Week Six Blogpost

Reflecting on this week’s reading about making arguments without words, how might you convey some of your central ideas, arguments or narrative elements using images and no words? 

With this in mind, how might you respond to this statement in your project: “

The decision to use words minimally represents an attempt to match the film aesthetic to the footage, recognizing that the audience’s focus on creating their own mental representations of the objects represented in the image is in itself the most meaningful goal.” (p. 335).

Through the use of imagery in my film, without using words is something that I want to explore through the use of montages and cinematography. By using voice-overs and my creativity in my shots, I will be able to express the notion of cooking and the creativity behind it, without having to have a voice over or narration directly attached to it – thus, allowing the audience to figure and develop their own ideas for themselves. By shifting the audience’s focus on their own mental representations through the imagery, I am able to allow them to focus on the cinematography of the piece and the nature of the work.