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Marti, Cécile Marie. "Shakespeare on film : film editing and authorship : 'It is only in the editing room that the director has the power of a true artist'." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2006. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14705/.
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The purpose of the thesis is to question the hegemony of auteurist, director-based criticisms of Shakespearean films by rescuing the film-editor from anonymity. By drawing my attention to the determining, yet largely disregarded work of editorial creation, I offer a reading of a selection of Shakespearean films that acknowledges the centrality of collaborative work in representing Shakespeare on film. In order to recreate the editor as a 'collaborative auteur', I propose to trace the authorial signature(s) of the editore(s) by examining and identifying in which ways and according to which specific patterns the Shakespearean pre-texts are transformed into 'Shakespearean' film texts.
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McMillan, Matthew Christopher. "Editing the independent, digital feature film, mosaic." Queensland University of Technology, 2007. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16558/.
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The production of the independent, digital feature film titled Mosaic was performed on a very low budget. The design and implementation of the post-production of the film required consideration of budgetary constraints, and solutions to these constraints that would still allow the creative freedom of the editor and the director. The technical design was based around digital filmmaking technology. The choice of this technology influenced how the editor was able to address aesthetic and technical challenges.
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Su, Xin. "Ideas of film authorship : a study of theories and concepts of agency and subjectivity in film authorship, with a conclusion on the possible configuration of a future theoretical model of feminist film authorship." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2010. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1101.
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Smith, Tim J. "An attentional theory of continuity editing." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1076.
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The intention of most film editing is to create the impression of continuous action (“continuity”) by presenting discontinuous visual information. The techniques used to achieve this, the continuity editing rules, are well established yet there exists no understanding of their cognitive foundations. This thesis attempts to correct this oversight by proposing that “continuity” is actually what perceptual and developmental psychologists refer to as existence constancy (Michotte, 1955): “the experience that objects persist through space and time despite the fact that their presence in the visual field may be discontinuous” (Butterworth, 1991). The main conclusion of this thesis is that continuity editing ensures existence constancy by creating conditions under which a) the visual disruption created by the cut does not capture attention, b) existence constancy is assumed, and c) expectations associated with existence constancy are accommodated after the cut. Continuity editing rules are shown to identify natural periods of attention withdrawal that can be used to hide cuts. A reaction time study shows that one such period, a saccadic eye movement, occurs when an object is occluded by the screen edge. This occlusion has the potential to create existence constancy across the cut. After the cut, the object only has to appear when and where it is expected for it to be perceived as continuing to exist. This spatiotemporal information is stored in a visual index (Pylyshyn, 1989). Changes to the object’s features (stored in an object file; Kahneman, Treisman, & Gibbs, 1992), such as those caused by the cut, will go unnoticed. A duration estimation study shows that these spatiotemporal expectations distort due to the attention withdrawal. Continuity editing rules show evidence of accommodating these distortions to create perceived continuity from discontinuous visual information. The outcome of this thesis is a scientific understanding of filmic continuity. This permits filmmakers greater awareness of the perceptual consequences of their editing decisions. It also informs cognitive scientists of the potential of film as an analogue for real-world perception that exposes the assumptions, limitations, and constraints imposed upon our perception of reality.
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Hager, Steven Christopher. "An Incompatibility between Intentionalism and Multiple Authorship in Film." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/philosophy_theses/57.
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The multiple authorship view for film is the claim that multiple authors exist for almost any given film. This view is a recent development in opposition to the longstanding single authorship view which holds that there is only one author for every film, usually the director. One of the most often-cited reasons in support of the multiple authorship claim is that multiple authorship views more successfully explain the following fact about filmmaking better than single authorship views: filmmakers’ intentions sometimes conflict with each other during the production of a film. However, since multiple authorship views cannot adequately explain how a single filmic utterance can result from conflicting intentions, I want to argue that the single authorship view should be reinstated in those special cases where two or more agents are involved in the production of a filmic utterance and where the intentions of those agents are incompatible.
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Houseton, Fran. "Saved By the Edit." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/505.
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Marshall, Matt, and n/a. "GHOST STORIES WITHOUT GHOSTS: A STUDY OF AUTHORSHIP IN THE FILM SCRIPT ?THE SEABORNE?" University of Canberra. n/a, 2008. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20090106.150522.
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In 'The Crypt, the Haunted House of Cinema', Cholodenko argues that film is,
metaphorically speaking, a haunted house: an instance of the uncanny. This raises the
possibility the film script is also uncanny, from the Freudian notion of das Unheimliche,
the strangely familiar and familiarly strange - and thus also a haunted house. This
proposition engenders a search as self-reflexive practice for that which haunts the script'
an uncanny process to explore the uncanny. The search requires drawing on Barthes,
acting 'as dead' with that process' attendant contradictions and problematics' the most
likely ghost in the script being the writing self.
Establishing the characteristics of the writing self involves distinguishing that figure from
the author. This requires outlining the development of theories of the author from the
concept of authorial will, as per the argument of Hirsch, to the abnegation of the author as
a philosophical certainty. Barthes and Foucault call this abnegation the death of the
author. Rather than that marking the end of a particular branch of analysis, the death of
the author can be considered an opening to the writing practice. From this perspective,
the death of the author becomes a strategy in Foucault's game of writing, effecting the
obfuscation of the writing self, by placing a figure as dead, the author figure, within the
metaphorical topography of the text. Indeed, the author as dead is akin to a character in
the narrative but at a substratum level of the text. What places this dead figure within the
text is an uncanny writing self, a figure of transgression, brought into being in the
experience of Blanchot's essential solitude.
'The Seaborne' written by Matt Marshall, provides an example of a film script that
constitutes a haunted house, a site of the uncanny. In terms of the generic characteristics
of the film script as text type, its relative unimportance in relation to any subsequent film
based on the script becomes of itself a feature of the film script. This makes the film
script a site of negotiation and contestation between the implied author as hidden director
on the one hand and the implied reader as implied director on the other. This confirms
the film script as, using Sternberg's terminology, a blueprint text type. Examples of the
negotiation and relationship between hidden director and implied director are found in
analysis of 'The Seaborne' as are the tensions in the relationship between the
individualistic impulses of the hidden director and the mechanistic, formal requirements
of the text type as blueprint. These tensions are ameliorated by the hidden director who
is then effaced within the constructed layers of the film script text to allow interpretive
space for the implied director.
'The Seaborne' as representative of the film script text becomes the after-image of a
written text and the foreshadowing of a future filmic one. It therefore never finds
completion within its own construction process and its formation begins in templates that
accord with the Bakhtin's description of the epic, as is shown by comparing the
construction notes for 'The Seaborne' with Aristotlean dramatic requirements. But at the
same time there is present in 'The Seaborne' a Bakhtinian dialogism that points towards
the individual markers of a writing self. This writing self, referring to Kristeva, is a
figure of abjection. It transgresses itself and transgresses its own transgressions. It is a
ghost in a ghost story without ghosts.
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Spicer, Paul. "The films of Kenji Mizoguchi : authorship and vernacular style." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2011. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-films-of-kenji-mizoguchi(8f7ad266-b2bd-4199-acbd-cba4263b6c89).html.
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This thesis explores the work of Japanese film-maker Mizoguchi Kenji (1898-1956) through an analysis of key film texts in their social, cultural and industrial contexts. Since coming to international prominence in the 1950s, Mizoguchi has been placed in western accounts of Japanese cinema, alongside Kurosawa and Ozu, as one of that country’s most celebrated auteurs. As we shall see, this positioning has tended to cast Mizoguchi in a certain critical light which has subsequently been challenged from different perspectives. Mizoguchi’s film career, which began in 1923, spanned the silent era and sound films, continued under Imperialist rule (1930-1945) and the American occupation (1945-1952), but gained world attention only in the last four years of his life. His life and films have since been the subject of academic studies, festival retrospectives and television documentaries, both in Japan and in the west (notably the United States). He is acclaimed, like Federico Fellini, Satyajit Ray and Ingmar Bergman, as one of the handful of film-makers who have had a profound influence upon world cinema, although in the west his reputation has remained under the shadow of his better-known countrymen Kurosawa and Ozu. This study will seek to critique rather than celebrate that legacy. But Mizoguchi’s career as a whole also has much to tell us about the history of Japanese cinema and its relationship to culture and society. And in re-focussing critical attention upon the context which informed his work, this thesis will offer a re-appraisal of his auteurist status, and suggest new ways of considering the issue of authorship.
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Pelling, Kate. "Select, reject, reconfigure : editing speech in artists' direct address to camera." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2016. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/10825/.
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This practice-based thesis offers a new approach to editing processes that take place during the recording and subsequent editing of an individual speaking directly to a camera. Rosalind Krauss identified all performance to camera as narcissistic (1976), which includes the subset of artists’ direct address to camera, and since then the area has been widely understood within a psychoanalytical framework. This new approach provides a non-psychoanalytical perspective on direct address to camera, taking into account linguistic self-editing during the generation of speech (Skinner, 1957, p. 370) and technological editing processes once the speech has been recorded. While ‘artists’ film and video is a distinct form of cultural practice with its own autonomy’ in relation to mainstream film (Rees, 1999, p. vii), editing practices within the field of artists’ direct address to camera show no such independence and widely adopt techniques and terminology from the mainstream canon. I consider ways that the language and practice of editing can be expanded beyond the mainstream, and I introduce a transdisciplinary approach to the editing of speech, which is between, across and ‘beyond all disciplines’ (Nicolescu, 2008, p. 2). My practice plays a major role in developing a context for this enquiry. I use the video process, artist’s books, transcription, drawing and text to add to the existing vocabulary of mainstream editing. I create a new technique called blindediting, which involves cutting out video material without looking at it. Finally, I discuss my publication A Relational [Video] Grammar: Extrapolation (2013) which illustrates my transdisciplinary approach and explores the new language that I have developed for editing speech. My research provides a new perspective on the editing of speech in artists’ direct address to camera and suggests that a transdisciplinary understanding of editing practices can shed light on existing works within artists’ film and video.
