ENGB70H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Lowkey, Gateway Drug Theory, Ingmar Bergman
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> placing walter in between wall frame - how it builds richer self of our understanding of the themes of the film. > idea of continutiy editing as an invisible form of editing - particular type of realism created by editing continuity: realism. As a mode of realism - form is secondary to the story which is embelemed by continuty editing. Continuty editing - series of techniques that gives you a sense of a unifed whole or world. wants you to follow the editing in a good way. > content - resemblance to reality continuty editing techniques - match action, 180 rule, reverse/shot: double indemnity. > shooting characters from behind - paranoid and dark world and feeling of hopelessness. > isolation and shot composition supported the sense that walter lost everything which reinforced his sense of helplessness. > sense of helplessness is a key theme in film noir.
