Ingrid,
Thanks for the comments on distant composition in shots. (I wonder what
Bazin had to say about the stylistics of distant, middle and foreground
compostions? And where?) Two following ideas I particularly liked in what
you said were.
First, the importance of the viewers blink. A film proposition has to be a
communicative as a propoposition. Whatever 'necessity' there is in the
length of a shot has to be, as it were, an objective characteristic of
subjects, whether showing or viewing.
Second, about a sound provoking a cut. The relation between the sound and
the sight images - perhaps I should say the sound and sight components of
the one image - seem very interesting in this context.
Ross
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