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Powers, Michael A. "Double Visions--Separating Gordon Lish's Edits from Raymond Carver's Original Authorship in Three Stories." Thesis, Connect to resource online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/1856.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2008.Title from screen (viewed on August 28, 2009). Department of English, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Robert Rebein. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-85).
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Orpen, Valerie Anne. "Splicing emotion : the expressive dimensions of editing in the sound film." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.340096.
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Blazevic, Sasha, and Carl Johan Kesten. "Editing within The Thriller Genre." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för teknik och estetik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-21915.
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Thriller är en favoritgenre för många och har funnits längre än de flesta tror. Ursprungligen som en litteraturgenre har den utvecklats till en av de mest eftertraktade genrerna inom film. Tidiga anmärkningsvärda verk som Alfred Hitchcocks filmer i mitten av 1900-talet har banat vägen för genren och utformat dess redigering och cinematografi till vad vi har idag. Trots sin ödmjuka början i mitten av 1900-talet lyckas teknikerna, även om dem är aningen repetitiva, fortfarande vara relevanta idag och har bara utvecklats med åren. I den här artikeln studerar vi grunderna inom thrillergenren, redigerings- och filmtekniker som används; kameraarbete, klippning, PoV och färgsättning. I denna studie är vårt huvudsakliga fokus att förstå varför dessa tekniker används. Utöver kommer vi också gå djupare in i thrillergenren i helhet och trots genrens repetitivitet, försöka förstå oss på varför den lyckas vara relevant idag och hur redigering och cinematografi spelar en stor roll för att förstärka känslorna i thrillers där dessa tendenser härrör från.Thriller is a favourite genre to many and has been around for longer than most think. Originally starting as a genre of literature, it has evolved into one of the most sought after genres within film. Early notable works such as Alfred Hitchcock's films in the mid 1900s have paved the way for the genre and solidified it’s editing and cinematography into what we have today. Despite its humbling beginnings in the mid 1900s the techniques, although somewhat repetitive, still manage to stay relevant today and have only gotten more advanced with time. In this article, we study the fundamentals within the thriller genre, the editing and cinematography techniques that are utilized; camera framing, cutting, PoV and color. In this study our main focus we intend to work towards is understanding why these techniques are used and the tendencies in which they are facilitated. Although we also intend to go in depth into the thriller genre as a whole and despite the repetitiveness of the genre, why it manages to stay relevant today and how editing and cinematography plays a big part in amplifying the emotions and feelings associated within thrillers in which these tendencies stem from.
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Mikael, Johansson. "Videoproduktion : En rapport om produktionsprocessen av beställningsfilm." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för naturvetenskap, miljö och teknik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-25790.
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Denna rapport beskriver produktionsprocessen för framtagandet av två filmer till ett svensktupplevelseföretag. Filmernas syfte är att informera potentiella kunder vad de kan förvänta sig. Dessa filmer ska efter leverans implementeras på upplevelseföretagets hemsida. Rapporten visar olika steg i processen från beställning till leverans samt de metoder somanvänds för att nå det resultat beställaren önskar. Projektet resulterade i två filmer, från två olika upplevelser, som efter leverans implementerades på upplevelseföretagets hemsida.The aim of the project is to use different theories to deliver films to meet the demands and desires that the client has. This report describes the production process for the production of two films to a Swedish experience-company. The films purpose is to inform potential customers what kind of experience they can expect. These films will after delivery be implemented on experience company website. The report shows the various steps in the process from order to delivery, and the methods used to achieve the results the client wants. The project resulted in two films from two different experiences, who after delivery was implemented on the experience-company website.
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Stevens, Grant William. "The space of editing : playing with difference in art, film and writing." Queensland University of Technology, 2007. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16361/.
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This research project explores the creative and critical functions of editing in art, film and writing. The written component analyses the histories and discourses of 'cutting and splicing' to examine their various roles in processes of signification. The artistic practice uses more speculative and open-ended methods to explore the social 'languages' that inform our inter-subjective experiences. This project argues that editing is a creative methodology for making meaning, because it allows existing symbolic systems to be appropriated, revised and rewritten. By emphasising the operations of spacing, questioning and play, it also identifies editing as an essential tool for critically engaging with the potentials of art and theory.
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Baumeister, Anja. "The development of a practical model for the editing of theses and dissertations." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86477.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Theses and dissertations constitute a substantial platform for the documentation and dissemination of research findings, and the professional presentation of such findings is crucial for maintaining scientific integrity. Highly effective fact finders may lack writing skills and experience, or they may simply encounter barriers when expressing ideas, and thus perhaps inadequately present what they have so adequately found. In short, adequate editing of theses and dissertations is essential. Whereas a multitude of guidelines is available for thesis and dissertation writing, there is little guidance available on the editing of such works. Thus, with the latter objective in mind, this thesis is dedicated to developing a practical model to editing postgraduate research papers. Despite a notable lack of theory in the field of thesis editing, which became apparent while reviewing the respective literature, the most suitable sources of theory were selected to provide a basis for developing a model for thesis editing. These sources, combined with insights from a practical dissertation editing assignment, allowed for the design of a model for the practical editing process of postgraduate research texts. The editing model is based on a process-oriented approach, i.e. one which focuses on the learning process of the student. Moreover, the model promotes a level of editorial intervention that conforms to the current perception of ethical intervention in thesis editing. Ethical intervention is currently being negotiated against the backdrop of such standards as the purpose of thesis writing as well as the requirement of originality of theses and dissertations. In a testing phase the model was applied in a thesis editing assignment and emerged as a valuable guide in the process of editing. It also proved practicable in all its major aspects. Nevertheless, since a single testing assignment is not sufficient to prove the general practicality of any model, the model is still to be considered a prototype and may have to undergo further refinement after additional comprehensive testing.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Tesisse en verhandelinge is 'n belangrike basis vir die optekening en verspreiding van navorsingsbevindinge, en die professionele aanbieding van sodanige bevindinge is noodsaaklik vir die behoud van wetenskaplike integriteit. Tog is kom hoogs doeltreffende navorsers soms minder bedrewe of ervare skrywers, of hulle bloot voor hindernisse te staan wanneer hulle hul gedagtes moet verwoord, wat tot die ontoereikende aanbieding van bevredigende bevindinge lei. Kortom die toereikende redigering van tesisse en verhandelinge is van die allergrootste belang. Hoewel daar etlike riglyne vir die skryf van tesisse en verhandelinge bestaan, is daar weinig leiding beskikbaar vir die redigering daarvan. Gedagtig hieraan is hierdie tesis daarop toegespits om 'n praktiese model vir die redigering van nagraadse navorsingstekste te ontwikkel. Ondanks 'n merkbare gebrek aan teorie op die gebied van tesisredigering, wat baie duidelik uit 'n oorsig van die betrokke literatuur blyk, is die mees toepaslike teoretiese bronne as grondslag vir die ontwikkeling van 'n model vir tesisredigering gekies. Met behulp van hierdie bronne, tesame met die insigte verkry uit 'n praktiese redigeeropdrag, kon 'n praktiese model vir die redigering van nagraadse navorsingstekste ontwerp word. Die redigeermodel berus op 'n prosesgerigte benadering, dit wil sê 'n benadering wat op die student se leerproses konsentreer. Daarbenewens argumenteer die model ten gunste van redaksionele ingrepe wat met huidige opvattings oor etiese tesisredigering strook. Dit geskied teen die agtergrond van die huidige gesprek oor etiese intervensie, wat onder meer teen die agtergrond van standaarde soos die doel van die tesis sowel as die oorspronklikheidsvereiste vir tesisse en verhandelinge gevoer word. Die model is tydens 'n toetsfase in 'n tesisredigeringsopdrag toegepas en blyk nuttige riglyne vir die redigeerproses te bied. Ook het al die kernkomponente daarvan geblyk prakties bruikbaar te wees. Aangesien 'n enkele toetsopdrag nie voldoende is om die algemene bruikbaarheid van 'n model te bewys nie, word die model steeds as 'n prototipe beskou en dit sal waarskynlik ná bykomende omvattende toetsing verder verbeter word.
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Nack, Frank-Michael. "AUTEUR : the application of video semantics and theme representation for automated film editing." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.337123.
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Heslinga, Margaretha Elizabeth. "The significance of editing techniques in the adaptation of play texts into film." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86533.
