Mamet, D 1992, ‘Storytelling’, On Directing Film, Penguin, New York, pp.1-8
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The article talks about montage and storytelling. Most American directors make films like records of actors’ lives by following the actors, but there is another way, which suggested by Eisenstein, montage. Montage is raising audience’s reaction to develop the plot by a series of images. The feature of this approach is that it always tell the story by shots. In other words, it is through the juxtaposition of basically irrelevant images to convey the message of the story. The article also compares film to dream. It says a great movie can be as free as a record of a protagonist’s dream. Movies and dreams are similar, all is the juxtaposition of images, and the juxtaposed combination is to answer to a question that can be set.
This article tells me how to tell a story by shots. It gives me a new idea about the comparison between films and dreams. I think I can look at editing from a different way.
The article talks about montage and storytelling. Most American directors make films like records of actors’ lives by following the actors, but there is another way, which suggested by Eisenstein, montage. Montage is raising audience’s reaction to develop the plot by a series of images. The feature of this approach is that it always tell the story by shots. In other words, it is through the juxtaposition of basically irrelevant images to convey the message of the story. The article also compares film to dream. It says a great movie can be as free as a record of a protagonist’s dream. Movies and dreams are similar, all is the juxtaposition of images, and the juxtaposed combination is to answer to a question that can be set.
This article tells me how to tell a story by shots. It gives me a new idea about the comparison between films and dreams. I think I can look at editing from a different way.