The Art Of Film: The Camera (Vol 2)

[Music] la la [Music] the camera the filmmaker's paintbrush the camera's movement its placement the composition of the frame the lighting all combined to tell a visual story we've selected a few sequences from the great Masters each with a distinctly different visual style and a different application [Music] beauty is not yet met the owner of the strange Castle in which he is hostage foreign [Music] [Music] the Director of Photography who turned cocktow's poetry into images was Henri Pierre alakan [Music] cocktail took the great Flemish painters of the Renaissance as a model for his light sources his costumes and his composition [Music] foreign [Music] drops out completely leaving only the camera and lighting to set the mood [Music] and in Muriel two English girls Francois trufo's film of a novel by Ori Roche as in Roche's jewels and gym again it is a story of three people in love [Music] and have secretly gone to the country to be alone for the very first time in order to maintain the intimacy of this scene trufo has chosen to keep the audience and his camera at a distance [Music] [Applause] [Music] the traveling camera exactly so that the background and the action of the actors blend [Music] thank you [Music] the rocking horse winner D.H Lawrence's strange and wonderful story of human greed and the need for love and understanding foreign [Music] [Music] hope that his second sight in picking a racing winner can somehow Stop The Haunting Whispers that fill the house thank you and this is rather rather curious isn't it Alfred Hitchcock's the lady vanishes all these people on the train say they haven't seen this toy but they have we know that Hitchcock has said you let the audience find out a bomb is under the table but keep the knowledge from the characters in the story the suspense will Mount as the audience waits for the explosion in this case the bomb is two drugged glasses of wine the audience already knows that Paul Lucas the doctor is the villain he seem to have made a speedy recovery so let's just block Hitchcock's camera controls the wine glasses and the wine glasses control the scene oh but how could he be involved in a conspiracy look at him the poor fellow he's just a harmless traveler he's also a musical artist making a tour of ranzika well on the balance his husband is Minister of propaganda one word from her and his tour will be canceled oh I see brick walls but but tell me about the two English traveler they also denied seeing her it's just British diplomacy doctor never climb offensive it will sit on it's no fallen off his brother but I cannot understand is why should anyone want to dispose of the old lady well it's just what's done first but all we know is that she was here on this train and now she's gone well if you're right it means the whole train is against us what are we going to do and you are what you just told me I I shall risk examining the patients your back suspicious to hear that if nothing can happen the dream doesn't study of nerve [Applause] to our health and may our enemies if they exist be unconscious of our purpose [Applause] that's what we were study now come on [Applause] David always sells Nick's The Most Dangerous Game the subjective camera and the chase [Music] thank you I lose you know we'll beat this thing the other is hidden we will on the very same set on which King Kong was shot Joel McRae and Faye Ray flee the baron Zara Leslie Banks Baron Zara from Master Sportsman is bored with big game hunting on his Island he hunts human beings [Music] [Music] the camera movement through the foliage thrust the viewer directly into the chase [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] ingmar bergman's the silence two sisters in the small son of one are strangers in a country which we the audience realize is involved in an undefined War which Bergman only symbolizes it could be World War II or a war in the future in order to communicate a feeling of the boy's isolation Bergman chooses to position his camera overhead Bergman orchestrates a motion picture he uses the camera as a substitute for music he conducts with it he choreographs with it to Bergman each scene has an inherent Musical theme Bergman relies on the human face to tell much of his story often holding on a close-up long after other filmmakers would cut to another shot waiting for some change of expression some signal betrays an innermost thought we find our actors do not speak or understand the language however despite the human problems the impulse to understand to learn a few words in a different language to grow as the underlying thrust of bergman's the silence ah [Music] [Music] no evidence that out of the USSR and its almost static Film Production of the last 20 years would burst forth one of the freest most flexible yet disciplined cameras of Our Generation the handheld camera is parijonoff's basic tool it enables him to move quickly from one character to the next and yet maintain a sense of their spatial relationship to each other [Applause] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] mention lighting movement and lens selection combine to convey the mood of the procession [Music] by joining different shots at the point of Maximum confusion harijanov makes it seem as if we are watching one long continuous uncut movement foreign [Music] foreign foreign foreign