The document provides an overview of basic film concepts. It discusses that films are typically divided into 3 acts that establish the characters and conflict, cover most of the action, and resolve the story. Acts are further divided into sequences of scenes that take place in a specific location or time. Scenes are made up of shots from different camera angles. Other concepts covered include lighting, acting, editing, ideology, movement created through camera techniques, the origins of "cinema," photography, sound, narrative, and writing.

1. Basic Film Concepts
Prepared by Jebbie E. Barrios as a lecture for Computer- Aided
Design and Visualization LPU_Cavite 2016-2017

2. There’s nothing more important than having solid,
manageable and achievable plan for your conceptual goal

3. Planning a production
• Understanding the paradigm that conventional
filmmakers use for their productions will give you
a good structure for planning, creating, and
managing your own projects.
• Most narrative films are broken into act, which
comprise sequences made up of scenes, which in
turn are made up of shots.

4. Narrative films are typically divided into 3
acts.
• The first act establishes the main characters and
the conflict or struggle that will define the story.
• The second act covers most of the action of the
story as the hero attempts to overcome this
conflict.

5. The third act concludes the film by resolving the
action in the story and tying up all the loose ends.

6. Acts can be deconstructed further into sequences, which
are groups of sequential scenes that unite around a
particular dramatic or narrative point.
A scene is a part of a film that takes place in a
specific place or time with specific characters to
present that part of the story. Films are broken
into scenes for organizational purposes by their
locations (that is, by where or when they take
place).

7. Scenes are broken into shots, which correspond to a
particular camera angle or framing.
Shots break up the monotony of a scene by giving
different views of the scene and its characters.
Shots are separated by cuts between its shot.
Shots are defined by angle of view, which is the
point (POV) of the camera. Shots change as soon
as the camera changed.

8. Lighting
Although CG lighting techniques may seem
completely different from lighting in real life, the
results are quite often the same. The more you
understand how real lights affects your subjects in
photography, the better you’ll be at CG lighting.

9. Without lights, you cant capture
anything on film.

10. Acting
Is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person
in theatre, television, film, or any
other storytelling medium who tells the story by
portraying a character and,
usually, speaking or singing the written text or play.
Acting requires a wide range of skills, including vocal projection,
clarity of speech, physical expressivity, emotional facility, a well-
developed imagination, and the ability to interpret drama.

11. Acting
It also often demands an ability to employ dialects, accents and
body language, improvisation, observation and emulation, mime,
and stage combat. Many actors train at length in special programs
or colleges to develop these skills, and today the vast majority of
professional actors have undergone extensive training.

12. Editing
It is the process of selecting and
preparing written, visual, audible and film media used to convey
information. The editing process can involve correction,
condensation, organization, and many other modifications
performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent,
accurate and complete work.

13. Ideology
Ideologies are systems of abstract thought applied to public matters
and thus make this concept central to politics. Implicitly every
political or economic tendency entails an ideology, whether or not it
is propounded as an explicit system of thought.
The term "ideology" was born in the highly controversial
philosophical and political debates and fights of the French
Revolution, and acquired several other meanings from the early
days of the First French Empire to the present.

14. Ideology
It is a set of conscious and unconscious ideas that constitute one's
goals, expectations, and actions. An ideology is a comprehensive
vision, a way of looking at things (compare worldview) as in
several philosophical tendencies (see political ideologies), or a set
of ideas proposed by the dominant class of a society to all members
of this society (a "received consciousness" or product of
socialization).

15. Movement- What is Movement in Film?
The camera blends visual conventions such as animation, sound
effects, music and camera angles all enclosed in a single frame to
create movement.
Movement is the quality of suggesting motion in a work of art. In
motion or moving pictures, one more element is involved than in a
painting, a moving frame. That's the camera. It blends visual
conventions, such as animation, sound effects, music, and camera
angles, all enclosed within a single frame.

16. Cinema
The word “cinema” in English and other languages
(cinematographe, kinema, kinemat) comes from the Greek word
κινηση (kinesi), meaning “movement” and from kinein, meaning “to
move.” That's how we get words like kinetic, kinesthetic, and
choreography.

17. Photography
It is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by
recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either
chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such
as photographic film, or electronically by means of an image sensor.

18. Sound
In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as a typically
audible mechanical wave of pressure and displacement, through
a medium such as air, and water.

19. What is a story?
What is narrative?
• It is anything told or recounted; more narrowly, and more usually,
something told or recounted in the form of a causally-linked set of
events; account; tale,: the telling of a happening or connected
series of happenings, whether true or fictitious.

20. Writing
It is a medium of communication that represents language through
the inscription of signs and symbols. In most languages, writing is a
complement to speech or spoken language. Writing is not a language
but a form of technology.
Within a language system, writing relies on many of the same
structures as speech, such as vocabulary, grammar and semantics,
with the added dependency of a system of signs or symbols, usually
in the form of a formal alphabet.

21. Writing
The result of writing is generally called text, and the recipient of
text is called a reader.
Motivations for writing:
includes publication, storytelling, correspondence and diary.
Writing has been instrumental in keeping history, dissemination of
knowledge through the media and the formation of legal systems.

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