=486&sz=16&hl=no&start=2&um=1&tbnid=pJBUnHc1F92R5M:&tbnh=97&tbnw=129&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwide%2Bshot%26hl%3Dno%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1

http://filmdirectingtips.com/archives/165

+ my lecture notes

Lecture week 3

CINE-SPEAK

- learning the language of the cinema.

SHOT SIZES:

(every shot in every film)

VLS/WS: Very long shot/Wide shot

LS: Long shot

MLS: Medium long shot

MS: Mid shot

MCU: medium close up

CU: Close up

BCU: Big close up

ECU: Extreme close up

THE STORY:

WHO?: CP -> character details

WHAT?: MS ->showing your character preform an action.

WHERE?: LS -> Establishing shot -> show the location the action takes place.

HOW? single MSU/series CU -> explain an event -> ex. pictures in a dark room.

WHY?: BCU -> revealing more about a character and their actions -> abject and persons.

WHEN?: WS+CU -> can be used to show time. Time can be a difficult thing to capture on the screen. Can use jump shoots.

Every shoot needs to have a purpose!

HEAD ROOM:

TALKING ROOM:

RULE OF THIRDS:

THE 180° RULE:

For example: Filming a football-mach -> all the cameras are placed on the same side. If not, it will be very confusing for the people who watch it on TV.

Lecture 2

HISTORY OF COMPUTING AND THE INTERNET

1950s – IBM first commercially produces computers. The machines were big, unwieldy and expensive. The machines was used by the military, government and corporate work

1960s – “The idea of internet”. Create a network who could survive a nuclear war.

1965 Moors law - the capacity of microchips doubles every two years.

1975 – first personal computer released. Bill Gates started writing BASIC for Alt Air, who could be used for simple applications. (Word processing, basic accounting, simple games) Gates started the company Microsoft in his garage.

1978 – Apple II was launched at the West Coast Computer Fair.

1979 – Apple bought an application that turned the PC from a toy to a business tool.

1980s – Microsoft windows released. IBM and Microsoft market leaders.

1990s – GNU/Linux a free operating system was released.

- The WorldWideWeb released.

Just for fun!

Haha look at this Chameleon! So cute, change colour as they switch raybans. It’s probably just a film trick but its funny anyways.

Convergent technology

4 examples of convergent technology. Load/display on your blog. 2 should be communication devices/technology. link the pictures and upload. And do a simple edit to the picture.

No 1:
You're memory stick don't have to be as boring as they use to be. They can be shaped as everything. Take a look at this cute cars.

No 2.


This is my favorite. You can use this beautiful heart as a necklace and a memory stick. That's very cleaver.

No 3.

Believe it or not, this isn't a regular watch. Its actually a mobile phone! If I had seen someone walking on the street talking to their watch, I would probably think that the person was a bit mad. But if it was mine I would feel like a secret agent.

No 4.

Skype app for Iphone let you call and text your skype friends for free. You do need 3G or a Wifee zone, but it is a really good idea for people like me who calls a lot overseas. With Skype on my Iphone I save a lot of money on texts and calls.

First lecture

I had to wake up way to early today. My lecture started at 8 am, but whit a cup of coffee everything was okay.

Todays lecture was mostly about what we are going to learn the next couple of months. (also subjects for this blog) Her is a small summary:

OLD COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY:

- oral

- graphic (caveman)

- written

- radio

- telephone

- television

NEW COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY:

- computer

- mobile phone

- internet