MISE EN SCENE

ELEMENTS OF MISE EN SCENE IN POSTMODERN CINEMA   “The production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet.” – Aristotle, Poetics.   And the key machinist is the Director. In cinema the filmmaker is responsible for translating a script into visuals. This is the challenge of directing and this is where directors distinguish themselves as good directors or great directors. Cinema is an audio-visual...

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META-CULT CINEMA

THE LANGUAGE OF META-CULT CINEMA   Film and Video programs are efforts at communicating and just like speaking English, tapping out Morse code, or waving semaphores. There is a whole language that can be discovered including words, phrases, grammar, punctuation, rules, and common practices. This language is called Cinematic Language. It is the combination of methods and skills that filmmakers choose to convey the central message and the main ideas of the...

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FILMONOMICS

WEB SERIES: THE FUTURE OF ENTERTAINMENT   Tired of the same boring programmes on your television? Turn off your television sets. In fact, throw them out. Instead, tune into Web Series which give you a breather from contrived monotonous weepathons on cable networks. As the taste and demands of the new-age viewer changes, content providers are exploring new ways to deliver original programmes specific to the digital audiences. We know a show is a hit...

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