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Thesis (MDram)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis sets out to provide comparative analyses of selected play texts and their film adaptations in order to demonstrate the significant role that editing techniques play in translating the play text’s dramatic elements into the visual language of film. The purpose of a film adaptation is to present a new interpretation of the play text that audiences will find engaging. In order to establish how the film medium is potentially able to enhance or alter the audience’s understanding of the original source text, the study turns to the field of semiotics to determine how the play text’s themes, plot and characters – embodied in a verbal sign system – are adapted into the audio-visual sign system of film. While cinematography, production design and music are critical elements in film making, editing can be regarded as the distinctive and fundamental signifying practice in the construction of meaning in a film. This will be the point of departure in analysing how meaning is “translated” from one sign system into another in the process of adaptation. By manipulating the key relations between shots, editing is able to guide the audience’s understanding of the film narrative, amplify character development, and generate intellectual and emotional responses. Different editing conventions have therefore been developed to amplify the dramatic effect of the narrative and the filmmaker’s vision. The different effects that editing conventions create in the interpretation of a play text are demonstrated by comparing two cinematic versions of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The use of continuity editing techniques in Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet is compared to Baz Luhrmann’s use of modern MTV conventions in his William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996). Zeffirelli and Luhrmann both employ different editing conventions to amplify their “readings” of Shakespeare’s play text, thereby presenting an adaptation that their target audience will find engaging. The film adaptations of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet therefore demonstrate the significance of different editing techniques in conveying meaning within a specific reception context. The series of reinterpretations of Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin (1939) illustrates how editing techniques are able to transfer Isherwood’s themes and political commentary on the rise of Nazism in Weimar Berlin across various texts and mediums, which include the film adaptation I am a Camera (1955) directed by Henry Cornelius, the Broadway musical Cabaret (1966) directed by Joe Masteroff, and finally Bob Fosse’s musical film Cabaret (1972). The comparative analyses of the above-mentioned source texts and their subsequent film adaptations demonstrate how different editing techniques are able to highlight new perspectives on the source material. Editing conventions are therefore highly significant in the creation of cinematic representations of the play text as they lead audiences to “read” the dramatic narrative within new contexts, using the visual language of film to create new insights that will complement the audience’s understanding and appreciation of the play.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Vergelykende analises tussen gekose speeltekste en hul verwerkings vir film word in hierdie tesis uiteengesit om die betekenisvolle rol wat redigeertegnieke in die vertolking van die speelteks se dramatiese elemente in die visuele styl van die film speel, te demonstreer. Die doel met ’n filmverwerking is om ’n nuwe interpretasie van die speelteks aan te bied wat gehore vasgevang sal hou. Om te bepaal hoe die filmmedium die gehoor se begrip van die oorspronklike teks potensieel kan versterk of verander, gebruik hierdie studie die veld van semiotiek om vas te stel hoe die speeltekste se temas, intrige en karakters – beliggaam in ’n verbale simboolstelsel – aangepas word in die oudiovisuele simboolstelsel van die film. Terwyl filmfotografie, produksie-ontwerp en musiek kritiese elemente in die vervaardiging van films is, word redigering as die onderskeidende en fundamentele belangrike praktyk in die konstruksie van betekenis in ’n film geag. Hierdie is die vertrekpunt in die analisering van hoe betekenis “vertaal” word van een simboolstelsel na ’n ander tydens die verwerkingsproses. Redigering kan deur middel van manipulering van die sleutelverwantskappe tussen skote die gehoor lei om die narratief van die film te verstaan, karakterontwikkeling uit te brei en intellektuele en emosionele reaksies te skep. Onderskeie redigeerkonvensies is dus ontwikkel om die dramatiese effek van die narratief en die filmvervaardiger se visie te versterk. Die verskillende resultate wat deur middel van hierdie tegnieke in die interpretasie van ’n speelteks verkry word, word toegelig deur die twee filmweergawes van William Shakespeare se Romeo and Juliet te vergelyk. Die gebruik van kontinuïteit-redigeertegnieke in Franco Zeffirelli se 1968 filmverwerking van Romeo and Juliet word vergelyk met Baz Luhrmann se gebruik van moderne MTV-konvensies in sy William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996). Beide Zeffirelli en Luhrmann gebruik verskillende redigeerkonvensies om hulle “lees” van Shakespeare se speelteks toe te lig en daarmee ’n verwerking wat hulle teikengehoor vasgevang sal hou, te bied. Die filmverwerkings van Shakespeare se Romeo and Juliet demonstreer dus die belang van verskillende redigeertegnieke in die oordra van betekenis binne ’n spesifieke konteks waarin dit ontvang word. Die reeks herinterpretasies van Christopher Isherwood se Goodbye to Berlin (1939) illustreer hoe redigeertegnieke in staat is om Isherwood se temas en politieke kommentaar aangaande die opkoms van Nazisme in Weimar Berlyn oor verskeie tekste en mediums oor te dra. Insluitend hierby is die filmverwerking I am a Camera (1955) onder regie van Henry Cornelius, die Broadway musiekblyspel Cabaret (1966) onder regie van Joe Masteroff, en laastens Bob Fosse se musiekfilm Cabaret (1972). Die vergelykende analise van bogenoemde tekste en hul daaropvolgende filmverwerkings demonstreer hoe verskillende redigeertegnieke nuwe perspektiewe op die oorspronklike materiaal na vore kan bring. Redigeerkonvensies is uiters betekenisvol in die skep van filmiese voorstellings van die speelteks aangesien die gehoor daarmee gelei word om die dramatiese narratief binne nuwe konteks te “lees” deur gebruik te maak van die visuele styl van die film om nuwe insig te skep wat die gehoor se verstaan en waardering van die stuk aanvul.
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Swenberg, Thorbjörn. "Framing the Gaze : (Audio-) Visual Design Intentions and Perceptual Considerations in Film Editing." Doctoral thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-35769.
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The theme for this doctoral thesis focuses on how a film editor strives actively to perceptually frame and direct the film viewer’s gaze across film edits. The editor’s (audio-)visual intentions concerning the film viewing correspond to perceptual considerations that the editor makes during film editing. Film editing in this thesis is considered as a kind of design work, foremost motivated by the possibilities of many new approaches, questions, and answers that a design perspective brings, stretching well beyond what previously adopted perspectives have done. The research questions asked, as well as the presented results, are discussed with regard to design theory, established film production field knowledge, and perception research. Apart from considering audiovisual perception in a film editing context, film editing is also discussed as audiovisual design, and tentative implications for the role of perception in other kinds of design work are pointed out. The results of my analyses are that there is reason to consider parts of film production as design work; that properties of an audiovisual material affect the creative space; that perceptual considerations are a significant part of the film editor’s treatment of the audiovisual material; that film viewers’ response to film edits varies with the shape of the edits; and that this variation is possible to link with the film editor’s intention regarding the edits, as well as to the degree of fulfillment of the intention. I conclude that perceptual precision at the edit point is decisive for attaining a desired film-viewing decoding of a film sequence, and that when the perceptual precision is low, it is likely that the perceived continuity of the film fails. The contribution of this doctoral thesis is that it drives the investigation of actual appliance of perception as audiovisual knowledge in film editing. Hence, it also adds to the more general discussion on perception as part of audiovisual thinking, and how audiovisual knowledge is formed. The thesis contributes to the area of Innovation and Design through its mix of methods, since the main study considers the creation of new artefacts, the thinking going on during that process, as well as human responses to the artefacts. Conclusively, the thesis provides a thorough example of how a design research perspective can add to the understanding of film production, and its trades and activities.Temat för denna doktorsavhandling är hur det går till när en filmklippare aktivt strävar emot att perceptuellt fånga in och styra sin filmtittares blick över filmklipp. Klipparens (audio-)visuella intentioner med filmtittandet motsvaras av perceptuella överväganden som klipparen gör under klipparbetet. Klipparbetet motiveras i denna avhandling som ett designarbete, främst för att ett designperspektiv på filmproduktion har möjligheter att bidra med många nya infallsvinklar, frågeställningar och svar, som sträcker sig bortom vad tidigare tillämpade perspektiv gör. De forskningsfrågor som ställs, och de svar som presenteras, diskuteras sedan gentemot designteori, etablerad filmproduktionskunskap och perceptionsforskning. Utöver att audiovisuell perception beaktas inom filmklippningskontexten, diskuteras även filmklippning som audiovisuell design, och kopplingar görs till annat designarbete och möjliga implikationer för perceptionens roll i dessa sammanhang. Data om klipparbetet har skapats via videoinspelade deltagande observation där även fortlöpande skärminspelningar skett, medan en filmklippare färdigställde en dokumentärfilmsekvens. Utifrån dessa inspelningar har sedan en elicitering med filmklipparen skett. På så vis har klipparens intentioner och möjliga beaktande av perceptuella faktorer fångats in. Klipparens intentioner avseende filmtittare har sedan testats via ögonrörelsestudier där tittarnas ögondata samlats in medan de tittat på den skapade filmsekvensen. Resultaten av mina analyser är att det finns skäl att betrakta delar av filmproduktion som designarbete, att audiovisuella materialegenskaper påverkar det kreativa utrymmet, att perceptuella hänsyn ingår som en väsentlig del av filmklipparens bearbetning av det audiovisuella materialet, att filmtittares respons på filmklipp varierar med hur klippen är utformade, samt att man kan koppla denna variation till filmklipparens intention med klippen, och graden av intentionens uppfyllelse. Jag drar slutsatserna att perceptuell precision i klippunkten är avgörande för att uppnå en önskad avkodning av en filmsekvens för tittarens del, samt att när den perceptuella precisionen är låg är det troligt att den upplevda kontinuiteten hos filmen fallerar. Doktorsavhandlingens bidrag är att den hjälper till att reda ut den faktiska tillämpningen av perceptionen som audiovisuell kunskap i filmklippning. Men den bidrar därmed även till en mera generell diskussion om perception som en del av audiovisuellt tänkande och formerandet av audiovisuell kunskap. Avhandlingen bidrar till området Innovation och Design genom sin blandning av metoder, eftersom huvudstudien rör skapandet av nya artefakter och tänkande som pågår inom denna process, liksom mänsklig respons på dessa artefakter. Slutligen bidrar avhandlingen med ett genomgripande exempel på hur ett designforskningsperspektiv kan bidra till att förstå delar av filmproduktion, och de yrken och aktiviteter som sker där.
