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QLDFilm, Television and New MediaUnit 4: Artistry
Quick questions on Technologies and artistry: QCE Film, Television and New Media
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What are tool choices as aesthetic choices?Show answer
Every technical choice has an aesthetic consequence:
What is affordances in service of style?Show answer
In Unit 3 affordances enabled participation; in Unit 4 they enable a look. An original example: a student making "Static", a tense one-room thriller, deliberately shoots on an older sensor with visible grain and uses only practical lamps. The technology's affordances (its grain, its limited dynamic range) are chosen because they serve a gritty, unsettled style. A cleaner, newer camera would fight the intended aesthetic.
What is sound technology as an expressive instrument?Show answer
It is easy to think of technology in Unit 4 as only the camera, but sound technology is often where artistry does its quietest, most powerful work. Microphone choice and placement, foley, sound mixing and the manipulation of silence are all expressive technologies. A scene built around a large, blind predator, for example, can make sound technology carry the tension: foley and a carefully mixed near-silence cue the threat that the image withholds, so the audience strains to hear and is positioned inside the characters' fear. Music technology, processing and spatial mixing equally shape mood and meaning.
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