from the primitive era...
The use of deep-focus cinematography on long duration shots is central to the mode of film style in the Primitive Era of cinema. Here is a silent film, of its purpose to document the London streets, far away from the formal narrative phase of cinema which blossomed at the start of 1910s. Remarkably, i find this piece of art most objective, almost true to primitive cinema's purpose, to recreate life as it is.
More films this week, glad my load went light after my last week's Thursday.
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I greatly enjoyed Dan North's Transformers II piece!
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The use of deep-focus cinematography on long duration shots is central to the mode of film style in the Primitive Era of cinema. Here is a silent film, of its purpose to document the London streets, far away from the formal narrative phase of cinema which blossomed at the start of 1910s. Remarkably, i find this piece of art most objective, almost true to primitive cinema's purpose, to recreate life as it is.
More films this week, glad my load went light after my last week's Thursday.
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I greatly enjoyed Dan North's Transformers II piece!
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HarryTuttle · 819 weeks ago
Large shot scale :
"Long shot" refers to the size of the frame (wider angle = short focal). The frame is big enough to see characters from head to toes.
I don't like the English term "long shot" because it is confusing time (shot duration) and space (shot scale). So I prefer to say "wide shot", it is more intuitively understandable. In French we say "plan d'ensemble" (ensemble shot).
Long duration shot:
"Plan sequence" means that a scene/sequence is uninterrupted by cuts, so lasts from end to end of a single shot.
Anyway that's a very interesting film there. Most "contemplative" filmmakers today seem to come back to this type of shots, and even claim directly their inspiration from early cinema.
AD! · 819 weeks ago
I got the term 'Large Shot Scale' from Bordwell's book on Classical Hollywood Cinema, Chap 27: Deep-Focus Cinematography. He used it in a very ambiguous way referring to what i thought a 'plan sequence'. Hmmm... i better reread the whole chapter again to understand what he meant..
Yeah, i agree with you, LONG SHOT is a very confusing term. Many critics use the term to mean the same thing (both duration and shot scale). I prefer using 'LONG SHOTS' (for the shot scale) and 'LONG DURATION SHOT' (for the shot duration).
Anyways, thanks for dropping by!
HarryTuttle · 819 weeks ago
http://classes.yale.edu/film-analysis/htmfiles/ci...
AD! · 819 weeks ago