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Daneau, Daniel. "THE ATTIC DOOR: A FEATURE LENGTH MOTION PICTURE." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2224.
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THE ATTIC DOOR is the feature-length film co-written and directed by Danny Daneau while pursuing a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Central Florida. Many challenges had to be met to produce a feature-length motion picture utilizing digital technology on an ultra-low budget as part of a graduate education. Beyond gaining a profound understanding of the physical, financial, and emotional strength it takes to complete a feature-length motion picture, Daneau experienced the creative challenges that all filmmakers must meet when applying the principles of filmmaking theory to an actual work of self-expression. The production process for an original narrative film under the guidelines established by the university has pushed him to make a motion picture that is both a highly personal work of film art and evidence of the educational journey he has taken for the past three years.M.F.A.
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Falconi, James. "...COME IL VENTO ATTRAVERSO UN PAESAGGIO DESOLATO AND THE USE OF FILM EDITING CONCEPTS IN MUSIC COMPOSITION." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2013. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/235377.
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...come il vento attraverso un paesaggio desolato, a composition for chamber orchestra in one movement (about 19-20 minutes in duration), demonstrates a personal method for writing instrumental music--one that mimics filmmaking processes. Using my own fictional narrative as a guide, I created the piece as a series of scenes made up of musical images. Within each image, I organize the musical materials as a filmmaker organizes elements of the mise en scène. Exploring the parallels between these two media further, I cut from one image to another, manipulating the music with the mindset of a film editor. This paper is divided into six chapters. Chapter 1 provides background on the genesis of my approach to instrumental music composition. Chapter 2 offers personal observations on film editing and narrative. Chapter 3 is a brief discussion of connections between film editing and instrumental music. Chapter 4 is an examination of narrative in instrumental music. Chapter 5 explores the concept of the musical image. Chapter 6 is an analysis of ...come il vento attraverso un paesaggio desolato, including: the use of narrative, the translation of mise en scène to the musical image, the translation of film editing concepts to organize musical ideas, my choices in timbre and instrumentation, and, finally, a conclusion on this approach to composition.
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Stephenson, Amanda. "The constructions of authorship and audience in the production and consumption of children's film adaptations." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2016. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/393687/.
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In the public consumption of film adaptations of popular children’s literature, which is, particularly in relation to the popular press, influenced by the marketing communications of the filmmaking team, the discursive negotiation of author and audience constructs is pivotal in the endeavor to side-step or manage the seemingly unavoidable discourses of fidelity. In this, child audiences are imagined and constructed in a variety of ways; however, these constructions generally have very little to do with actual children and much more to do with how the filmmakers wish/need to manage and negotiate the significance of both book and film authors. This area is largely unexplored in adaptation studies, for whilst the topic of fidelity proliferates the discipline, its function as a marketing tool - as well as its links to how author(s) and audience(s) are imagined and constructed - needs further investigation. What is clear in the following case studies is that the representations of audience(s) vary depending on the culturally understood personas of the author(s) at hand, therefore as the representation of the various book and film authors shift from case study to case study, so does the representation of the audience. In Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone, J.K. Rowling is deemed to be the primary authorial presence, and the audience are imagined as a cohesive, loyal group of avid readers. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Tim Burton and Roald Dahl are equally significant (despite the lack of Dahl’s physical presence) because they are both deemed to be outsiders, much like the audience members are all (implicitly and paradoxically) also deemed to be. In The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, Andrew Adamson is unable to compete with the emotional attachment many adult journalists and critics have to the book, and the result of this is that the discursive presence of the child audience is largely absent. All of these films were within a few years of each other, yet the ‘child,’ childhood more generally, and the intended audience are all constructed in very di erent ways demonstrating that what is important to those promoting (and often those consuming) a film is a solid author construct, and any discussions of children or child audiences only serves to validate these author figures.
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Aldstadt, David. "Imaginary co-signatures: collaboration, authorship, and star personae in films by Marcel Carne with Arletty and by Jean Cocteau with Jean Marais." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1371473066.
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Anson, Tylyn S. "If Not Now: An Account of the Challenges and Experiences of Writing, Directing, and Editing a Graduate Thesis Film." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1958.
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In this paper, I will catalog and describe my process involved in the creation of my thesis film If Not Now. In the main body of the paper I will cover the topics of Writing, Casting, Directing, Production Design, Cinematography, Editing, and Sound, as well as Technology and Workflow. Special emphasis will be placed on Writing, Directing, Editing, and Sound. The Analysis section will discuss the overall effectiveness of my goals to communicate a story about self-identity and community, as well as the film's artistic merit and quality.
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Gustafson, Fredrik. "Elicitation of emotions in advertising film : Analysis of the emotional response regarding different lengths of an emotionally based narrative commercial." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Institutionen för kultur och samhälle, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-36789.
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In a world that is moving towards more mobile viewing, and shorter ad formats –the filmmaker must adapt. A lot of advertisers now ask for video which is originally created for a longer format, to be adapted into a shorter format. But how much of the emotional impact is lost when adapting an emotionally based narrative commercial? This study aims to find out what the difference in emotional response is regarding different lengths of the same emotionally based narrative video. The author edited an already finished emotionally based narrative commercial video into two new, shorter versions. The process is documented and presented. These three videos were then shown to volunteers, alongside questions regarding their emotional state before and after. When analyzing the data gathered from the questionnaire it was clear that the emotional response differed from the various videos. The original video omitted the largest emotional response, and the shortest video omitted the lowest amount of emotional response. It seems that when adapting an emotionally based narrative video into a shorter format, some aspects of the video get lost. In turn, the emotional response of the viewers will be impacted.
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Gustafsson, Fredrik. "Hasse Ekman : a question of authorship in a national context." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3421.
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This thesis takes a historical approach to its subject and focuses on Swedish cinema of the 1940s and 1950s. The thesis argues that Swedish cinema experienced a renaissance in the 1940s, lasting approximately from 1940 to 1953. It further suggests that one of the most important filmmakers in this renaissance was Hasse Ekman. By focussing upon Ekman and this renaissance, a much-needed contextualisation of Ingmar Bergman will be achieved. Ingmar Bergman is one of the most well-known and well-researched filmmakers of all time, but there are still gaps in the material surrounding him, and one such gap concerns his cinematic origins. Bergman was a part of the 1940s renaissance, during which Bergman worked with, and was influenced by, other filmmakers and in particular Ekman. The thesis is divided into three parts. The first part introduces the relevant literature and discusses ideas of authorship and national cinema. It also provides a historic overview of Swedish society and cinema during the 1940s and 1950s, providing the context needed to better understand the films of Ekman, and Bergman too. This part also looks at the 1930s to illustrate what came before this renaissance, and how the films of the 1940s differed from what had gone before. The second part is a chronological overview of Ekman's career from the late-1930s to his move to Spain in 1964. The last part is a discussion of Ekman's relation to Swedish society and his view of the world, based on close textual readings of his films. The aim of the thesis is to present, for the first time, a coherent and extensive overview of Ekman's career and body of work, while also situating it in the specific context in which it emerged, thereby shedding new light on an important, though neglected, episode in cinema history.
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Ferenz, Volker. "Don't believe his lies : the unreliable narrator in contemporary American cinema /." Trier : Wiss. Verl. Trier, 2008. http://d-nb.info/990884805/04.
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Kaley, Heather L. "William Caxton: England's First Print Author." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1398275503.
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Greene, Justin R. "I Am an Author: Performing Authorship in Literary Culture." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5346.
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Authorship is not merely an act of putting pen to paper or fingers to keyboard; it is a social identity performance that includes the use of multiple media. Authors must be hyper- visible to cut through the dearth of information, entertainment options, and personae vying for attention in our supersaturated media environment. As they enter the literary world, writers consciously create characters and narratives around themselves, and through the consistent and believable enactment of these features, authors are born. In this dissertation, I analyze the performance of authorship in U.S. literary culture through an interdisciplinary framework. My work pulls from authorship studies, performance studies, celebrity/persona studies, and sociological studies of art to uncover how writers create and disseminate their authorial identities. The writers used in this project embody four types of authorial identity: Jonathan Franzen as the professional artist, David Foster Wallace as the Romantic genius, Tao Lin as the digital eccentric, and Roxane Gay as the Intersectional Feminist. These writers flirt with popular recognition, but they remain tied firmly to the serious, or in a Bourdieuvian sense, restricted area of cultural production. As my case studies progress, I highlight how print, audio/visual, and digital media are used or not used by these writers as sites for their performances. I claim that as writers develop their characters on such digital platforms as Twitter and Tumblr that they are more accepting of the validity of digital authorship. However, this acceptance is diminished by the dominant role print media have in the conceptions of authorship. The varying ways literary tradition, media, and celebrity intersect are brought to the forefront in these examples, shedding light on the need for larger conceptions of authorship in the literary world. My interpretation of authorship as social identity performance broadens a relatively restrictive and, in many ways, stagnant area, adding nuance to how literary culture actively works to maintain and dilute the value of one of its most prominent features.
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Hayashi, Sílvia Okumura. "Fundamentos da montagem audiovisual." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27161/tde-08092016-155047/.
