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Film as conceptual parts: Paratext--metaphor of a threshold
Film as component parts: outsourced title sequences; filming, sound recording
Film as assembled parts: editing, sound mixing
Film as versions: rough cut; theatrical release; "edited for your screen or for airplane"; director's cut; director's ultimate recuts; streaming or physical media
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https://richardburtphd.com/lettersArchive.zip
Film as Multi-Media Assemblage
Teddybears - Punkrocker from 'Superman' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lYIhKhgIuY
Fan edit of the film with the Teddybears' song:
Superman | Punkrocker (feat. Iggy Pop) Teddybears
Taking the soundtrack apart:
Punkrocker Guitar Lesson / Guitar Tabs / Chords / Cover - Superman (2025)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR7oiW32_8w
Putting the soundtrack together:
Toni Visconti on producing David Bowie's "Heroes" 02:13
Adding words to a "video" (lyrics)
Catherine Zeta-Jones, Billie Piper - "Bad Moon Rising" (Lyrics) from Wednesday: Season 2 (2025)
What does film look like? From preproduction to postproduction
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The soundtrack of Dune (dir. Denis Villeneuve, 2021) across different epochs: tribal, modern, etc. to create a different world than ours
Learning by comparison and evaluation: Crane shots. Compare the second establishing shot in Letters to Juliet (dir. Gary, 2010) to the first establishing shot in La Plaisir (Max Ophuls, 1948)
Which shot is better and why?
Four questions we will be asking in this course (the answers are not meant to be exhaustive):
1.What does "finding" mean? Finding as Foraging, Searching, Hunting, Looking Around, Discovery, Exploration
Finding what you're looking for; faking something by accident; finding followed by confirmation of what you already know;
2. What does "footage" mean?
Found footage can be unrelated to the film in which it appears; it can be fake, made up for the film, or a documentary (in all cases we are supposed to think the footage is "true" (F for Fake); it can be missing film from the extant cut and used to make a restored more complete cut (three versions of Metropolis); it can be a film-made-within-a-film (Human League music video and Argo); it can be analog film, like home movies in that are digitized (Sinister 2021). Sometimes it's a polaroid photograph or a videocasette, as in The Ring (1998). Often these analog films are silent. Silent films often have two or three soundtracks; Or footage can mean stock footage used as needed in a film to save money; or it can be selected for artistic purposes (Bryan Ferry's 2022 music video, "Fooled around and Fell in Love".) Or it can be a reused film (F for Fake) or it can be a film made in the film (or footage shot and sold within a film; or it can be a sound recording in a film.
3. What is a cinematic paratext?
a. Opening and end title sequences (integrated; above the line; below the line; bloopers---see Transformers; sequels)
Crank end title sequence 0:46 (action films often do interesting things with subtitles for foreign languages or for a deaf mute character; Walkabout end title sequence
Imaginary Forces
https://www.youtube.com/@Imaginaryforces
Gimmick: sequels inserted into the end title sequences of Marvel films. For the Procrustean template, see Venom extended(2018) and Captain Marvel (2019) https://www.youtube.com/@Imaginaryforces
b. Trailers and Teasers CriterionTrailers
c. Animated menus on physical media (DVD, blu-ray, 4KUD)
d. Audiocommentaries and other supplements (Criterion editions)
e. film leader
f. Sound Naked voice from Merry Clayton in Gimme Shelter
4. What is film?
a. digital / streaming / home entertainment film
b. What can film look like?
Spatialized as shot by shot maps:
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c. Image and sound quality (post-production color-grading)
Contempt (1963): 4K Ultra HD vs Blu-ray (2009) Comparison
DVDbeaver Contempt comparisons
Kingdom of Heaven 2005 HDR ANALYSIS 4K UHD Blu Ray REVIEW vs 1080p BD SDR 100nits #TRUE_DIFFERENCE
4. Editing and Camera movement: From preproduction to postproduction
Music video about the making of the video: shooting, editing on the editing table (movieola), splicing film strips, projection of the rushes, waiting on set, use of the same shot with actress singing and without singing, tracking shot and reveal in a mirror The Human League Music Video "Don't You Want Me?" (1981) Assemblage: Exposing the Film to Music Video Means of Production. The film in the video is about . . . ? How many shots are in it?
See also the early shots of Gimme Shelter (1970) (trailer), Contempt, Finding Othello (dir. Orson Welles, 1978), and
The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl [Documentary 1993] timestamp 1:50:48 and ff
(Notice the low image and sound quality of Welles' essay film.)
5. What kinds of creativity are needed and reassemble a film in a music video:
Moulin Rouge trailer Baz Luhrmann 2001
Covers
(Patti) LaBelle's hit, "Lady Marmalade" (1975)
Covered in music video by Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya, Pink performing Lady Marmalade. (C) 2002
Music video by The Killers resembling Moulin Rouge in Mr. Brightside. (C) 2004
Buggles - Video killed the radio star (1979) The deaths of media.
6. How can one film pay homage to another (The Man Who Laughs in The Black Dahlia);
Fritz Lang's Metropolis "Machinenmensch" robot imitated in M3gan 2.0
AI Robot . Metropolis (1927) Trailer #1 / Made in 2024 | Movieclips Classic Trailers
M3GAN 2.0 | Official Trailer (Remix of Britney Spears' "Oops, I did it again.")
Btw, which M3gan 2.0 trailer is better?
7. How is film found in film? The Match via Comparison, Repetition, Similarity, Identity
Sound match in Blow Out (dir. Brian De Palma, 1982)
BLOW OUT MOVIE SCENE - Sound Recording
The Amateur (dir. James Hawes, 2025)
The action film / detective / mystery film or procedural / paranoid thriller / investiagtive journalist / horror film
The Match Cut
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Match Cut
Kubrick's Match Cut vs. Exact Match Cut (2001: A Space Odyssey)
Learning by comparison and evaluation: Crane shots. Compare the second establishing shot in Letters to Juliet (dir. Gary, 2010) to the first establishing shot in La Plaisir (Max Ophuls, 1948)
Which shot is better and why?
Guide To Orchestral Scoring In Studio One – Part 1 Intro & Basics: Woodwinds
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, "Hunters in the Snow," 1565
ANATOMY OF A SCENE IN THE NY TIMES (Directors narrate sequences from their films.)
Which of the two six shot sequences from the show scene in Psycho (1960)?
Match cut
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