Deconstructing Cinema: Looking at Movies from the Ground Up
As the most complex, sophisticated, and multi-dimensional form of human communication, movies provide a good example of how a consistent model can contribute to the understanding of a particular medium. Figure 3.1 illustrates one method for deconstructing a movie into individual, interrelated layers.
Figure 3.1. The experience of a movie can be deconstructed into nine separate but interrelated layers. By modeling the experience in this way, it is possible to isolate individual components while understanding their influence on the whole.
The model starts with three broad tiers: the ...
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