Visual Arts: Looking at Movies

The word "movies" conjures up the idea of an entertaining stream of moving pictures. However, the perception has altered after reading the first two chapters of "Looking at Movies." Videos provide more than just amusement. They convey societal truths and have an impact on choices regarding important life concerns.
Movies provide a chance to highlight the subtle details of the actors and offer a wide field of view on numerous platforms, advantages not available in stage performances. Interpretative analysis is not possible due to the frequent changes in pictures and scenarios, unlike in paintings and photographs. Progressively, the grammar of films evolved to enhance automatic visual interpretation of movies concerning real life.
Question 4
Viewers' awareness is minimized by polished continuity and smooth transitions.
Question 5
Cultural invisibility refers to the alignment of the movie with the viewers' fundamental beliefs whereas cinematic obscurity is the concurrence with the viewers' perceptions of actors and directors.
Question 6
Explicit meaning refers to the shallow or surface meaning whereas implicit meaning implies the analytical purpose.
Question 7
Previous experience with an actor triggers prejudice when their roles contradict the perceived.
Question 8
Experience with directors, accounts of the movie, and advertisements affect the reception of a new movie.
Question 9
Formal analysis seeks to unravel the composition, meaning, mood, sound, design, and performance. Alternative analyses include comparative and linguistic which scrutinize the cultural and language skills exploited.
Question 10
Evidently, the scope of learning about movies is limitless due to the role they play and the diversity of the creativity.
Chapter Two
Question 1
Content deals with the information to be passed whereas form implies the mechanism of relaying the information. Both are interdependent for the success of a movie.
Question 2
The use of hypothetical hints, imagery, color schemes, sounds, and camera movement are the forms that can be exploited to satisfy viewers' expectations.
Question 3
Parallel editing allows for the merging of distinct shots to create a coincidence. It allows for flow in the movie; an exploitation of pattern.
Question 4
Narrative and non-narrative patterns and pattern break up add to the meaning of movies by informing of different scenes.
Question 5
Movies create an illusion of movement through the interaction of the persistence of vision and the phi phenomenon.
Question 6 and 7
Due to the interdependence of space and time, movies swoop scenes coupled to shift the emotional or psychological atmosphere.
Question 8
Realism is the effect of exhibiting realistic scenes whereas antirealism is the depiction of imaginary or perceived scenes. In both instances verisimilitude; the appearance of being real must be guaranteed.
Question 9
Cinematic language refers to the accepted and conventional means of communicating to the viewers. It packages the various effects in the movie to pass the desired information.
Question 10
As viewers, we identify with a camera lens since it constitutes part of the anatomy of our eyes.