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METHODS OF EXPRESSION OF DRAMATIC CONTENT
the original and highest form of cinema, the silent, flat film with synchronised or orchestral accompaniment, which is indisputably the most effective medium for the conveyance of the dramatic content of a theme to the mind of an audience.
Examination may first be made, then, of the visual cinema.
(I) The Process of the Visual Cinema
The silent film, in developing the continuity or progress of a theme, attains dramatic effect on an audience by a series of visual images on the screen. Long shots and close ups, straight views and angular views, combine to demonstrate the character of the content of the theme. Only those images which have a definite bearing on this content are shown, and these are represented by means of carefully selected photographic angles, wholly or partially preconceived and indicated in the scenario-plan. The greatest possible emotional effect can be achieved in the smallest amount of time by the arrangement of these visual images, the selection of which is governed by various principles of image montage. This arrangement is also included in the scenario-plan, being carried out in the final act of assemblage. Complete freedom may be exercised in the choice of photographic angles and in the length of the shot {i.e., its number of frames). A film is not, by any stretch of imagination, a mere succession of scenes taken at random, which can be described either singly or consecutively. Rather it is the relation, inter-relation and juxtaposition of these varying lengths of scene which, when combined into a whole, produce filmic effect.
Further analysis of these methods of expression of a theme may be divided into five sections, a sixth being added to consider the advantages, if any, to be derived from the stereoscopic screen and colour film. These sections can be described thus:
(a) Film Psychology, being the expression of inner reality by outward phenomena.
(b) The Expressive Capabilities of the Camera.
(c) The Pictorial Composition of Visual Images.
(d) Constructive Editing and Cutting,
(e) Titles, and the placing thereof.
(/) The Visual Addition of Colour and the Stereoscopic Screen.
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