CTCS 190g Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Proxemics
1 Mar 2017
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Mark of an artist-->arouse the same feeling in someone else. Split screen/fraction of the frame=change the shape of the frame=matting. 6 zones of off-screen space a) b) c) d) Fill the frame with couple--as though in love a. Relationship between what is inside and outside the frame. Shape, line, plane and stasis/movement (within the frame) Arrangement of actors in vertical, horizontal, jagged, etc. lines=different meanings. Planes a) b) c) d) e) f) g) h) Proxemic patterns outside the frame (between spectacle and spectator); focal length of the lens and camera distance. Image size: extreme long shot, long shot, medium shot, medium close- up, close-up, and extreme close-up. Extreme long-shot will play longer than extreme close-up--more is going on in the scene iii. Stasis/movement (of the camera): through space and in a fixed position on a tripod. Camera can move or can be static v. vi. vii. The notion of perspective: physical; psychological; ideological implications.
