Filmmaking

High school (ages 12+)
Art & Creativity

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/filmmaking

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the founding year of public film screenings?1895
2. What is the landmark sound film?'The Jazz Singer' (1927)
3. How did movies start in the late 1800s?In the late 19th century, inventors used cameras to capture motion, and the Lumière brothers made the Cinématographe in 1895, which could record, develop, and show films to people.
4. What changed when movies got sound?In the late 1920s, movies started to have sound with "The Jazz Singer" in 1927, which changed how actors acted, how scripts were written, and how audiences listened.

Mise-en-scène: The arrangement of everything that appears in the framing of a shot, including actors, setting, props, and lighting.
Montage: A sequence of short shots edited together to condense space, time, and information.
Diegetic Sound: Any sound that originates from within the film's world, which characters can hear.