Points of Consideration 05 -Due October 15
25 points (printed and due in class
Reading: Revolutions in Communication, pp 191-209, pp.107-190,
Respond briefly to each question. Briefly define each vocabulary term. Perfectly follow these guidelines for a written paper.
What is 3-point lighting? Combine text and visuals to illustrate your response to the question. Demonstrate how 3 point lighting can be achieved with three lights. Print and Post.
What technologies, toys and devices did early cinema devices draw from?
What were some measures taken to censor cinema—and to control this new technology—in the early twentieth century?
Who was D.W. Griffith? Describe and contrast two different public reactions to The Birth of a Nation upon its release in 1915.
Who was Sergei Eisenstein? Who was Josef Stalin? From the account in the textbook, how did the rise of Stalin in the 1930s change the topics Sergei Eisenstein addressed in his films from the 1920s?
According to Kovarik, what were some of varied ways that American cinema treated African Americans on screen?
Vocabulary
blockbuster
nitrate film
silver negative film
aperture
cinématography and cinematographer
Motion Picture Patents Company
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
House Un-American Committee (HUAC)
studio system
Vitaphone
GIF vs. JPEG
Polaroid
Konica Japusin camera
spot meter
Kodachrome
ASA
Charlie Chaplin
Buster Keaton
Harold Lloyd
Laurel and Hardy
portable darkroom
BRIEF 5
Describe and Respond to several examples of each photographer’s works. Integrate into your Timeline and Post some of your writing to your blog.
Matthew Brady
Dorothea Lange
Leni Riefenshahl
Sebastiao Salgado
Man Ray
Edward S. Curtis
Richard Avedon
Annie Liebovitz
AM304 History of Multimedia 