We were asked to read a handout about film this week. There was no title to the piece, but it discussed how video is an art form. It is a form of art that has the ability to take advantage of almost every natural sense of the human body. One of the things from the reading that stuck out to me was what Germaine Dulac said about the meaning of cinema residing in image and not the story. That was true in the early days of cinema as well as today (and much more today, I think). The image of the video is very important in order to connect with the viewers no matter what the story is. The story or plot of a film may be the best ever written, but if the images used to portray that story don't match up, then the movie could be considered worthless and uninteresting.
Another example of this is the current use of special effects. Today's films have been able to utilize special effects in a way that make the action look real. An explosion, a gun shot, or a dead or wounded body are made to look more real than ever now which plays on the emotions of the viewer in thinking that it really is real.
Film has been a blessing to all of us. However, with all of the special effects, I hope that we understand what really is real.
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You know, art elitists would go around saying that film is low art despite all the work and vison that goes into it... and that is why I hate them and they need to die.
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