GERM 1171 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Proxemics, Long Shot
25 Feb 2019
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Forms in film are not usually pure, they refer specifically to objects in reality. In most cases filmmakers compose on 3 visual planes. This technique provides a sense of depth as well as radically altering the dominant contrast of an image, serving as a kind of qualifying characteristic, either subtle or conspicuous. Space is a medium of communication, and the way we respond to objects and people within a given area is a constant source of information in life as well as in movies. Territories have a spatial hierarchy of power. The most dominant organism of a community is literally given more space whereas the less dominant are crowded together. When a distinguished person enters a crowded room, people instinctively make room for him or her. The movie frame is also a kind of territory, though a temporary one, existing only for the duration of the shot.