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Este trabalho é um estudo sobre a montagem audiovisual. A pesquisa se estrutura em torno das relações entre os elementos fundamentais do ofício de se montar imagens e sons: o tempo, o espaço, a montagem, as ferramentas de trabalho, media pipelines e o mapa. Para tanto, investigamos a natureza algorítmica e tecnológica da montagem audiovisual, as formas de sua aplicação na produção industrial e também as possibilidades de criação formas singulares de montagem que se originam a partir da exploração de fissuras (cracks) decorrentes das características algorítmicas da montagem audiovisual. Esta pesquisa também abrange a análise de um conjunto de produtos televisivos seriados, dos filmes Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, Azul é a Cor Mais Quente, Blue, entre outros.This research is a study on audiovisual montage. Time, space, montage, tools, media pipelines and maps are the key elements of the craft of editing sound and images and this research is structured around these fundamentals. The algorithmic nature of montage and its use in industrial media production and the possibility of creating unique montage styles that explores the cracks in this algorithm are investigated in this thesis. This research also analyses a set of television series, the feature films Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, Blues is the Warmest Color, Blue, among others.
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Cowan, Philip. "Persistence of vision : film authorship and the role of the cinematographer (with a case study of Gregg Toland)." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2016. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/608795/.
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Film authorship has been attributed to directors since the 1940s. The auteur theory typifies a practice of crediting directors with all meaningful, creative responsibility for the films that they direct. The literary notion of single authorship dominates analysis of an art form that is collaborative in its process of making. These two persistent, yet anachronistic assumptions undermine any nuanced understanding of authorship in film. This thesis refutes the notion of single authorship, and establishes a model of collaborative authorship in film, which is inclusive of producers, scriptwriters, actors, designers, cinematographers, editors and composers. Analysing the contribution of all potential co-authors is too great a task for one thesis, therefore the thesis takes the cinematographer to examine in detail, as a prima facie example of a co-author. The cinematographer’s role is often discussed in terms of technology or style, rarely in terms of authorship of their images. The thesis asks if the authorial contribution of the individual cinematographer to classical, narrative-based film, can be identified and attributed. The thesis presents an analytical toolkit for studying the filmic image, and the cinematographer’s creative contribution to the films they shoot. These tools are applied in the thesis to analyse the work of Gregg Toland. Toland’s case typifies the historical neglect of many cinematographers. He is invariably only discussed in terms of his technical contribution, and his authorial contribution to the films he shot is invariably credited to the auteur directors with whom he worked, for example, Welles, Hawks, and Ford. By the use of close textual and image analysis, Toland’s authorial status is established, satisfying all historical and contemporary definitions of a filmic author. The thesis advocates the notion of multiple co-authorship in film and, within this context, provides a methodology for the analysis of one of those co-authors, the cinematographer.
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Dugas, Hélène. "Le rêveur, scénario de film ; suivi de Étude sur la lucidité onirique et réflexion sur le processus de création scénaristique." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq33627.pdf.
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Sharma, Aparna. "Montage and ethnicity : experimental film practice and editing in the documentation of the Gujarati Indian community in Wales." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.442503.
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Kedfors, Fredrik. "Reaching a creative common ground : Enhancing the creative collaboration between a film editor and its respective client." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för informatik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-119515.
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The aim of this thesis is to locate current problems concerning the process of finding common ground between a creative producer and its respective client, furthermore it aims to propose a solution to this problem in the context of collaborative video editing. The paper starts off by exploring research related to the topic. After that, it establishes, through interviews with experts within fields of video editing and graphic design, what the currently existing problems are concerning communication within their line of work. As a solution to these problems, a collaborative software is proposed with the idea of bridging the understanding between the video editor and its client. The paper ends with some conclusions surrounding the current state of the topic and proposes a way forward for both practitioners and researchers.
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Nozaic, Claire. "An introduction to audio post-production for film." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/17405.
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Thesis (M.Mus.)--University of Stellenbosch, 2006.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In South Africa there has been an increase over the last few years in audio engineering courses which include modules of study in audio post-production or even offer audio post-production as a major focus of study. From an academic standpoint however, and despite the growth in the local film industry, very little study of this field has been undertaken in South Africa until recently. In 2005, a MMus thesis was submitted at the University of KwaZulu-Natal entitled Acoustic Ambience in Cinematography: An Exploration of the Descriptive and Emotional Impact of the Aural Environment (Turner, 2005: online). The thesis briefly outlines the basic components of the soundtrack and focuses on describing and analysing the properties of ambience, a sub-section of sound effects. At Stellenbosch University, research has recently begun in the fields of film music and Foley (sound effects associated with human movement onscreen). The purpose of this thesis is to provide an overview of audio post-production and the contribution of sound to the film medium. It provides an outline of the processes involved in creating a soundtrack for film and includes a description of the components of the soundtrack and recommendations for practical application.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Gedurende die afgelope paar jaar was daar ‘n toename in oudio-ingenieurskursusse, insluitend studiemodules in oudio post-produksie, en selfs ‘n aanbod vir modules in post-produksie as hoofstudierigting. Desnieteenstaande, en ten spyte van die groei in die plaaslike filmindustrie is tot onlangs min akademiese studies op dié terrein in Suid-Afrika onderneem. In 2005 is ‘n MMus-tesis aan die Universiteit van KwaZulu-Natal voorgelê, met die titel Acoustic Ambience in Cinematography: An Exploration of the Descriptive and Emotional Impact of the Aural Environment (Turner, 2005: aanlyn). Hierdie tesis gee ‘n basiese oorsig oor die basiese komponente van die klankbaan, en fokus op die beskrywing en analise van die eienskappe van ambience – ‘n onderafdeling van klankeffekte. By die Universiteit van Stellenbosch is onlangs ‘n begin gemaak met navorsing oor die terreine van filmmusiek en Foley, d.w.s. klankeffekte geassosieer met menslike bewegings op die skerm.. Hierdie tesis beoog om ‘n oorsig te gee van oudio post-produksie en die bydrae van klank tot die filmmedium. Dit verskaf ‘n oorsig oor die prosesse betrokke by die daarstelling van ‘n filmklankbaan en sluit ook in ‘n beskrywing van die komponente van die klankbaan en aanbevelings vir die praktiese toepassing daarvan.
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Roe, James Madison. "AM800." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1760.
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In this paper, I will detail the film making techniques that my crew and I employed while making AM800, my thesis film at the University of New Orleans. I will detail the creative and technical steps we took, from the earliest stages of idea conceptualization to the final phases of post-production and screening. During my recounting of this process, I will discuss our creative goals, the challenges that we faced while achieving these goals, and the resulting product's effectiveness as a narrative short film. The quality of the final product will be gauged through the results of test screenings and direct audience feedback.
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Rapoport, Robert S. "The iterative frame : algorithmic video editing, participant observation & the black box." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8339bcb5-79f2-44d1-b78d-7bd28aa1956e.
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Machine learning is increasingly involved in both our production and consumption of video. One symptom of this is the appearance of automated video editing applications. As this technology spreads rapidly to consumers, the need for substantive research about its social impact grows. To this end, this project maintains a focus on video editing as a microcosm of larger shifts in cultural objects co-authored by artificial intelligence. The window in which this research occurred (2010-2015) saw machine learning move increasingly into the public eye, and with it ethical concerns. What follows is, on the most abstract level, a discussion of why these ethical concerns are particularly urgent in the realm of the moving image. Algorithmic editing consists of software instructions to automate the creation of timelines of moving images. The criteria that this software uses to query a database is variable. Algorithmic authorship already exists in other media, but I will argue that the moving image is a separate case insofar as the raw material of text and music software can develop on its own. The performance of a trained actor can still not be generated by software. Thus, my focus is on the relationship between live embodied performance, and the subsequent algorithmic editing of that footage. This is a process that can employ other software like computer vision (to analyze the content of video) and predictive analytics (to guess what kind of automated film to make for a given user). How is performance altered when it has to communicate to human and non-human alike? The ritual of the iterative frame gives literal form to something that throughout human history has been a projection: the omniscient participant observer, more commonly known as the Divine. We experience black boxed software (AI's, specifically neural networks, which are intrinsically opaque) as functionally omniscient and tacitly allow it to edit more and more of life (e.g. filtering articles, playlists and even potential spouses). As long as it remains disembodied, we will continue to project the Divine on to the black box, causing cultural anxiety. In other words, predictive analytics alienate us from the source code of our cultural texts. The iterative frame then is a space in which these forces can be inscribed on the body, and hence narrated. The algorithmic editing of content is already taken for granted. The editing of moving images, in contrast, still requires a human hand. We need to understand the social power of moving image editing before it is delegated to automation. Practice Section: This project is practice-led, meaning that the portfolio of work was produced as it was being theorized. To underscore this, the portfolio comes at the end of the document. Video editors use artificial intelligence (AI) in a number of different applications, from deciding the sequencing of timelines to using facial and language detection to find actors in archives. This changes traditional production workflows on a number of levels. How can the single decision cut a between two frames of video speak to the larger epistemological shifts brought on by predictive analytics and Big Data (upon which they rely)? When predictive analytics begin modeling the world of moving images, how will our own understanding of the world change? In the practice-based section of this thesis, I explore how these shifts will change the way in which actors might approach performance. What does a gesture mean to AI and how will the editor decontextualize it? The set of a video shoot that will employ an element of AI in editing represents a move towards ritualization of production, summarized in the term the 'iterative frame'. The portfolio contains eight works that treat the set was taken as a microcosm of larger shifts in the production of culture. There is, I argue, metaphorical significance in the changing understanding of terms like 'continuity' and 'sync' on the AI-watched set. Theory Section In the theoretical section, the approach is broadly comparative. I contextualize the current dynamic by looking at previous shifts in technology that changed the relationship between production and post-production, notably the lightweight recording technology of the 1960s. This section also draws on debates in ethnographic filmmaking about the matching of film and ritual. In this body of literature, there is a focus on how participant observation can be formalized in film. Triangulating between event, participant observer and edit grammar in ethnographic filmmaking provides a useful analogy in understanding how AI as film editor might function in relation to contemporary production. Rituals occur in a frame that is dependent on a spatially/temporally separate observer. This dynamic also exists on sets bound for post-production involving AI, The convergence of film grammar and ritual grammar occurred in the 1960s under the banner of cinéma vérité in which the relationship between participant observer/ethnographer and the subject became most transparent. In Rouch and Morin's Chronicle of a Summer (1961), reflexivity became ritualized in the form of on-screen feedback sessions. The edit became transparent-the black box of cinema disappeared. Today as artificial intelligence enters the film production process this relationship begins to reverse-feedback, while it exists, becomes less transparent. The weight of the feedback ritual gets gradually shifted from presence and production to montage and post-production. Put differently, in cinéma vérité, the participant observer was most present in the frame. As participant observation gradually becomes shared with code it becomes more difficult to give it an embodied representation and thus its presence is felt more in the edit of the film. The relationship between the ritual actor and the participant observer (the algorithm) is completely mediated by the edit, a reassertion of the black box, where once it had been transparent. The crucible for looking at the relationship between algorithmic editing, participant observation and the black box is the subject in trance. In ritual trance the individual is subsumed by collective codes. Long before the advent of automated editing trance was an epistemological problem posed to film editing. In the iterative frame, for the first time, film grammar can echo ritual grammar and indeed become continuous with it. This occurs through removing the act of cutting from the causal world, and projecting this logic of post-production onto performance. Why does this occur? Ritual and specifically ritual trance is the moment when a culture gives embodied form to what it could not otherwise articulate. The trance of predictive analytics-the AI that increasingly choreographs our relationship to information-is the ineffable that finds form in the iterative frame. In the iterative frame a gesture never exists in a single instance, but in a potential state. The performers in this frame begin to understand themselves in terms of how automated indexing processes reconfigure their performance. To the extent that gestures are complicit with this mode of databasing they can be seen as votive toward the algorithmic. The practice section focuses on the poetics of this position. Chapter One focuses on cinéma vérité as a moment in which the relationship between production and post-production shifted as a function of more agile recording technology, allowing the participant observer to enter the frame. This shift becomes a lens to look at changes that AI might bring. Chapter Two treats the work of Pierre Huyghe as a 'liminal phase' in which a new relationship between production and post-production is explored. Finally, Chapter Three looks at a film in which actors perform with awareness that footage will be processed by an algorithmic edit.The conclusion looks at the implications this way of relating to AI-especially commercial AI-through embodied performance could foster a more critical relationship to the proliferating black-boxed modes of production.
