Методическое пособие по практике основного иностранного языка (английский) для направления 050100 Педагогическое образование

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PART I. CINEMA

LESSON 1. FILMMAKING AND ITS CONSTITUENTS
Brainstorming
Discuss the following questions in your group:

1. 
   Do you consider films to be a genuine art form?
   
2. 
   To your mind did the film industry benefit as an art form from the introduction of visual effects, like green/blue screen, when whole scenes are shot in a studio and everything else is added in post-production using computer graphics?
   
3. 
   How can you estimate the modern state of film affairs in Russia, the UK, and the USA?
   

Vocabulary

cinema movies film (n, v) motion picture (movie) script screenplay shoot trailer cast credit titles (credits) final cut score OST dub

subtitles props filmography film review film release film editing special effects (SFX/SPFX/FX) optical effects (fade in black/ dissolve to) mechanical effects (stunt) visual effects (Visual FX/VFX) fast/slow motion blue/green screen (keying) matte

1. Fill in the blanks with the words from the list below; explain your choice.

1. 
   It’s heavy raining outside and I’ve already got two tickets to
   the ____________ this evening.
   
2. 
   And what have you expected? That your way to the centre of the city in autumn is going to be marvellous?
   
3. 
   The ____________ of this film was quite a large one.
   
4. 
   It’s not even close to the number in the original source.
   
5. 
   The ____________ we’ve created is aimed at a broad audience and we’re hoping that it is not going to be a disappointment to the fans of the previous parts.
   
6. 
   You gotta be kidding me!
   
7. 
   No, I’m telling you he’s gonna be there for reals, so let’s move it, otherwise we’ll be late for the ____________.
   
8. 
   Since the date of the ____________ premier was near, our crew was working hard, ____________ as many scenes a day as possible.
   
9. 
   Anyway the ____________ was fantastic; even though I’m not very keen on instrumental music I especially enjoyed the composition by Hans Zimmer.
   
10. 
    Oh my, the ____________ of this film was brilliant, I couldn’t predict the ending, it was unexpected, emotional, and probably the best one I’ve ever seen. Moreover, the ____________had an extraordinary amount of songs performed by famous bands like Coldplay and Muse.
    

List of words: cinema, film, movies, motion picture, cast, to shoot, movie score, OST, script.
2. Match the word (1-10) with its definition (a-j).

Credit titles Final cut Release Stunt Green screen To shoot Matte To set To dub Script	an acrobatic or dangerous piece of action in a film or television program;
	to film or photograph;
	a verb that says where the story of a film is located/based;
	a mask used to obscure part of an image in a film and allow another image to be substituted, combining the two;
	a written text for the use of the performers in films and plays;
	to provide (a film) with a soundtrack in a different language from the original;
	a list of those responsible for the production of a film or television program;
	a film or other product made available to the public;
	the final edited version of a film, approved by the director and producer;
	a blue (or green) background in front of which moving subjects are filmed and which allows a separately filmed background to be added to the final image.

3.Crossword.

		11.	12.
			10.
							9.
								7.	8.
					5.	6.
				4.
			3.
1.					2.

Across

Down

1. the action of making a film, recording, or other product available to the public; 3. to provide (a film) with a soundtrack in a different language from the original; 4. a dangerous and exciting piece of action in a film; 5. the music composed for a film or play; 10. the process of choosing some of what has been filmed or recorded and arranging it in a particular order; 11. a series of extracts from a film or broadcast, used for advance publicity;

2. (UP) captions displayed at the bottom of a cinema or television screen that translate or transcribe the dialogue or narrative; 6. the actors taking part in a play, film, or other production; 7. all the objects or pieces of furniture that are used in a film; 8. the process of removing the background from a scene in order to replace it with another one; 9. to make a film or take photographs using a camera; 12.a critical appraisal of a book, film, etc. published in a newspaper or magazine.

4. Translate the sentences using the essential vocabulary.

1) Место действия фильма разворачивается в живописном месте, однако, авторы также задействовали современные технологии, воспользовавшись зеленым экраном и добавив некоторые ландшафты при помощи компьютерной графики. 2) После просмотра трейлера к фильму мы с друзьями решили пойти на него в кино, но, к сожалению, наши ожидания не были оправданы: состав актеров, показанный ранее в трейлере, был изменен, а музыкальное сопровождение оставило всех зрителей равнодушными. 3) При первом просмотре данного фильма я совершил чудовищную ошибку, посмотрев его дублированную версию, побоявшись, что при просмотре в оригинале ничего не пойму, однако, мое впечатление было сильно испорчено качеством подбора голосов, и я пришел к выводу, что лучше смотреть фильм с субтитрами. 4) Финальная сцена была снята просто потрясающе! И я говорю не только о сценарии, так как визуальная составляющая была на высоком уровне, а ведь в то время, когда фильм снимался, не было возможностей редактирования фильма после съемки. 5) В сцене погони было использовано много опасных трюков, и я уверен, что репетиции подобного рода сцен были длительными и тяжелыми, но результат стоил того.
Reading
5. What do you know about the history of filmmaking? Match the names of the prominent persons from the left column (1-7) with the description of their achievements from the right column (a-h). Be careful! There’s one name that has 2 descriptions.

