Clarity is Key

Clarity in filmmaking is a really important thing. If a film is confusing in its visuals, it can be next to impossible for an audience to understand the film and, to a further extent, enjoy the film and its characters. Sometimes directors create a scene that is intentionally ambiguous and confusing with its visuals, but it is a great way to distance an audience from your film.

Defining Your Short Film Idea

For homework this weekend I want you to find the focus for your short film.  Each group will turn in their own answers to these questions on Monday.  Take time to think through each of your answers and plan your film.  We will discuss your decisions on Monday as we help to define your project moving forward.  Here is what I want:

Deception in Film

Film is a very powerful tool that can be used in many different ways, good and bad. We learned that with the Kuleshov Effect we can juxtapose two images together to create a brand new emotional connection that previously didn’t exist. There is a very strange reaction that we all have to movies, and that reaction is an emotion. In essence, when we go to see a movie all we are doing is sitting in a dark room with a bunch of strangers and staring at pictures on a wall.

Strange, isn’t it?

The Kuleshov Effect

Watch this clip and be prepared to talk about it: