II Continuity / Montage
The concept of the scene -- a depiction of a period that is more or less continuous in space and time.
• Continuity: Creating a sense of continuous time and space through shooting and editing techniques
• essential in fiction film, and also in documentary, especially cinema verité (as opposed to interview-driven docs, which use different techniques to produce a sense of reality . . . r).
Five Ways of Conveying Continuity
- • Eyeline
- As discussed
• Reinforced by placement and position of objects from shot to shot (two camera shooting)
- • Ang Lee (dir) Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000) [drive]
- • Follow subject's movement
- • Birdman dir Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2014) (opening scene)
- Apparently one continuous shot -- but is it?
• Continuing camera movement
• Pat O'Neill Water and Power 39:17 - 48:40
complexity of montage, using a variety of techniques. Many types of image are simultaneously fractured and unified by consistent movement or regular rhythmic edits, and the percussion soundtrack
• Audio continuity
- • Steven Soderberg (dir) The Limey (1999) [drive]
Continuity / Montage
• My Blueberry Nights Wong Kar Wei
• Foreign Parts. (2010)
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Christian Marclay Subtitled- discuss
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- Narrative Structures in Cinema[
References:
• Peter Brooks Reading for the Plot
Introduction and summary
SVA Library
• Mieke Bal Narratology (4th Edition 2017)
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