Robert William Paul Charlie Chaplin Thomas Edison Sergei Eisenstein Dan Barry and Charles Tait Augusteand Louis Lumière Georges Méliès

presented the first movie to portray space travel; invented a film projector; are Europe’s main producers who invented a portable projector; introduced to the public the Kinetograph and the Kinetoscope; created the world’s first “feature length” film; never patented his devices; is a well-known comedian actor; is a Soviet film director and a developer of the intellectual montage.

6. Read Part 1 of Text 1 and check your answers to ex. 5.
7. Find the following expressions in Part 1 of Text 1; give the English definition and the Russian translation.

1) an incandescent lamp	4) to patent	7) reel
2) film snippet	5) vignettes	8) synchronous sound
3) to make feature films	6) box office successes

TEXT 1. THE HISTORY OF FILMMAKING
Part 1.The birth of film. The silent era

In 1893 at the Chicago World’s Fair Thomas Edison introduced to the public two pioneering inventions: the Kinetograph, the first practical moving picture camera, and the Kinetoscope. The latter was a cabinet in which a continuous loop of celluloid film (powered by an electric motor) was backlit by an incandescent lamp and seen through a magnifying lens. The spectator neared an eye-piece. Kinetoscopeparlours were supplied with film snippets of recorded mundane events (such as Fred Ott’s Sneeze, 1894) as well as entertainment acts like acrobats, music hall performers and boxing demonstrations.

Kinetoscope parlors soon spread successfully to Europe. Edison, however, never attempted to patent these instruments on the other side of the Atlantic, since they relied so greatly on previous experiments and innovations from Britain and Europe. This enabled the development of imitations, such as the camera devised by British electrician and scientific instrument maker Robert William Paul. Paul had the idea of displaying moving pictures for group audiences, rather than just to individual viewers, and invented a film projector, giving his first public showing in 1895.

At about the same time, in France, Auguste and LouisLumière invented the cinematograph, a portable, three-in-one device: camera, printer, and projector. In late 1895 in Paris, they began exhibitions of projected films before the paying public. They quickly became Europe’s main producers with such vignettes as Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory and The Sprinkler Sprinkled (both 1895).

The movies of the time would usually present a single scene, authentic or staged, of everyday life. The standard length of a film remained one reel (about ten to fifteen minutes), through the first decade of the century. The cinematic techniques were hardly developed: no editing and usually no camera movement. But the novelty of realistically moving photographs was enough for a motion picture industry. Inventors and producers had tried from the very beginnings of moving pictures to marry the image with synchronous sound, but no practical method was devised until the late 1920s. Thus, for the first thirty years of their history, movies were more or less silent, although accompanied by live musicians.

In 1902 Paris stage magician Georges Méliès created A Trip to the Moon, possibly the first movie to portray space travel. He pioneered many of the fundamental SFX techniques used in movies for most of the twentieth century, demonstrating that film had unprecedented power to distort visible reality rather than just faithfully record it.

The Australian filmThe Story of the Kelly Gang (also screened as Ned Kelly and His Gang) by Dan Barry and Charles Tait is widely regarded as the world’s first “feature length” film. Its 80-minute running time was unprecedented when it was released in 1906. It wasn’t until 1911 that countries other than Australia began to make feature films. By this time 16 full length feature films had been made in Australia.

Soon Europe began creating multiple-reel films. With international box office successes like Queen Elizabeth (44 min, France, 1912), Quo Vadis? (120 min, Italy, 1913) and Cabiria (200 min, Italy, 1914), the feature film began to replace the short as the cinema’s central form. Along with it, they gained recognition as a genuine art form with a secure place in the emerging culture of the twentieth century.

Until this point, the cinemas of France and Italy had been the most globally popular and powerful. But the United States was already gaining quickly when World War I (1914-1918) caused a devastating interruption in the European film industries. The American industry, or “Hollywood”, as it was becoming known after its geographical center in California, gained the position it has held, more or less, ever since: movie factory for the world, exporting its product to most countries on earth and controlling the market in many of them. By the 1920s, the USA reached what is still its era of greatest-ever output, producing an average of 800 feature films annually, or 82% of the global total. The comedies of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, the swashbuckling adventures of Douglas Fairbanks and the romances of Clara Bow made these performers’ faces well-known on every continent.

The newborn Soviet cinema was the most radically innovative. There, the craft of editing, especially, surged forward, going beyond its previous role in advancing a story. Sergei Eisenstein perfected the technique of so-called intellectual montage, which strove to make violently clashing images express ideas and provoke emotional reactions in the viewer.

The possibilities of cinematography kept increasing as cameras became more mobile and film stocks more sensitive and versatile. Screen acting became more of a craft, without its earlier theatrical exaggeration and achieving greater subtlety and psychological realism.
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