I really liked when Dorsky talked about how film affects our emotions and metabolism. It makes me think of Terry Linehan saying that the only purpose of our stories is to elicit emotion. It's so true, but it is so hard, at least for me. I liked that he gave the example of coming out of some movies feeling abused, I've never had it so bad that I couldn't make eye contact with people, but I know exactly what he means. that's why I have a hard time going to see movies by myself is because I always want to talk about what I just saw after it's over. I really like hearing what other people thought about the movie too, especially if they are also film studies majors...haha and everyone else, but I think it's a little different.
I like also that he kept talking about how the camera is an art medium, because that really does bring out the beauty of a film, if it is indeed filmed well. A lot of people don't notice that kind of thing, and a lot of popular films don't give it the respect it deserves, but Dorsky is true for making that point and really praising it. I need to get more experience behind a camera, especially while I still have access to all of this equipment, it's just so expensive...I hate to waste it and mess up.
After hearing him describe all of those films and their scene breakdowns I know that I need to go rent those as soon as possible, like tonight. Watching artisticly successful films really does paint the picture and instead of reading about it you can visualize it.
It was refreshing to hear him talk about the cuts, and how important they are. and it gives me hope that he's a successful editor. when I picture how i want a film to be in my head it's usually just a clash and mix up of a bunch of random, beautifully composed yet vague images...not much of a story line or camera movement. I think it's kind of my way of working backwards from the edit to exactly what is being filmed. I don't think much about narrative, but more about juxtaposing interesting images, and just making a work of art, with no real purpose, but just emotion. It is a real downer that I won't be working much with the edit for our class project, I know jos will do good though.
one last thing that i really liked was how he talked about how we perceive our world around us, and if things really looked that way or if it's just the way our brains make them look. I don't think that many people think about the world we live in that way, but you have to think...that animals probably have a different visual representation of their world, so who knows. That is an interesting point in filmmaking though because we have complete control in terms of changing our perception of the space that is the story world, like making the sky green or soemthing.
I hope that our film succeeds in evoking emotion in our audience, being played over and over again repeatedly, that it stays focused, and that it manipulates the camera and it's film's medium to it's artistic capacity, and I can't wait to keep working on it!
