Chapter 7Organizing Cinematic Time and Space
Film is a medium. A medium is based on an agreement, a contract that has developed over a long period during which the speaker and the listener, the picture maker and the viewer, performer and audience, have established a system of meanings: a vocabulary, syntax and grammar of the language being used. For this reason, language emerges slowly, and will continue to evolve for as long as audiences and authors develop new ways of expressing themselves.
Alexander Mackendrick, On Film-Making1
■ The Visual Language of Documentary
Cinema is an art that offers a rich visual language that has developed over a 100-year history and is still growing. In documentary, this visual language references reality, ...
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