What Scares You?

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What Scares You?

• Monster Movies Today and Yesterday(Part 2)

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Making monsters Review

• What do you remember from last class?

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Myth

• A mythical monster with snakes for hair was
  named
• A Cyclops
• B Scylla
• C Medusa
• D Charybis
• Medusa

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Folklore

• Oriental Dragons are associated with
• A Caves Treasure
• B Water and Wisdom
• C Knights and Damsels
• D Evil and Death
• Water and Wisdom

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Folklore

• Vampires in folklore could be stopped by all but
  one method
• A Stake through heart.
• B Wolfsbane.
• C Beheading
• D Brick in mouth.
• Wolfsbane.

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Folklore

• True or False Werewolf stories were very common
  in England.
• False

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Folklore

• According to traditional folklore a werewolf does
  not change because of a full moon. What will
  cause him to change
• A Drinking a magic potion.
• B Being cursed by a witch
• C Eating bad cheese
• D Rubbing a salve (lotion) on his body.
• Rubbing salve on body

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Folklore

• Zombies are associated with what traditional
  belief system?
• A Vodou
• B Catholicism
• C Protestantism
• D Buddhism
• Vodou (Voodoo)

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Science Fiction

• The author of the early science fiction book
  20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was
• A H.G. Wells
• B Johannes Kepler
• C Jules Verne
• D Bram Stoker
• Jules Verne

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Science Fiction

• Mary Shelly wrote what well-known early science
  fiction book?
• A The War of the Worlds
• B Frankenstein
• C Journey to the Center of the Earth
• D The Terminator
• Frankenstein

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History and Technology 1900 195os
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Monster Movie History

• The first commercial motion picture was produced
  in 1898.
• By 1910 the first monster movie was made a 15
  minute silent film produced by the Edison Studios
  based on the Mary Shelly story Frankenstein. The
  film was thought lost for many years but has
  recently been found.

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Edisons Frankenstein
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Nosferatu

• First vampire film (Germany 1922). Based on
  Dracula book, but character names were changed
  because producers could not afford to by the
  rights.
• Movie introduced the idea the vampires would die
  if exposed to sunlight.

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Universal Monsters

• Universal Studios produced a series of
  horror/monster films starting in 1923 with The
  Hunchback of Notre Dame and included Dracula,
  The Mummy, The Wolf Man, Creature from the Black
  Lagoon and Frankenstein.

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Frankenstein (1931)

• Based on the Gothic Novel by Mary Shelly.
• Monster created by stitching together dead body
  parts and re-animating them with a lightning
  bolt.
• Monster turns against its creator.
• Monster dies, but is resurrected for the sequel.

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Frankenstein Its Alive!
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Classic Monster Movie Formula(Usually will
contain most, but not all)

• Written as a cautionary tale. Mans tampering
  with nature unleashes the creature to wreak
  man-made world.
• Warnings are disregarded.
• Heroine/love interest is
• menaced by the creature.
• Monster is often a sympathetic figure.
• Science/Technology is used to destroy creature.

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Frankenstein (Continued)

• The Movie and the Monster (played by Boris
  Karloff) became an cultural Icon.
• Film was followed by numerous sequels and
  parodies.
• Banned in Kansas.
• Distinctive flat-topped head neck bolts
  designed by makeup artist Jack Pierce.

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Horror Movie Makeup

• Jack Pierce created the
• make up for most of the
• Universal Monsters.
• Movie Makeup differs
• from theatrical makeup in
• that theatrical makeup is designed to help
  audiences see expressions at a distance.
• Movie makeup must be able to withstand an actors
  face being project on a 30 high screen.

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Frankenstein Makeup
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Frankenstein (Continued)

• Continues to be a cultural icon that shows up
  everywhere.

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Bride of Frankenstein(1933)

• Monster comes back to demand a mate.
• Considered to be one of the few films where the
  sequel surpasses the original.
• Director James Whale was able to demand full
  control of the picture.

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The Lost World (1925)

• Based on the Novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
• First major film to feature gigantic beasts
  like dinosaurs.
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Discussion Point

• How would you create giant monsters on the screen
  back in the 1920s before there were computer
  image processing?

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King Kong (1933)

• Classic Giant Beast Movie to which all other
  are compared.
• Willis O'Brien perfected his stop motion
  technique in this film.
• Producer Merian Cooper got the idea from an
  real-life expedition to bring a Komodo Dragon
  back to NYC.
• First Hollywood picture to have a full-length
  score. Also first to have a thematic score.
• Featured a break-through technique for rear
  projection using a plastic screen.

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Rear Projection

• Rear projection Puppet background, people
  foreground.
• Miniature projection People background, puppet
  foreground.

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Kong vs. the T-Rex
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Kong Small Large

• An 18 model was used stop motion production.
• A full sized bust and arm was built to interact
  with human actors.

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Classic Formula for King Kong

• Man takes Kong out of his natural environment and
  he escapes to tear up NYC.
• First mate (hero) is skeptical of the bringing
  Anne Darrow (heroine) on trip.
• Kong is fascinated by the blond Darrow and
  carries her to top of Empire State Building.
• New technology (Airplanes) kill him.

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Kong aftermath

• Broke box all box officer records and saved RKO
  studios from bankruptcy.
• Sequels Son of Kong, King Kong vs. Godzilla, King
  Kong Escapes, King Kong Lives.
• Remakes in 1976 2005.

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Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)

• First independent job by Ray Harryhausen.
• Nuclear bomb test in Arctic frees frozen
  dinosaur. Scientist tries to warn others of
  danger but is not believed. Beast arrives in NYC
  and tears up Coney Island.
• Hero uses radio-active material to kill beast.

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The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
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The Foghorn

• In 1951 Ray Bradbury wrote a short story about a
  dinosaur destroying a lighthouse.
• Producers of Beast like the idea and put it
  into the script, but didnt tell ( or pay)
  Bradbury.
• Later they forgot what they had done and hired
  Bradbury to rewrite the script!

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How Film Works

• Though we see continuous motion on the screen,
  film is actually made up of individual pictures
  that flash by 24 times a second.

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The Art of Stop Motion Photography

• Articulated models are filmed on miniature sets.
• As each new frame is photographed the models
  position is changed slightly.
• During playback the model seems to move by itself.

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A Demonstration of Stop Motion

• A live demonstration of stop motion.

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Example
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The Great Skeleton Fight
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Other Harryhausen Films

• It Came from Beneath the Sea, Earth vs. the
  Flying Saucers, 20 Million Miles to Earth, Clash
  of the Titans, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad,
  Mysterious Island, The Valley of Gwangi.

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Making a Movie

• The first step in making a movie is a story idea.
• The second step is a complete script.
• The producers of the film can raise money for the
  film using the script.
• Once the production is financed, one of the first
  things created is a storyboard.

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Storyboards

• Storyboards are a series of pictures, very much
  like a comic book, that allow the people making
  the film to see what it might look like.

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Storyboarding

• Storyboards are used to figure out what sets,
  costumes and camera equipment will be needed for
  each scene.
• They are also valuable for estimating the cost of
  the pictures.
• Very important for films that involve special
  effects like stop-motion or CGI monsters.

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Making a Monster Movie

• Brainstorm with your group to come up with a plot
  for your movie.
• Write them down as a series of bullet points (8
  to 10 points would be ideal).
• Story board your movie with one picture per
  bullet point.

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Homework

• Read The Wolves are at the Multiplex Door by
  next class.
• Dont for get to view your monster movie and do
  the associated study guide by the last class on
  Nov. 3th.

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Believe in Monsters!