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Catling, Aaron. "The Ending Needs Work AKA the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of being an independent filmmaker in Australia." Queensland University of Technology, 2005. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16091/.
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Over the period of candidature, write and direct a feature film to completion. Furthermore, undertake a thorough reflective phase which involves the analysis of each aspect relating to those key components, writing and directing. Through this form of creative practice and utilising state of the art digital filmmaking techniques it is hoped that an addition to knowledge will be achieved.
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Oliveira, Mayara Fior. "Raccords e faux raccords e a construção do discurso na montagem cinematográfica." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27161/tde-22022018-171553/.
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A montagem cinematográfica foi um advento que mudou os rumos da história do audiovisual. O processo de edição e montagem possui uma importância ímpar na constituição da linguagem audiovisual. Modificada desde Méliès e aperfeiçoada ao longo do tempo, a montagem cinematográfica se tornou um dos pilares sobre os quais se sustentam os estudos de diversos autores dentro da história do Audiovisual, especificamente na história e teoria do cinema. Através da leitura de inúmeras dessas obras, em conjunto com a análise fílmica, podemos constatar que a manipulação do tempo e do espaço durante o processo de montagem de uma obra audiovisual permite a construção de múltiplos sentidos discursivos. Considerando essa relevância da montagem na construção da narrativa fílmica, esse projeto visa refletir sua importância discursiva por meio da análise de um recurso empregado constantemente na montagem: o faux raccord. A evidência do aparato e a adição de sentidos na etapa da pós-produção através da utilização do faux raccord faz com que esse elemento seja fulcral na análise da importância da montagem discursiva. Assim, essa pesquisa busca postular uma precisa definição para o termo, bem como situá-lo na produção teórica e audiovisual ao longo da história. Compreendendo seus usos e aplicações e averiguando de que modo esse elemento gesta nos filmes sentidos discursivos e propicia ao espectador a percepção dessa construção de sentido através da evidência do corte.Film editing was a invention that changed the course of audiovisual\'s history. The process of editing has a unique importance in the creation of audiovisual language. Modified since Méliès and improved over time, film editing became one of the pillars in film studies, specifically in history and film theory. By reading many theoretical works, combined with film analysis, we note that the manipulation of time and space during the film editing process of an audiovisual work allows the construction of multiple discursive meanings. Considering the importance of editing in the construction of film narrative, this project is a reflection of discursive importance through the analysis of a resource constantly used in film editing: faux raccord. Therefore, this research seeks to postulate a precise definition for the term, and place it in the theoretical and audiovisual production throughout history. Understanding its uses and applications, and reflecting how this element generates discursive meanings in films and provides the spectator the perception of meaning construction through the evidence of the cut.
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de, Selincourt Chris. "Where is the mind of the media editor? : an analysis of editors as intermediaries between technology and the cinematic experience." Thesis, Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10369/8682.
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What space does the mind occupy? A standard response to this question might be to locate the mind within the brain. However some argue that our mental processes also extend beyond the boundaries of the brain. Gallagher & Zahavi (2008) have termed these two views of the mind: internalism and externalism. In cinema, the role of editor as mediator between the cognitive activities of filmmakers, audiences and the editing equipment, makes their practice particularly suited for investigating these two seemingly incompatible views. When editors cut or join chunks of sound and image, they assemble externally what some would recognise internally as the mind’s fluctuations between one object of attention and the next. Their activities reveal a side of cinema, but also of the mind, which is usually hidden from view. The purpose of this thesis will therefore be to show how studying the process of editing contributes to our understanding of the relationship between mind and world. In order to address the question of where the editor’s mental processes are located, this study applies a phenomenographic methodology. Rather than attempt to understand cognition from a preconceived or objectively constituted position, phenomenography starts by examining variation in how a group of individuals view a particular process. This leads toward research findings that are presented from a ‘second-order perspective’ (Marton, 1981). In this thesis an understanding of how audiovisual material is selected and sequenced is revealed through fourteen interviews with British editors and directors. From the analysis of these interviews a framework emerged of five critical interrelated ways to approach the editing process. This evidence suggests that the cognitive process occurs in virtue of an editor’s physical activities, the editing equipment, plus a broader network of social and cultural relations that support the filmmaking environment. Refuting the belief that the mind is separate from the world, the editor’s mental processes are to be found distributed amongst a variety of internal and external features of their environment. The outcome of this thesis is a phenomenographic perspective on the editing process. This, I conclude, will help to inform cognitive scientists of the kinds of mental processes that editors are aware of. It also provides a wider audience of scholars with a framework for further research on variation in the process and practice of editing.
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Stoner, Zachary. "Hell is a Game Show: An Artistic Interpretation of the Afterlife." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1524835391884507.
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Feng, Ping Feng. "Examination of the Hollywood Movie Trailers Editing Pattern Evolution over Time by Using the Quantitative Approach of Statistical Stylistic Analysis." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/395476.
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In this study, I took the quantitative research approach of film statistical stylistic analysis to examine the editing pattern evolution of 130 Hollywood movie trailers over the past 60 years from 1951 to 2015; the prior studies on the overall evolution of the Hollywood movies’ editing pattern are compared and discussed. The results suggest that although the movie trailers are much shorter than the whole movies, the average shot lengths of the trailers still display a declining trend over the past 60 years, and the variations in the shot lengths are also decreasing. Second, the motions within each framedo not change significantly over the years, while the correlation coefficients between the shot lengths and the motions within the shots are moving toward a more negative correlation relationship over time, suggesting that the trailers are subject to an editing evolution trend that the shorter the shot is, the more motions there are within it, and this also aligns with the overall movies’ editing pattern evolution trend. Last, the luminance of the trailers remains almost the same over time, which does not align with the overall movies’ editing pattern evolution of becoming darker and darker over decades. Together these findings suggest that the movie trailers’ editing rhythm evolution in general aligns with that of overall movies over time while the visual editing pattern evolution of color luminance does not. The study results will improve our understanding on how the Hollywood movie trailers’ editing pattern and style have evolved over time and pave the way for future advertising studies and cognitive psychology studies on the audience’s attention, immersion and emotional response to various editing patterns of movie trailers.
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McDonald, Caitlin Elizabeth. "Exile, authorship, and 'the good German' : a reconsideration of the screenplays and novels of Emeric Pressburger." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2018. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/91a2c05b-c5ac-40b7-baae-9a2a5836ea51.
