INI100H1 Lecture Notes - Cinematic Techniques, Citizen Kane, Long Shot
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Assumes that perceivers of art are actively engaged. They detect patterns and make sense of them. Second it assumes that the artwork actively draws us into these activities. Art and its perceiver exist in an active interdependent relationship. Work of art is not random and unordered, but is presented actively on screen. The manner in which the parts fit together to make a whole. Just as the relationship between the artwork and perceiver is codependent, so are the different elements as part of film form. Overall system of relations that we can perceive among the film elements in the whole film. (film art, p. 55) definition must always combine both the artwork and its beholder. Form is the dimension of the artwork where its relationship with the perceiver occurs. Viewers constantly holding hypotheses, art fills these expectations. If the audience has no idea what is going to occur they would not be able to focus.