The filmmaking process is commonly divided into five phases. Working according to these phases helps to do the job in a logical order, with as little complications as possible, since each stage of the process is based on the successful completion of its predecessor.
Phase 1: ____________________________________
Finding the concept for the film is the core of the whole filmmaking process. But once an idea excites a film director, he will develop it so it forms the foundation of the would-be film. This phase of the process helps to understand exactly what and how to shoot.
Next, a screenwriter (may be the very same director) creates the script developing characters, dialogues, sights and sounds. In some cases, a graphic storyboard is also provided by him.
Finally, the producer of the project has to be sought for financing the work.
Phase 2: ____________________________________
Casting for the film crew takes place. As the face of your film, the actors are crucial for its box office success. Actors usually have some time to make researches of their characters and understand them. Then the first rehearsals are conducted.
The director and the production managers plan the schedule for getting all the wanted audio and visual materials. Also, the budget is taken care of. The art director and the camera crew find locations, design and construct sets, plan basic camera movement and come up with Plan Bs in case things don’t go as planned (e.g. weather problems).
Phase 3: ____________________________________
On this phase shooting and recording take place. A large part of the film crew participates in this stage, making sure that the script is being followed accurately and that the materials are of the best possible quality.
The cameraman makes his first appearance. When recording it is also important to keep lighting – both natural and artificial – in mind, as it helps to convey the film’s atmosphere to the audience. That’s where the gaffer plays an important role. The sound recordist is in charge of the unwanted noise recorded on the sensitive microphones.
Phase 4: ____________________________________
This phase works with the raw material of a film. Editing is the process of going through the footage, cutting and re-arranging it, discarding what is not needed and making sure that what remains tells the story clearly. This is time to insert visual FX and the soundtrack.
Color corrections are made and sometimes a narration is added. This is the time to title the film. Although all those things may seem as “final touches”, they have a great influence on the film’s atmosphere and message.
Phase 5: ____________________________________
This is the process in which the film reaches the audience, and is therefore the final peak of the whole filmmaking process. It is done either by a theatrical distribution or for home viewing, such as DVD releases.
(http://www.filmmaking.com/the-process)
7. Use the information about the phases of filmmaking given in Text 2 and make up a dialogue:
- point out which one of the phases is the most complex and time-consuming to your mind;
- share your ideas with your partner;
- give reasons for your choice describing the phase and the actions undertaken during it.
8. Prepare a summary of Text 2 (see Appendix 1). Mention all the phases; try to use the new vocabulary.
9. Translate the sentences below from Russian into English:
1) Но стоит только какой-либо идее зацепить режиссера, и он непременно будет развивать ее, формируя основу будущего фильма. 2) Крупный план – это отличный способ привлечь зрителя к деталям или качественной игре актера, именно поэтому работа главного оператора очень важна и его роль является неотъемлемой в процессе съемок. 3) Перед первыми репетициями актеры обычно тратят некоторое время на изучение своих героев иих понимание. 4) Имя сценариста можно найти в финальных титрах вместе с именем художника-постановщика, а также список актеров снимавшихся в главных ролях, и даже названия композиций использованных в фильме. 5) Арт-директор и съемочная команда ищут место съемок, разрабатывают и конструируют декорации, планируют главные движения камеры и подготавливают запасной план на тот случай, если что-то пойдет не так. 6) Свет играетбольшую роль в процессе съемок, именно поэтому, создатели фильма не могут полагаться на естественное освещение, и вынуждены использовать искусственное.Безусловно монтажер может добавить эффекты уже после завершения съемок, однако, лучше заранее предусмотреть наличие необходимого света, иначе вся сцена может быть испорчена. 7) Осветитель выполняет настолько же важную роль, насколько и звукооператор, отвечающий за нежелательные шумы, записанные чувствительными микрофонами. 8) Зная, что камера плохо держится на штативе, ты все равно оставил ее без присмотра, и теперь у нее сломана линза, на ее замену придется потратить немалые деньги.
10.Read the following quotations about acting. Translate them into Russian. Which one do you like? Prepare a 2-minute speech based on it mentioning why you agree or disagree with it. Try to connect your monologue to some ideas or facts from the texts in Lesson 1 or Lesson 2.
1) “ Actors and musicians – they’re saints to me. <...> I’m speaking of those who won’t accept a useless life, just because they were born to it. <...>They work, they sacrifice, they do things... ” (Anne Rice, American writer)
2) “ I’m not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity. ” (Vivien Leigh, British actress)
3) “ If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig. ” (Tom Hanks, American actor)
4) “ In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel. ” (Constantin Stanislavski, Russian theatre director, actor)
5) “ I know very little about acting. I’m just an incredibly gifted faker. ” (Robert Downey Jr., American actor)
Listening
11. Do you know the following stars? Add a correct proper name to each photograph. What are they famous for?
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If you don’t recognize them, return to this task after listening to Audio 1, Audio 2, Audio 3.
AUDIO 1
(interview by Joe McCabe, “FEARnet”)
12. Read the following information before listening to Audio 1:
- ‘Archie’ – an American comic book about teenage life;
- Chris (= Christopher Nolan) – a British film director.
