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• COM 160, Chapter 7 Lecture
• Mike Slefinger
• Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

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movies

• Film Acting
• Production Design
• Sound Design

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Film Acting

• Brief spurts
• Chronology
• Directors medium

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4 Types of Actors

• 1. Extras
• Generally used to provide a sense of a crowd
• a cast of thousands
• Used as part of landscape or set
• Less necessary as computer graphics improve

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4 Types of Actors

• 2. Nonprofessional Actors
• Amateur players
• Not necessarily great actors
• Look the part

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4 Types of Actors

• 3. Trained Professionals
• Actors with extended careers more than fame
• Variety of roles and styles
• Seem to disappear

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4 Types of Actors

• 4. Stars
• Famous, widely recognized
• Box Office Draw
• Star System
• Image Crafting

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Production Design

• Screenplay hints at how film should look
• Work should go unnoticed

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Jobs in Production Design

• Production Designer
• Art Director
• Construction Coordinator
• Set Decorator
• Lead Man
• Swing Gang
• Set Decorator

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Product Placement

• Overt
• Name/Slogan/Jingle repeated
• Newest Technology
• Subtle
• Products used within story
• Arguably, part of authenticity of location
• Promotional fees

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Sound Design

• Often overlooked
• Also supposed to go unnoticed
• Mostly postproduction

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Dolby Sound

• Multichannel
• 1976 Dolby Stereo

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Dolby Stereo
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Dolby Sound

• Multichannel
• 1976 Dolby Stereo
• 1992 Dolby Digital

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Dolby Digital
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Dolby Sound

• Multichannel
• 1976 Dolby Stereo
• 1992 Dolby Digital
• 1999 Dolby Digital Surround EX

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Dolby Digital Surround EX
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3 Types of Sound

• Dialogue
• Sound Effects
• Music

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1. Dialogue

• Speech
• Script/Character/Actor -specific
• Voice-Over Narration
• Closely associated with film noir of 40s and 50s
• ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement)
• About 30 of dialogue recorded during
  postproduction in a sound studio

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2. Sound Effects

• Ambient Sound
• Low-level sound produced by environment
• Foley Technique
• Live performance/recording of sound effects in
  synchronization with the picture
  
• Doppler effects
• Spatializing sound by altering its pitch

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3. Music

• Setting the Scene
• Adding Emotional Meaning
• Background Filler
• Creating Continuity
• Emphasizing climaxes

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Music Licensing

• Songs audiences already familiar with
• Preexisting emotional link
• Helps set scene
• Success can be reversed

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Wednesday

• Directing
• Marketing
• Special Effects
• Paper Assignment 2