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Despite being an equal in the most significant partnership in British cinema, Emeric Pressburger has largely been overshadowed by his long term collaborator Michael Powell in both critical and academic studies. While there have been countless books on Powell and Pressburger as a team, those who have sought to separate the partnership have, until now, focussed almost exclusively on Powell. This thesis will attempt to redress the balance within Powell and Pressburger scholarship and attempt to break away from director-centric film studies. It will aim to examine Pressburger’s morally ambiguous characters, such as the recurring “good German” and his propensity to humanise characters who would normally be termed evil or corrupt, in conjunction with the central themes of displacement and exile within Pressburger’s screenplays and novels. The thesis will also utilise both unpublished and unfilmed material and demonstrate that the study of these works that exist only in archives provide a greater insight into the working practises of authors and filmmakers, while providing a valuable point of comparison to their more widely known works. Specifically, this thesis will address four separate aspects of Pressburger’s canon. First, it will discuss Pressburger’s war films which he made with Powell, which have suffered to an extent from neglect by many Archers’ scholars. It is clear that Pressburger’s key hallmarks and mirroring of his own experiences during the war can be seen to develop within these works and provide an ideal point of comparison with that of his later projects such as his novels. Chapter two will then examine the often overlooked filmed operetta, Oh ... Rosalinda!! (1955) along with Pressburger’s unfilmed screenplay The Golden Years (1951) a biopic of Richard Strauss, and provide a comparison to demonstrate the manner in which Pressburger’s love of opera overlapped with his development of complex characters and response to the war. Chapter three will analyse Pressburger two published novels, both of which have been largely ignored by both cinema and literary critics. Through the study of these novels, the difference in approach after the transition from screenwriter to novelist will be examined, along with the further development of his seeming neutrality in the portrayal of morally unsound characters. Chapter four will then focus on Pressburger’s two unpublished novels, The Unholy Passion and A Face like England, with consideration of Pressburger’s developing ideas of morality and forgiveness in his later years. In conclusion, by closely examining works that have been overlooked by Powell and Pressburger scholars, the thesis will shed new light on Pressburger, both as a filmmaker and an author and demonstrate the complexities of both his characters and his writing.
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Laisney, Simon. "Quel style de montage pour le Nouvel Hollywood ?" Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030158.
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En 1967, sous l’influence du jeune cinéma européen, Hollywood accède à son tour à la modernité : le « Vieil Hollywood » laisse place à un « Nouvel Hollywood ». Ce mouvement de renouvellement du cinéma américain, symboliquement inauguré par Bonnie and Clyde d’Arthur Penn et Le lauréat de Mike Nichols, est, explique-t-on, le fait d’une génération nouvelle de cinéastes, parmi lesquels, outre Penn et Nichols, Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, William Friedkin,Michael Cimino, Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, Bob Rafelson, Hal Ashby... Il est aussi le fait d’une génération nouvelle de monteurs, qui, en complicité avec leurs réalisateurs, éprouvèrent de nouvelles formes d’expressivité esthétique et narrative, sans craindre de contrevenir aux règles conventionnelles instituées par leurs aînés ; parfois même en réaction contre ces règles. On peut notamment citer, parmi ces fidèles et précieux collaborateurs, Dede Allen, Walter Murch, Sam O’Steen, Verna Fields, Alan Heim, Paul Hirsch, Robert C. Jones, Richard Marks, ou encore Ralph Rosenblum. Nous veillons à déterminer, dans cette thèse, la part de responsabilité, tant collective qu’individuelle, de cette nouvelle génération de monteurs dans le mouvement de renouvellement esthétique du cinéma américain. Et, au-delà des personnes, d’apprécier ce style de montage néohollywoodien, d’évaluer son importance dans la constitution du style neuf des films américains des années 1970, de même que l’étendue de ses innovationsIn 1967, under the influence of European art films, Hollywood underwent important changes in the course of the 1960s : « Old Hollywood » was taken over by a « New Hollywood ». This process of renewal of American cinema, which has been symbolically launched by Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde and Mike Nichols’ The Graduate, is due, it has been said, to the arrival of a new – mostly film-school educated – generation of filmmakers, such as Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma,George Lucas, William Friedkin, Michael Cimino, Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, Bob Rafelson or Hal Ashby. It is also due to the arrival of a new generation of film editors who did not fear to challenge the doctrine of classical Hollywood editing and break the established rules in order to take a chance and try new ways of telling a story. These films editors are, amongst others, Dede Allen, Walter Murch, Sam O’Steen, Verna Fields, Alan Heim, Paul Hirsch, Robert C. Jones, Richard Marks, or Ralph Rosenblum. Our thesis examines the share of responsability, on both a collective and individual level, of this new generation of film editors in this process of renewal of American cinema in the 1960s and 1970’s. Its goal is, more generally, to determine and appreciate this new editing style, realize its importance and its influence on the Hollywood Renaissance style, as well as the wide range of its innovations
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Loftin, Gregory Peter. "Writing for the cut." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/23872.
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This submission falls into two sections: a thesis and a screenplay. My thesis presents an original approach to screenwriting using storytelling dynamics found in film editing; I call this “writing-for-the-cut”. This section also contains my software experiments that hold the promise of innovative digital tools for screenwriters. In the second section I apply both my editing strategy and my software experiments in the production of an original screenplay called Rush the Sky. In the history of the screenplay, the advent of the master scene format, which gained fairly wide circulation from the early 1950s (Price 11), marked a moment of separation of the screenwriter from the film production process. Up to this point most screenwriters worked closely with studios and were steeped in the contiguous crafts of filming and editing. But the master scene format freed the script from all references to the ‘factory’ and in so doing fundamentally transformed film writing culture; now a new generation of largely non-specialists were writing for the big screen. To fill the ‘film school’ void occasioned by the loss of studio apprenticeships and mentoring, a lively market in guru screenwriting manuals emerged, particularly from around the 1970s. Taking their cue from the ‘no camera angles’ injunction on screenplays, the manual-writers tended to delineate the territory of screenwriting as a craft detached from production; in this way manual-readers have been discouraged from any serious consideration of the follow-on crafts (filming and editing) as potential modifiers of the screenplay. The perhaps unintended consequence has been that ‘manual culture’ has come to foster a view of film as a finished, projected product: we are ‘writing for cinema’. I propose an alternative strategy: the edit suite, not the cinema, is the real destination for our screenplay. This is a view of film as a constructed product: we are ‘writing for the cut’. This idea finds its roots in the lively theories and debates advanced by the early Soviet filmmakers such as Lev Kuleshov and Sergei Eisenstein in the 1910s and 1920s. For them, as Pudovkin declared “The foundation of film art is editing” (Pudovkin xiii). They viewed editing as a juxtapositional dynamic, one that engaged the inductive capacities of the audience to ‘discover’ the story. From this Hegelian notion of juxtaposition to its more nuanced application today, I identify three kinds of editorial juxtaposition that are essential to cinematic storytelling: poetry, puzzle, and kinesis. I suggest that these juxtapositions are interrelated and on axes of intensity: Poetry to Prose, Puzzle to Exposition, and Kinesis to Stasis. Finally, I identify how each of these editing terms can be adapted for use by screenwriters. In the second part of this submission, Rush the Sky is a demonstration of how the techniques of writing-for-the-cut can be applied in practice. This is a fast moving thriller in the style of British Indie films such as Trainspotting (wr: John Hodge dir: Danny Boyle1996), Sexy Beast (wrs: Louis Mellis, David Scinto dir: Johanthan Glazer 2000), and Dead Man’s Shoes (wrs: Paddy Considine, Shane Meadows dir: Shane Meadows 2004). Rush the Sky tells the story of two adrenaline-addicted lovers: Ella and Luke. Luke is a young base-jumper who has witnessed a gangland murder. Desperate to escape the mob and the police, he climbs a high mast and base-jumps into a storm cloud. Struck by lightning, he falls to earth in a coma. Ella joins forces with Luke’s feral brother Jared and together they ‘rescue’ Luke from hospital and attempt to wake him up. Rush the Sky is a non-linear story that interweaves a present-day road movie with a darkly euphoric backstory. Some of the specific editing figures I employ include parallel action, ‘split-edit’, non-linear shuffle, scene-scripted montage, and ellipsis. In the development of the treatment, I devised a hybrid writing-editing interface that allowed me to ‘mount’ and sequence the beats of my story. This is a kinetic environment where the beats are displayed as text, proxy images and film clips. In this way the familiar write/read/revise process of screenwriting moved closer to the play/watch/edit process of the cutting room. I strongly believe this approach could herald a fresh way of both composing a screenplay and ‘proving’ the cinema-worthiness of the story before filming commences.
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Nova, João Luiz Leocadio da. "A dramaturgia da forma das trucagens eletrônicas digitais em Peter Greenaway." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27153/tde-14092009-151516/.
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Estudo centrado nas trucagens eletrônicas digitais utilizadas por Peter Greenaway a partir dos anos 80, no âmbito das tradições cinematográficas e da evolução tecnológica audiovisual. Conceitua-se suas intervenções técnicas e artísticas no campo dos efeitos especiais e das trucagens cinematográficas. O método de análise utilizado combina a dramaturgia da forma, enunciada por Sergei Eisenstein, com as tradições artísticas das composições do visual music, iniciado nos anos 20, e as teorias da física mecânica e seus movimentos ondulatórios. As reflexões construídas nessa pesquisa nos permitem reconhecer um amplo sistema de referências utilizado por Greenaway para desenvolver a sua dramaturgia da forma a partir das trucagens eletrônicas digitais. Diversas categorias propostas por Eisenstein foram revigoradas por Greenaway e estão sendo enriquecidas com novas formulações que apontam para o desenvolvimento de uma prática inovadora na cinematografia em geral.Study focused on electronic digital trick-film used by Peter Greenaway from the\'80s, under the traditions of film and audiovisual technology developments. The concept is its technical and artistic interventions in the field of special effects and trick-films. The analysis method used combines the form dramaturgy, provided by Sergei Eisenstein with the artistic traditions of the visual music compositions, starting in the 20s, and the theories of physics and mechanical wave motion. The reflections made in this study allow us to recognize an extensive system of references used by Greenaway to develop their theater the way from trucagens electronic fingerprints. Categories proposed by Eisenstein were reinvigorated by Greenaway and are enriched with new formulations that point to the development of an innovative practice in the film industry in general.
