RHETOR 138 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Antihero, Purple Man, Binoculars
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Upper class suburban, primarily indoors, homes, offices, theatres, restaurants. Single camera, primarily medium- shots/ closeup/ long shots, close up shots. Shaky camera, follow main protagonist, mockumentary/ mockbiopic feel. Opening credits, diegetic sounds, scenes are punctuated with non-diegetic sounds. 30 minute comedy special that functions in an anthology style. Scene: first sexual encounter, juxtaposed with guys at the movie (love for comics) Question: how is tension between openness and closure maintained. Asks us to consider if humanity had the technology to overwrite the human brain. Dollhouse is the constant even when each character is wiped clean after an encounter. How to mesh operational, invisible and invisible aethestic to create a. International episodes- foreign context of episodes provide audience experience outside of ordinary (more appealing and entertaining) Cinematography, edting and performance: camera everywhere, different angles, editing: brief between the people, activity and place, emphasis on the unfamiliar location, performance: celebrities are focus of the show, natural interaction with their cameraman.
