Moving image is a kind of new art form when compared with some traditional graphic art forms. I am really interested in moving image art cause I like watching movie. No matter contemporary movies produced by Hollywood or some black and white movies produced in early time, all sort of movies attract me very much. Through listening Eidon Booth's lecture about moving image, I understood more facts about moving image making and how it made. Some terms that mentioned by Eidon Booth are very important in making moving image like montage, panning, split screen, editing and so on.
Another issue mentioned in Edion Booth's lecture is about what moving image represent. Some people might say reality, because things like TV program, movie are all acted and played by real person and events happened in movies are commonly happened in real world as well. Others would say illusion, because some of the programs are edited from fiction or some airy play. In my opinion, Moving image is talk about reality, but the reality has been edited and designed, so I think the relationship between reality and illusion is blurred. I would like to use some of the film terms to discuss Edion Booth's exploration of reality and illusion.
Split screen
One of the videos Edion showed us is a movie that divided in two frames, so viewers can watch two different screen which are talk about different things at the same time. Interestingly, this two frames actually have a connection. By this method, viewers can watch and think about the connection between the two frames. There are lots of television works using this method to represent some social reality. Once I saw a TV program, the screen is divided into three frames. first one is a man illicit intercourse with a beautiful girl on the bed. Second one is the man's wife is doing housework for her husband. The third is the girl's boyfriend is buying red roses for her. The three events are happen at the same time, viewers can watch them and think about more social problems.
Panning
I think panning is a movie style which is more close to our live. Panning is not always happened in old movie. Panning is just like holding a camera we brought and taking video for our friends or record our daily life. And when we project the video we made through camera, we will find the screen is keep shaking. However, this kind of method had been used in Hollywood's film making.Cloverfield, a 2008 American monster movie directed by Matt Reeves. The whole movie just like a video recorded by a war journalist. It's like a person who recorded the whole real disaster happened in New York. It seems like panning is a sort of visual impact that can make people feel something more real.
Another issue mentioned in Edion Booth's lecture is about what moving image represent. Some people might say reality, because things like TV program, movie are all acted and played by real person and events happened in movies are commonly happened in real world as well. Others would say illusion, because some of the programs are edited from fiction or some airy play. In my opinion, Moving image is talk about reality, but the reality has been edited and designed, so I think the relationship between reality and illusion is blurred. I would like to use some of the film terms to discuss Edion Booth's exploration of reality and illusion.
Split screen
One of the videos Edion showed us is a movie that divided in two frames, so viewers can watch two different screen which are talk about different things at the same time. Interestingly, this two frames actually have a connection. By this method, viewers can watch and think about the connection between the two frames. There are lots of television works using this method to represent some social reality. Once I saw a TV program, the screen is divided into three frames. first one is a man illicit intercourse with a beautiful girl on the bed. Second one is the man's wife is doing housework for her husband. The third is the girl's boyfriend is buying red roses for her. The three events are happen at the same time, viewers can watch them and think about more social problems.
Panning
I think panning is a movie style which is more close to our live. Panning is not always happened in old movie. Panning is just like holding a camera we brought and taking video for our friends or record our daily life. And when we project the video we made through camera, we will find the screen is keep shaking. However, this kind of method had been used in Hollywood's film making.Cloverfield, a 2008 American monster movie directed by Matt Reeves. The whole movie just like a video recorded by a war journalist. It's like a person who recorded the whole real disaster happened in New York. It seems like panning is a sort of visual impact that can make people feel something more real.Montage
I still remember Edion once said we create a reality in the screen and the reality we create can help people understand the reality in the real world. To make this thing happen, montage is a great skill to use.
I still remember Edion once said we create a reality in the screen and the reality we create can help people understand the reality in the real world. To make this thing happen, montage is a great skill to use.
" Montage is a technique in film editing in which a series of short shots are edited into a sequence to condense space, time, and information. It is usually used to suggest the passage of time, rather than to create symbolic meaning as it does in Soviet montage theory."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montage_(filmmaking)
Nowadays, the montage is integrate into most of the big budget film productions. This technology is so common in the contemporary film. Each frame's field of view, angles, length and the combination of the frame and audio have montage element. It is observed that the montage has been used while the film started. In the final analysis, montage is way how director talk about a story to audience. Director just use some of the frames which seems illusional to make a real story with full of appeal.
Nowadays, the montage is integrate into most of the big budget film productions. This technology is so common in the contemporary film. Each frame's field of view, angles, length and the combination of the frame and audio have montage element. It is observed that the montage has been used while the film started. In the final analysis, montage is way how director talk about a story to audience. Director just use some of the frames which seems illusional to make a real story with full of appeal.
Thanks Chris,
ReplyDeleteA good description of two of the three terms, however, I think panning is the term for a sweeping shot, often performed with the aid of a "dolly" or trolley on wheels, whereas the jerky movements you seemed to be talking about are more closely related to the term "hand-held."
TX