Exercise 3
When watching a movie, I never really thought to look at it
from this aspect. In the second video, he said within “6 seconds of length this
montage includes 12 different shots so roughly half a second each”, basically
they took 12 different videos and made them half a second each and then make it
around 6 seconds. Which can seem like a lot of work but watching the movie you wouldn’t
think so. which is cool because I now can see the work that it takes to actually
make a good movie. The cool part is I totally
agree with the person talking it does force you to feel something, seeing the
rush of 12 different shots in 6 seconds.
The next video I found interesting was the Blue Velvet
Opening sequence. They start the video off with music and different scenes,
which causes you to wonder what’s going to happen next. Later the man pulls a muscle,
and a lot of things happen at once. A dog and baby came, the man was on the ground
and the water is spraying everywhere. All of that happening at once is a lot that
stimulates all your senses, to the point that you're thrown off guard when they
start to switch it up and zoom into the grass. watching that and hearing the
music makes you anxious because you don’t know what’s going to pop up next. I feel
like that’s a good movie opening because it challenges the mind of the viewers
and makes you want to keep watching. Which would be a great tactic for this
project.
A potential theme within your written response, which might apply to your own project, seems to be loading up content into a short span of time. Both Lynch's opening scene and the montage sequence from Requiem pack information into a short sequence, almost to the point of evading the viewer's perception. In the case of Requiem, there is a cinematic term that is instructive: Content Curve. The content curve is a pseudo-psychological element that film editors sometimes consider. It involves how long a piece of visual information rests on screen before the viewer can comfortably receive it. Conversely, cutting AFTER the content curve can sometimes be an interesting way to create tension, humor, or discomfort in the viewer in that the viewer has the feeling that "Yeah, we got it already!" The Requiem montage cuts BEFORE the content curve, making it feel almost stressful for the viewer to try to grasp and perceive every bit of information. Such a montage experiment might be interesting for you to pursue for this project! In that this response only addresses two pieces (which it does quite well), I encourage you to give the other pieces and clips another try. There are so many interesting connections between the works that will help you to expand your experience with time-based media.
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