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A 3 page research paper/essay that analyzes and discusses the visual effects in a student’s short film. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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naturally governs both the movement of the actors, as well as the perception of the audience. Bobker (1974) points out that the element that differentiates acting on film as
opposed to acting on stage within the context of live theatre is the camera. In theatre, the audience sees the stage from a fixed viewpoint, but in film the actor
is shown from a variety of perspectives, as the camera can "be on all sides of the actor; it can be far away or unbearably close," which means that the
slightest "false move, one phony gesture, one line delivered without conviction or out of character, and the illusion is destroyed" (Bobker, 1974, p. 158). The illusion in the students
film is based on viewers tendency to make visual assumptions. The principle behind this is perhaps best illustrated by an Ames Room, which is a room constructed so that the
ceiling descends toward one end, which is then disguised by the manner in which black boxes are painted on the walls. The eye assumes that the black lines on the
wall are rectangular and that the room has a conventional shape. The result is that a woman standing at one of the room looks 8 feet tall while a woman
at the other end looks miniscule (Holme, et al, 1972). This perception is based on visual assumptions, and these same assumptions pertain to a students short film. In the
opening segment of the film, the viewer sees a woman who is presumably defying gravity as she descents to a post that appears to be sticking out of a
wall. This dissolves into an image of the same young woman now suspended from the same post by her arms, and she appears to be just barely hanging on and
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