LIT 155A Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cinematic Techniques, Thomas Edison, Medium Shot
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1917: important linguist roman said study of verbal artifact. Photographic image, paintings, art, sculpture = not proper to cinema. Study of cinema = study of cinematic codes like pic ratio (aspect of when the film was created) Shop ratio, medium shot, close shot, the way those interacts. Shock length = cannot have in photography, proper to cinema and video. Longest is in two hours; the russian arch . Small shots of everything can still make the same picture. It is the graphic outlay of the shot. Psycholinguistics tells us humans make connections under principle of similarities or principle of contiguity. Ex: reading a fb post = principle of similarities. Because you recognize something you have instinctually. Decoding it metaphorically = recognizing an object. Thomas edison was superseded by edwin s. porter. Porter = considered the great cinematic couteur. Describe the relations between the two females. Black woman and white woman are friends.
