Sunday, May 1, 2011

On language

Shot Reverse Shot

           (Some Like It Hot, 1959)
Shot                                                                              Reverse Shot
Establishing an object in a finite space.                Establishing an object in an implied space and
The  movement of the subject and                       time based on the image that preceded it. In
the camera suggest time.                                   reality both space and time are discontinuous
                                                                        in the service of  creating the feel of a          
                                                                        continuous reality. Students of Méliès, more
                                                                        so than human nature.