ARTH 271 Lecture Notes - Medium Shot, Data Compression
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Single most important figure in the history of western art -more important than shakesepeare, motsart, betoven, ect. Because he took a medium and reidentified it. One famous move by griffith was titled for the love of gold. he went from a long shot to a medium shot in the middle of the action, which hadn"t been done before. This change of focal length helps to emphasize emotion. Rather than think they wont follow, experiment and that"s what he did, realizing that they liked it a lot. First shot of girl crying at the sea for her husband. Srcond shot close up of crying face, to get this shot the camera turned around. Then it shot her husband stranded on an island. The audience gets to use their imagination to infer whether this is him in real life or him in her thoughts. Griffith"s innovations and refinements (not all his innovations, but he refined them)
