Alright, so I gotta put down my steamin’ blues harp and write a little FTC before bed. I’m no great blogger, but Stephanie has called me out on it so now I gotta get back into things.
SO the spear danes in days gone by… no that’s not right. SO the most interesting thing from the last class (better) for me was the thought that the cuts in a film are the film’s meter. I’ll say right up front that I’m a scansion geek, I will smile if you speak in iambs for more than a few feet. I’ll have to investigate it closer, but I think it might be right, the beats of a movie are the cuts. Being a poor movie-watcher, I tend to get caught up in movies to where I miss most meta-clues that I assume are scattered around when they are in film specific wrapping. But I’ll try to pay some more attention to cuts and then I will get back to you about what I think of movie-meters. Tonight I watched Dead Ringers by Cronenberg and though it mostly made me want to hide my eyes, I did notice the film-iamb coming into play. It seems a staple of dialog, to break up a speaker’s words by looking at the other guy (or in the case of Dead Ringers, the same guy). One guy talks-look at the other (maybe he says a little). First guy talks some more- cut to other guy (maybe says a little). After a while, they might switch.
Of course, meter and cuts are just analogous, not exact, but the analogy allows me an entrypoint into understanding the art of cuts. So bear with me.
Blogging is tricky- it didn’t seem like it would be so hard to keep current, but I always fall behind and never read as many as I should. I wonder if anyone else is having trouble adjusting to the new century? Should figure out that RSS thingamabob, I guess.
Should go to bed. But maybe a little more blues, first.