INTRODUCTION
Cinema is a highly collaborative, multimodal, interdisciplinary art form that utilizes visual and aural modes of communication to tell a narrative and convey a message to an audience. The world of cinema is saturated with language, text, and technology. It is a discipline of communication on every level, out of which a complex visual language has developed. In this capstone project, I explore the ways in which cinema as a visual language exploits the human senses in order to convey feelings, thoughts, and ideas.
Cinema, Technology, & VIDEO |
Following the same basic principles of film cinema, video is comprised of still frames played in rapid succession, usually at 24 or 30 frames per second. As one of the most notable advancements in cinematic technology, the introduction of video into the world of motion pictures has caused sweeping changes throughout the industry, and has allowed artists to create motion pictures and visual effects with more tools than ever before. With smart phone technology at a high point today, most Americans hold the tools they need for creating motion pictures in their pockets. Sites like YouTube and Vimeo make consuming and distributing motion pictures easier than ever before. More young people today are learning how to understand and utilize the visual language of cinema.
Cinema as a Visual Language
VISUAL SPACE encompasses all of the perceptual space that makes up the human visual experience. Visual languages rely on the visual space for communication. Filmmakers are highly attentive to the visual details that pass before their viewers’ eyes when they watch a film, and utilize them to affect their audience’s perception of their work.
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the MESSAGE
The message is what cinema is all about, the reason for a visual language to exist at all. The job of a filmmaker is to utilize this visual language to communicate thoughts, emotions, and ideas. Over the past hundred years or so, filmmakers have developed a plethora of diverse conventions and techniques for doing so.
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