Category: Texture of Time
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Structural Film
Since the mid-1960s, filmmakers such as Michael Snow produced works where simplicity was key. This tendency was labelled structural film. The four main characteristics of structural film are “fixed camera position, the flicker effect, looping, and offscreen photography. Snow is described by critics as the “dean of structural film-makers” who utilizes the tension in his well-known…
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Repeat Cut/ Stutter Cut
A repeat cut is where, in an action scene, you might see the same sequence or shot repeated several times from different angles or perspectives. This is particularly popular with fight scenes and explosions, as the director tries to deliver the maximum visceral payoff to the audience, and use a longer cut section of the…
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Editing Vertical Cinema
Editing is where the art of film takes form. Think of it in the way that grammar makes a book. The stops, the pauses, the paragraph, the joins and the emphasis all work together to to make the film a masterpiece. Editing requires a great attention to detail and an idea of what you want…
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‘Just An Image’
Jean-Luc Godard is a French film maker who was a major figure associated with the movement French New Wave, a film movement characterized by its rejection of the era’s traditional film-making conventions in favor of experimentation and iconoclasm (the breaking/destruction of images.) Godard’s films are a philosophical analysis of image itself and the reflection of…
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Texture of Time
Project Rundown This is a film project for my university Cinematic class where we have been asked to create a response piece to the 2020 pandemic quarantine. We are the reflect on the physical, emotional, material and experiential aspects of time. Politicians have been repeating and repeating the statement “This is an unprecedented time” over…
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