Film as the modern tool of persuasion
In a group of 2 or 4 answer these questions:
What is film?
In the group compare and contrast your summaries of your interviews and see if:
Did anyone in your interviews mention cinema or movies as a technology?
If so, what did they say?
If not, what does the absence of movies from your interviews say about cinema as a modern technology for the people you spoke to?
What is a movie?
| technical | technological |
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| photographic exposures | interdependent devices and set organization must be fit together. |
| images in sequence | "shooting" a series of still photo "takes" |
| Kinetic + scope = kinetescope | cutting and piecing together of exposures. |
| Speed of the film run sich that the frames appear to generate motion. | The story board is translated into photography amd spliced into an order. |
| The illusion of motion because the eyes are limited in their capacity. | Story telling through images and language, sound and light create symbolic meaning. |
Select a film to see and ask yourself to what extent we are influenced by images, symbols and ideological perspectives we obtain from media.
Media is from medium -- it refers to the means of transmitting the content of a message.
What we know of any messages' meaning depends on the technical ways we use to communicate?
A. Yes, it does depend on media's capabilities, or
B. No, it's meaning doesn't rely on the media used, or
C. I do not know?
Simple:
What we know is based on how we know.
Not so simple:
How we know determines to some great extent what we can know.
Complexity emerges:
Can both be true; and thus knowledge is reiterating over and over in language, images and emotions, an ever deepening internal dialogue about meaning?
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