Launching the Imagination / Pg. 287-311 / 355
Launching the Imagination / Pg. 287-311 / 355
Time Design:
Artists and designers have sought to create images, objects, and archictureal works that embody and express the most profound aspects of human experience. Visions of love and hate, life and death, and the beauty of nature fills the walls of any art museum or gallery.
Aspects and Elements of Time:
Through out many pieces, an understanding of time is an essential aspect of teh work. Like gravity, time itself is intangible.
Photographers, videographers, book artists, and filmmakers are especially sensitive to the importance of time.
Meanings unfold through the passage of time. By selecting and composing each moment, we can turn the most mundane event into a memorable experience.
Building Blocks: The sequential structures used in film, video, and graphic novels are generally composed using four basic units: Frame, Shot, Scene, and Sequence.
Frame: A single static image. Projected onto a flat screen, a film frame is governed by the same compositional forces as a painting, a poster, or a photograph.
Example:
Close-up: In the first frame shows the gasoline can that is the source of the fire.
Medium shot: the second frame shows the parking lot in which the fire has been set.
Long Shot: The final frame shows the fire in a larger context.
Shot: a continuous group of frames.
Scene: constructed from continuous action in a continuous space.
Sequence: a collection of related shots and scenes that constitute a major section of action or narration.
Relationships:
Graphic Relationship: Connects two or more images through visual similarity.
Spatial Relationship: can expand or compress the stage on which an action occurs.
Temporal Relationship: Can establish chronology, the order in which events occur.
Flashbacks: A story may be told through a simple sequence of events or be reorganized using this.
Rhythmic Relationship: When many shots are combined, a deliberate rhythmic relationship can be developed.
Crosscutting: Altering between the two, Hitchcock created a powerful rhythm and established a simultaneous temporal relationship.
Transitions:
Cut: A cut is an abrupt transition that may connect very different images or very similar images, depending on the effect required.
Fade: The shot slowly darkens or lightens.
Dissolve:as one shot fades, another appears
Lap dissolve: Two shots are superimposed briefly
Wipe: More abrupt than a fade but softer than a cut. In a wipe, the first shot seems to be pushed off the screen by the second.
Action-to-Action transitions: Capturing sequential moments within an event, the action-to-action transitions is clear and strait forward.
Subject-to-subject transitions: Two shots within the same scene are juxtaposed.
Scene-to-scene transition: requires more reader involvement.
Non-sequitur transition: requires even more reader involvement. Because there is no logical relationship between shots, meaning must be invented.
Moment-to-moment transitions: Used when a character or situation is simply being observed over time.
Aspect-to-aspect transition: used to record different views within a scene. The passage of time slows as we scrutinize our surroundings.
Duration:
Refers to three things: Running time of a film, video, or performance; the time covered by the events depicted in the story; and the overall span of time the story encompasses.
Tempo: Refers to the speed at which time passes.
Intensity: refers to the level of energy in a performance or the quality of observation of an event.
Scope:
Can be defined in two ways:
Conceptually, it is the extent of our perception or the range of ideas our minds can grasp. Temporally, scope refers to the range of action within a given moment.
Setting: One of the most complex aspects of time. It includes physical and temporal location of a story, its props and costumes, and the use of sound.
Time Design:
Artists and designers have sought to create images, objects, and archictureal works that embody and express the most profound aspects of human experience. Visions of love and hate, life and death, and the beauty of nature fills the walls of any art museum or gallery.
Aspects and Elements of Time:
Through out many pieces, an understanding of time is an essential aspect of teh work. Like gravity, time itself is intangible.
Photographers, videographers, book artists, and filmmakers are especially sensitive to the importance of time.
Meanings unfold through the passage of time. By selecting and composing each moment, we can turn the most mundane event into a memorable experience.
Building Blocks: The sequential structures used in film, video, and graphic novels are generally composed using four basic units: Frame, Shot, Scene, and Sequence.
Frame: A single static image. Projected onto a flat screen, a film frame is governed by the same compositional forces as a painting, a poster, or a photograph.
Example:
Close-up: In the first frame shows the gasoline can that is the source of the fire.
Medium shot: the second frame shows the parking lot in which the fire has been set.
Long Shot: The final frame shows the fire in a larger context.
Shot: a continuous group of frames.
Scene: constructed from continuous action in a continuous space.
Sequence: a collection of related shots and scenes that constitute a major section of action or narration.
Relationships:
Graphic Relationship: Connects two or more images through visual similarity.
Spatial Relationship: can expand or compress the stage on which an action occurs.
Temporal Relationship: Can establish chronology, the order in which events occur.
Flashbacks: A story may be told through a simple sequence of events or be reorganized using this.
Rhythmic Relationship: When many shots are combined, a deliberate rhythmic relationship can be developed.
Crosscutting: Altering between the two, Hitchcock created a powerful rhythm and established a simultaneous temporal relationship.
Transitions:
Cut: A cut is an abrupt transition that may connect very different images or very similar images, depending on the effect required.
Fade: The shot slowly darkens or lightens.
Dissolve:as one shot fades, another appears
Lap dissolve: Two shots are superimposed briefly
Wipe: More abrupt than a fade but softer than a cut. In a wipe, the first shot seems to be pushed off the screen by the second.
Action-to-Action transitions: Capturing sequential moments within an event, the action-to-action transitions is clear and strait forward.
Subject-to-subject transitions: Two shots within the same scene are juxtaposed.
Scene-to-scene transition: requires more reader involvement.
Non-sequitur transition: requires even more reader involvement. Because there is no logical relationship between shots, meaning must be invented.
Moment-to-moment transitions: Used when a character or situation is simply being observed over time.
Aspect-to-aspect transition: used to record different views within a scene. The passage of time slows as we scrutinize our surroundings.
Duration:
Refers to three things: Running time of a film, video, or performance; the time covered by the events depicted in the story; and the overall span of time the story encompasses.
Tempo: Refers to the speed at which time passes.
Intensity: refers to the level of energy in a performance or the quality of observation of an event.
Scope:
Can be defined in two ways:
Conceptually, it is the extent of our perception or the range of ideas our minds can grasp. Temporally, scope refers to the range of action within a given moment.
Setting: One of the most complex aspects of time. It includes physical and temporal location of a story, its props and costumes, and the use of sound.
Works Cited:
Steward, Mary. Launching the Imagination: A Comprehensive Guide to Basic Design. 4th ed.
New York, Ny: McGraw-Hill, 2012, 2008, 2006, 2002. Print
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