Cinema-Style Television

1. Cinema-Style Television UFVA - 2011 64TH Anniversary of Cinema-Style Television 70th Anniversary of Convergence

2. EIC • Entertainment Industry Caucus • Professors with entertainment industry experience • Share insights from firsthand experience • Help professionals transition to academe

3. Panel Objectives • To encourage program structures and attitudes that mirror professional practice in order to prepare students for professional careers • To understand cinema’s future in a convergent world by looking at its past

4. Panelists • “Framing Cinema-Style Television” • Peter Kiwitt • Visiting Assistant Professor, RIT • (TV Director, Writer, Executive) • “The Evolution of Storytelling in American Television” • David Carren • Associate Professor, UT - Pan American • (TV Writer) • “Cinema and Television: The Career Swinging Door” • Diane Walsh • Associate Professor, University of the Arts • (TV Executive, Producer)

5. Framing Cinema-Style Television Peter Kiwitt http://peterkiwitt.wordpress.com

6. Film or Television? • Fantasy Island

7. Film or Television? • Fantasy Island • Lost

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22. Semantic Frame “Radio Movies” (1923) “Television film” . . . “Tele film” . . . “Telefilm” (1944) “Episodic” (1971) “Single-camera” (1972) Also: “Hour” “Drama” “Film”

23. Semantic Frame “Cinema-style”

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28. Cinema Form, Television Medium • Fantasy Island • Lost

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31. Conclusions • The cinema form is a production practice independent of content, technology, exhibition, budget, length, or aspect ratio. • As both a form and a medium, cinema transcends digital driven convergence. • Students interested in making cinema-style television and new media are best served by studying cinema production.

32. Conclusions • The cinema form is a production practice independent of content, technology, exhibition, budget, length, or aspect ratio. • As both a form and a medium, cinema transcends digital driven convergence. • Students interested in making cinema-style television and new media are best served by studying cinema production.

33. Conclusions • The cinema form is a production practice independent of content, technology, exhibition, budget, length, or aspect ratio. • As both a form and a medium, cinema transcends digital driven convergence. • Students interested in making cinema-style television and new media are best served by studying cinema production.

34. Framing Cinema-Style Television Peter Kiwitt http://peterkiwitt.wordpress.com/what-is-cinema

35. Cinema-Style Television Roundtable

36. Addendum

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38. Semantic Frame “Motion pictures” (1915)“Cinema” (1918) “Film” (1920)

39. Semantic Frame “Television” (1900)“Radio vision” (1923) “Radio movies” (1923)

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45. Selected Chronology • 1878: First telephone Exchange; Telephonoscope cartoon • 1884: Paul Nipkow invents Nipkow disc (for mechanical TV) • 1895: “Trick” stop-camera in Mary Queen of Scots • 1894: C. Francis Jenkins projectS first moving images in US; he also publishes his first article on “transmitting pictures by electricity” • 1897: Joseph J. Thomson invents CRT (for electronic TV)

46. Selected Chronology • 1900: ConstantinPerskyi coins “television” at the International Electricity Congress (translated from German to Russian to French to English) • 1906: Animation (Humorous Phases Of Funny Faces) • 1908: Traditional animation (Fantasmagorie) • 1916: Jenkins founds SMPE (becomes SMPTE in 1950) • 1920: Radio

47. Selected Chronology • 1923: Jenkins articulates differences between “television,” “radio vision,” and “radio movies” • 1925: First public demonstrations of television (Baird and Jenkins). • 1928: First licensed experimental broadcasts (W2XB GE, W3XK Jenkins); David Sarnoff also predicts “radio television” and “radiomovies” • 1932: First experimental all electronic broadcasts (W3XE). • 1933: W6XAO airs original news film of earthquake

48. Selected Chronology • 1939: First movie to air on TV (The Heart of New York) • 1941: Commercial broadcasting begins • 1944: MGM theatrical newsreel Patrolling the Ether premiers on TV • 1956: First practical videotape • 1965: First affordable consumer video; video art

49. Selected Chronology • 1967: Portable consumer video; timecode editing introduced • 1973: 2D computer animation • 1976: 3D computer animation; portable broadcast video (field production) • 1986: Digital video • 2000: 24p video (Sony F900)

50. “Episodic . . .” • 1948: “. . . Series” (Radio) • 1968: “. . . Television” (All) • 1971: “. . . Series“ (Cinema) • 1974: “. . . Television” (Cinema) • 1983: “. . . Show” (Cinema) • 1986: “. . . Production” (Cinema)