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French, Lisa, and lisa french@rmit edu au. "Centring the female: the articulation of female experience in the films of Jane Campion." RMIT University. Applied Communication, 2007. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080417.165002.
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This thesis is a study of female authorship that examines the feature films of Jane Campion in order to determine how her preoccupation with the cinematic articulation of 'female experience' is expressed in her films-whether female experience can be aestheticised, and to discover whether her gender can be discerned through the films of a woman director. The exploration of these ideas entails a review of the feminist thinking, methodologies and epistemologies that are relevant to cinema, and that examine relevant theoretical positions within feminism and theories of cinematic authorship. The key lens employed here for theorising Campion's cinema is that of postmodern-feminism. As an approach, this allows an understanding of difference rather than 'Otherness', and an enquiry into gender that is neither essentialist nor constructionist, but facilitates critical thinking about both positions. The central argument of this thesis is that Campion's film practice functions as an investigation into gender difference, how women and men live together in the world-experience that world, and are engendered as female through historic, psychological and cultural experiences. This thesis therefore argues that Campion's aesthetic and perspective is not only feminist, but also, female, and feminine, and her work a cinematic articulation of female experience.
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Cole, Alastair Charles. "Good Morning, Grade One : language ideologies and multilingualism within primary education in rural Zambia." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/11684.
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This practice based PhD project investigates the language ideologies which surround the specific multilingual context of rural primary education in Zambia. The project comprises of a creative documentary film and a complementary written submission. The fieldwork and filming of the project took place over 12 months between September 2011 and August 2012 in the community of Lwimba, in Chongwe District, Zambia. The project focuses on the experiences of a single grade one class, their teacher, and the surrounding community of Lwimba. The majority of the school children speak the community language of Soli. The regional lingua franca, and language of the teacher, however, is Nyanja, and the students must also learn Zambia’s only official language, English. At the centre of the project is a research inquiry focusing on the language ideologies which surround each of these languages, both within the classroom and the wider rural community. The project also simultaneously aims to investigate and reflect on the capacity of creative documentary film to engage with linguistic anthropological research. The film at the centre of the project presents a portrait of Annie, a young, urban teacher of the community’s grade one class, as well as three students and their families. Through the narrativised experiences of the teacher and children, it aims to highlight the linguistic ideologies present within the language events and practices in and around the classroom, as well as calling attention to their intersection with themes of linguistic modernity, multilingualism, and language capital. The project’s written submission is separated into three major chapters separated into the themes of narrative, value and text respectively. Each chapter will focus on subjects related to both the research inquiry and the project’s documentary film methodology. Chapter one outlines the intersection of political-historical narratives of nationhood and language that surround the project, and reflects on the practice of internal narrative construction within documentary film. Chapter two firstly focuses on the language valuations within the institutional setting of the classroom and the wider community, and secondly proposes a two-phase perspective of evaluation and value creation as a means to examine the practice of editing within documentary film making. Chapter three addresses the theme of text through discussing the role of literacy acquisition and use in the classroom and community, as well as analysing and reflecting on the practice of translation and subtitle creation within the project.
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Orfall, Blair. "Bollywood retakes : literary adaptation and appropriation in contemporary Hindi cinema /." Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1883677651&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Fernandes, Marcos Leandro Kurtinaitis. "Found footage em tempo de remix: cinema de apropriação e montagem como metacrítica cultural e sua ocorrência no Brasil." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27161/tde-13092013-112643/.
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A pesquisa tem por objetivo evidenciar de que maneira a criação artística baseada exclusivamente em apropriação e montagem de registros pré-existentes de imagem e som pode ser considerada, simultaneamente, uma forma expressiva autônoma e um instrumento de crítica cultural, bem como a ocorrência dessa prática na produção audiovisual brasileira. Trata-se de uma investigação histórica, teórica e crítica dos conceitos e práticas de found footage e remix e sua presença no Brasil, que os apresenta legitimados enquanto proposta estética e dimensionados na amplitude de suas manifestações. Toma como fundamentação teórica da investigação as contribuições de Jay Leyda e de William C. Wees ao estudo dos filmes de compilação e de found footage e também teorizações mais amplas a respeito do remix como categoria da produção cultural e forma de expressão artística contemporâneas, tais como as realizadas por Lawrence Lessig e Eduardo Navas. Preliminarmente, a dissertação apresenta um levantamento dos antecedentes históricos da técnica e de suas inúmeras aplicações nos mais diversos gêneros e formatos da produção audiovisual, na qual é particularizada em termos de autores e obras em que se faz presente, com especial atenção ao cinema brasileiro. Segue-se um ensaio sobre seu uso como forma de mediação crítica da produção audiovisual no contexto sociocultural e patamar tecnológico atuais. Afinal, acaba reconhecendo como manifestações de pura metacrítica audiovisual no Brasil duas obras em que essa característica é proeminente e determinante na enunciação do discurso: São Paulo, sinfonia e cacofonia, de Jean-Claude Bernardet (1995) e Um dia na vida, de Eduardo Coutinho (2010). Esses dois exemplos da cinematografia brasileira são então descritos e comentados de maneira que revela como exploram as possibilidades narrativas, poéticas e metacríticas da montagem de material audiovisual alheio.The research aims to show how the artistic creation based solely on appropriation and montage of pre-existing images and sounds can be considered both an autonomous form of expression and an instrument of cultural criticism, as well as the occurrence of this practice the Brazilian audiovisual production. It is a historical, theoretical and critical investigation on found footage and remix and its presence in Brazil, in which such concepts and practices are legitimized as aesthetic proposal and measured in terms of range of their manifestations. The research takes its theoretical guidelines from the contributions of Jay Leyda and William C. Wees to the study of compilation films and found footage and also from broader theories about remix as a contemporary category of cultural production and form of artistic expression, such as those conducted by Lawrence Lessig and Eduardo Navas. Preliminarily, the paper presents a survey of the historical background and numerous applications of the technique in the most diverse genres and formats of audiovisual production, particularized in terms of authors and works that make use of it, with special attention to its presence in Brazilian cinema. Such exposition is followed by an essay on its use as a form of critical mediation of audiovisual production in the present social and cultural context and current technological level. Two Brazilian films are presented as manifestations of pure audiovisual metacriticism in which this characteristic is prominent and featured fundamentally and decisively in their discourse: São Paulo, sinfonia e cacofonia (São Paulo, symphony and cacophony), by Jean-Claude Bernardet (1995) and Um dia na vida (A day in the life), by Eduardo Coutinho (2010). These two examples pulled from Brazilian cinematography are then described and discussed in a way that reveals how they explore the narrative, poetic and metacritical possibilities of found footage montage.
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NASCIMENTO, Igor Fernando de Jesus. "Nas coxias do texto: a confecção da dramaturgia de "As três fiandeiras"." Universidade Federal do Maranhão, 2017. http://tedebc.ufma.br:8080/jspui/handle/tede/1801.
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Structuration of the creation process of the text of the play “The Three Thread Makers”. The theme is the artistic making of actresses-storytellers, the lace makers of bilro (a Brazilian kind of artisanal bobbin), the legends of the town of Raposa from the metropolitan area of São Luís-MA, and the three Moiras of Greek mythology: Atropos, Láquesis and Clotho. The process of creation took place through collaborative theater with the playwright present in the rehearsals, in the assembly process and in the presentations, with no hierarchies of functions between the professionals involved. This process lasted about three years, from 2012 to 2015, with its debut in March 2015. The study is divided into three chapters in which the process of costume making, weaving, cutting, sewing and adjusting are used as metaphors to signal each stage of the text making: the research, the construction of the fable, the treatment of the text and the changes in the text throughout rehearsals, assembly and presentation. Interdisciplinary research promotes a dialogue between cinema (script and editing) and theater, with a greater emphasis on dramaturgy, also covering acting, direction and set design. Then it is highlightened the figure of the playwright as a writer-rhapsode, who works with junctions and disjunctions of textual forms, and also - extending the concept coined by Sarrazac (1981) -, who writes on the basis of multiple informations, propositions and discoveries from the creation process.
A dissertação aqui apresentada tem como objetivo principal estruturar o processo de criação do texto do espetáculo As Três Fiandeiras. A obra tem como tema o fazer artístico de atrizes-contadoras de história, as rendeiras de Bilro, as lendas da cidade da Raposa pertencente à zona metropolitana de São Luís-MA e as três Moiras da mitologia grega: Átropos, Láquesis e Cloto. O processo de criação se deu por via do teatro colaborativo com o dramaturgo presente nos ensaios, no processo de montagem e nas apresentações, não havendo hierarquias das funções entre o profissionais envolvidos. Esse processo durou cerca de três anos, de 2012 até 2015, com estreia em março de 2015. O estudo se divide em três capítulos nos quais o processo de confecção da roupa, a tecelagem, o corte, a costura e o ajustes são utilizados como metáforas para sinalizar cada etapa da confecção do texto: a pesquisa, a construção da fábula, o tratamento do texto e as mudanças do texto ao longo dos ensaios, montagem e apresentação. A pesquisa interdisciplinar promove um diálogo entre o cinema (roteiro e montagem) e o teatro, com tônica maior na dramaturgia, abrangendo também a atuação, a direção e a cenografia. Destaca-se então a figura do dramaturgo como escritor-rapsodo, que trabalha com junções e disjunções de formas textuais e, também - estendendo o conceito cunhado por Sarrazac (1981) -, que escreve a partir de múltiplas informações, proposições e descobertas provindas do processo de criação.