RLG332H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Vajrayana, Andrei Tarkovsky, Mahayana
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In kundun, the kid is placed in the middle. He has a glow to him, no blocking the sun (kind with the sun) The hat he is wearing is crocked, because he is a scared object but he"s still a child. How the visual materials are staged, framed, and photographed. The frame s aspect ratio: dimensions of screen height and width. The symbolic implications and geography of the frame. Four elements: the staging of the action, the physical setting and d cor, the manner in which these materials are framed, the manner in which they are photographed. Creates drama by the shots that he takes. The manipulation of the camera (slow and steady) About an abandoned space ship, and the crew starts having psychological problems. This is understood differently by three different types of buddhism: theravada, mahayana, vajrayana. In theravada buddhism, the goal is to move from being a bodhisattva to parinirvana (full and complete enlightenment after death)
