Synchronized: Sound recorded during shooting.
Voice over: Recorded narration that embellishes what’s on screen.
Wild track: Sound that’s not in sync with the specific action, usually ambient sounds such as crowd noise.
SOUND DESIGNER: Crew member responsible for the postproduction effects.
SPOTTING SESSION: The step in production when the sound and music editors run the movie with the director and film editor to decide what needs to be changed and added.
STAGE LINE: An imaginary line that cuts through the middle of a shot; if the camera crosses it, the viewpoint will be reversed and the audience will become disoriented.
STOCK SHOT: Pre-existing film from a library.
STORYBOARD: Shots sketched in sequence as a blueprint for coverage.
SUBJECTIVE VIEWPOINT: The audience sees what the actor does and they react together.
TAKE: Unit of film shot from the same angle.
TEMP DUB OR SCRATCH MIX: More sound and music added beyond what the editor did in his first cut but preceding the final mix.
TWO SHOT: Two actors within a frame.
WIPING THE FRAME: Cutting to a shot in which something or someone moves across the screen, often in front of the subject, filling the screen.
WRAP: To finish shooting.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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& OTHER REFERENCES
Gottlieb, Sidney, ed. Alfred Hitchcock: Interviews. (Conversations with Filmmakers Series.) Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2003.
La Valley, Albert J., ed. Focus on Hitchcock. (Film Focus series.) Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1972.
Littleton, Carol, interviewed by Bobbie O’Steen. New York, December 2007.
Lumet, Sidney. Making Movies. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1995.
O’Steen, Sam as told to Bobbie O’Steen, ed. Cut to the Chase: Forty-Five Years of Editing America’s Favorite Movies. Studio City, California: Michael Wiese Productions, 2001.
Peric, Suzana, interviewed by Bobbie O’Steen. New York, December 2007.
Polanski, Roman. Roman. New York, William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1984.
VIDEOGRAPHY
The author acknowledges the copyright owners of the following DVD supplements from which quotations have been used in this book for purposes of commentary, criticism, and scholarship under the Fair Use Doctrine.
Bouzereau, Laurent, writer, director, producer. “The Big Chill: A Reunion,” retrospective documentary from The Big Chill, 15th Anniversary Collector’s Edition DVD. Directed by Lawrence Kasdan. Culver City, California: Columbia/Tristar Home Video, 1998.
Bouzereau, Laurent, producer. “Body Heat: The Post-production,” DVD Café/ Blue Collar Productions, from Body Heat, deluxe edition DVD. Directed by Lawrence Kasdan. Burbank, California: Warner Home Video, Inc., 2006.
Bouzereau, Laurent, writer, director, producer. “Rear Window Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic.” Rear Window, Collector’s Edition DVD. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Universal City, California: Universal Studios Home Video, 2001.
Friedkin, William. Commentary track. The French Connection, Collector’s Edition DVD. Directed by William Friedkin. Los Angeles, California: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2005.
Lester, Richard, director and Walter Shenson, producer. “The Production Will Be Second to None,” “The Principal Filmmakers,” and “Look at My Direction.” Supplemental material, Disc 2. A Hard Day’s Night, the Miramax Collector’s Series DVD. Directed by Richard Lester. Burbank, California: Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 1964.
SCREENPLAY EXCERPTS AND FRAME GRABS
The author acknowledges the copyright owners of the following motion pictures from which single frames and screenplay excerpts have been used in this book for purposes of commentary, criticism, and scholarship under the Fair Use Doctrine.
A Hard Day’s Night, the Miramax Collector’s Series DVD. Directed by Richard Lester. Burbank, California: Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 1964. All Rights Reserved.
Body Heat, deluxe edition DVD. Directed by Lawrence Kasdan.
Burbank, California: Warner Home Video, Inc., 2006. All Rights Reserved.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Directed by George Roy Hill. Beverly Hills, California: Twentieth Century Fox Entertainment, 1969. All Rights Reserved.
Chinatown. Directed by Roman Polanski. Hollywood, California: Paramount Home Entertainment, 1974. All Rights Reserved.
The Big Chill, 15th Anniversary Collector’s Edition DVD. Directed by Lawrence Kasdan. Culver City, California: Columbia/Tristar Home Video, 1998. All Rights Reserved.
The French Connection, Collector’s Edition DVD. Directed by William Friedkin. Los Angeles, California: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2005. All Rights Reserved.
The Graduate. Directed by Mike Nichols. Santa Monica, California: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment, 1969. All Rights Reserved.
Rear Window, Collector’s Edition DVD. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Universal City, California: Universal Studios Home Video, 2001. All Rights Reserved.
Twelve Angry Men. Decades Collection DVD. Directed by Sidney Lumet. Beverly Hills, California: Twentieth Century Fox Entertainment, 1957. All Rights Reserved.
SONGS
“Can’t Buy Me Love,” Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
© 1964 Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. All rights administered by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, 8 Music Square West, Nashville, Tennessee 37203. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
“I Heard It Through The Grapevine,” Words and Music by Norman J. Whitfield and Barrett Strong. © 1966 (Renewed 1994) Jobete Music Co., Inc.
All Rights Controlled and Administered by EMI Blackwood Music, Inc. on behalf of Stone Age Music (A Division of Jobete Music Co., Inc.) All Rights Reserved. International Copyright Secured. Used by Permission.
“Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head,” from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Lyric by Hal David, Music by Burt Bacharach. Copyright © 1969 (Renewed) Casa David, New Hidden Valley Music and WB Music Corp. International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission of Alfred Publishing Co., Inc.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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BOBBIE O’STEEN is a writer based in New York City. She developed her passion for movies at an early age, watching her father, film editor Richard Meyer (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, God’s Little Acre, Winning). Before pursuing film herself, she earned a degree in anthropology at Stanford University and worked with such luminaries as Ray Bradbury and Howard Fast, adapting their novels into screenplays. Shortly after, she joined the ranks of editors, receiving an Emmy nomination for the television movie Best Little Girl in the World and assisting on feature films such as Straight Time and Hurricane. In 2002, she wrote a critically acclaimed book on her collaborator and husband of 23 years, legendary film editor Sam O’Steen. Since then, Bobbie has been interviewed extensively about O’Steen’s career, notably for the DVD editions of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Graduate.
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