Cinematographic

Principle and the

Ideogram

Mary Lordi, Joshua Haimann, Steph Olson,

Mike Amaya, Steve Garcia, Aliesia Daley

➔combining multiple shots to create a single meaning.

➔“Montage is conflict”➔Examples of conflict:1.close shots & long shots2.lightness and darkness3.events and duration

Intellectual Montage

● Japanese Cinema has no concept of a

montage

● Cinematography is, first and foremost,

montage

Cinema

HieroglyphsHsiang Cheng & Huei-i

Hieroglyphs cont.

“Copulation of two hieroglyphs is to be

regarded not as their sum, but as their product;

a value of another dimension, another degree.”

● Separately relates to an object

● Combination refers to a concept

Examples

● Dog + a mouth = “to bark”

● A mouth + a child = “to scream”

● A mouth + a bird = “to sing”

● A knife + a heart = “sorrow”

Haiku- montage phrases or short lists

The haiku is a concentrated impressionist sketch:

5-7-5 format

A lonely crow

On leafless bough,

One autumn eve.

BASHO

Tanka

- Tanka is a Japanese five-line poem.

- Literally means "short song"

- Example:

- "Nature means no harm

Though she brings us warnings

Quiet and with care

She does lavish us time

And would rather stay friends."

Tanka and Montage- The lines are montage

phrases

- The combination of two or

three details of a material

yields a perfectly finished

representation of another kind:

psychological.

Cinematographic Conflicts

- Montage is conflict

- Conflict of...

- Graphic Directions - Masses

- Scales - Depths

- Volumes

Unexpected Conflicts

- Conflicts between an object and its dimension

- Distorted lenses

- Conflicts between an event and its dimension

- Slow motion/Stop motion