Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Important to Remember (7 September 2009 continued)

As a part of our discussion on Monday I talked about the grammar of video and gave you a relationship between the elements of written language and motion picture language.  While this is a very simple presentation of the idea it does convey the relationship between the two and importance of understanding the principles and rules of expression as a foundation for your creative work.

The technical relationship:


LANGUAGE   -    MOVING PICTURES
letter                        image
word                        shot
sentence                   sequence
paragraph                 scene
story                         story

in text form:

letters come together to form words, words come together to form sentences, sentences come together to form paragraphs, paragraphs come together to tell a story

images come together to form shots, shots come together to form sequences, sequences come together to form scenes, scenes come together to tell a story

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