13. Listen to Audio 1. Choose whether the following statements are true or false, explain your choice:
| 1) The speaker wasn’t fond of comic books in his childhood. | T / F |
| 2) The speaker’s sisters enjoyed reading ‘ Batman’. | T / F |
| 3) For a certain period of time the actor had a thought of turning down the role of the Joker. | T / F |
| 4) Tim Burton asked the star to act in his film. | T / F |
| 5) Chris was open for the actor’s interpretations. | T / F |
| 6) The speaker cared to explain the difference from Jack Nicholson’s portrayal of the character. | T / F |
14. Listen to Audio 1 one more time. Check your answers to ex. 12. Guess who the speaker is.
AUDIO 2
(interview by Peter Travers, “Rolling Stone Movies”)
15.Read the following information before listening to Audio 2:
- Martin Freeman – a famous actor;
- Mark (= Mark Gatiss) – an English screenwriter;
- Steven (= Steven Moffat) – a famous series producer;
- Limelight – the focus of public attention;
- Asperger’s (= Asperger’s syndrome) – a rare and relatively mild autistic disorder characterized by awkwardness in social interaction, pedantry in speech, and preoccupation with very narrow interests.
16. Listen to Part 1 of Audio 2. Fill in the gaps.
Peter Travers: Alright, people, you have just seen a scene from “ Sherlock ”, which is in (1) ________________________ on PBS’s masterpiece mystery. And Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays Sherlock, brilliantly, I have to say, is here to prove that he’s just as brilliant when he’s not playing Sherlock…
The speaker: Oh, God, no, Peter…
Peter Travers: Yes, do it…
The speaker: I can’t…
Peter Travers: Did you have any moment of hesitation when you
(2) ________________________?
The speaker: Oh, huge, I mean, not when I was offered it, because by then I’ve read the script. And when I first heard of the idea, I think both Martin Freeman and I, both kinda flinched at the idea of
(3) ________________________ which is so iconic and so untouchably brilliant in its original form was sort of distasteful. It smacked of a cash cow, some kind of horrible cultural kind of cannibalism, pop-eating itself, if you will. And I just, I really (4) ________________________. I was also a little bit nervous about the idea of stepping into the limelight. Realizing by playing an iconic figure, I think it’s the 75th or 76th incarnation line. So, you know, well, (5) ________________________, yeah, I had a lot of actors have done this before…
Peter Travers: Really? I only knew of Basil Rathbone…
The speaker: And Jeremy Brett, you must know…
Peter Travers: Jeremy Brett…
The speaker: Robert Stephens, and it just goes on and on…
Peter Travers: And this guy, Robert Downey Junior…
The speaker: That little, yeah, that kinda, yeah…
Peter Travers: What?
The speaker: Yeah, I hope he does well, he’s got a lot of promise. Ehm…I, you know, I kinda went into lots of trepidation, but then
(6) ________________________ and just completely fell in love with it.
Peter Travers: There’s something about the voice, the tenor of it.
The speaker: I think, well, I mean I went back to the original books, it was so: how do you prepare for the role. I’ve read the book, ‘cause I knew that was exactly what had driven Mark and Steven for this
(7) ________________________. And we had a lot to establish that was our own to a tailor and an author and yet at the same time I had to bring, in my mind, I had to bring an element of
(8) ________________________, or at least other timeliness to him. And coming from the posh boarding-school, looking the way I do, I mean, I’ve done some period dramas, you know, I think, I think
(9) ________________________ and I think that’s what Mark and Steven wanted to use me for initially. And then I read for them, and they were like: “ Good, our instincts were very right”. And it’s been a marriage of bliss ever since, especially…
Peter Travers: How did you want to put yourself forward as this character?
The speaker: I would say, well, I have a first rule that
(10) ________________________ are as big kind of walls, so I go up, ok. That’s good for two and a half pages of
(11) ________________________, but you know, sharpened and polished into this entire narrative, and so I said about working on them a lot and I look at the action scenes as well, I also think about even the interaction and growth of the character, and where the relationships are developing. And I just can’t, I get itchy to do it, to be honest, I mean, this… it’s just very, they’re just really (12) ________________________…you just wanna get on and get playing really…
17. Listen to Part 1 of Audio 2 one more time. Check your answers to ex. 15. Guess who the speaker is.
18. Listen to Part 2 of Audio 2 and choose the correct answers to the following questions:
1) The speaker believes that Sherlock used to be an outsider at school because he:
a) was hurt by the classmates;
b) tried to hone some skills;
c) was a brilliant prodigy.
2) According to the speaker the friendship with Watson:
a) gives Sherlock a God complex;
b) humanizes Sherlock;
c) lets Sherlock’s guard down.
3) The character of Sherlock influenced the actor because he started:
a) to use the train from Cardiff to London;
b) to build imaginative pictures about the people around;
c) started to get into terrible troubles;
4) The actor’s aim in the first series was:
a) to become an icon for kids;
b) to make the books in demand;
c) to acquire a wonderful skill.
19. Listen to Part 2 of Audio 2 one more time. Check your answers to ex. 17.
AUDIO 3
(interview for “ Backstage ”)
20. Read the following information before listening to Audio 3:
- Aldo – the name of the character from the film “ InglouriousBasterds ”[1];
- Martial-art s – various sports, which originated chiefly in Japan, Korea, and China as forms of self-defense or attack, such as judo, karate, and kendo;
- Franchise – a general title or concept used for creating or marketing a series of products, typically films or television shows.
21. Listen to Audio 3 and answer the following questions:
1) What’s the speaker’s attitude towards casting? What is his job as a writer-director?
2) Does the speaker display a desire to drag as many movie stars into his films as possible or does he have a different approach?
3) What does the speaker mean when he says that he’s worked with genres that are “ virgin territory ” for him? Which films and genres does he mention?
4) On what condition is the speaker eager to take over an existing franchise? Which one did he want to take?
22. Listen to Audio 3 one more time. Check your answers to ex. 20. Guess who the speaker is.
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