Film Theory

[carllooper]

The following is the beginning of a script for a film I'll be making in due course - but the script begins in Film Theory (and ends there for the time being) ...

http://members.iinet.net.au/~carllooper ... Theory.pdf

[richard p. t.]

Hi there Carl,
I read your pdf just now. I am going to send you a pm.
cheers,
richard

[Wade]

I suppose Bazin could consider Red Balloon to be realist partly because it is very weak theater. Albeit lyrical it has a little bit more of what Bresson would have called “cinematography” than it has theater.

[carllooper]

I suppose Bazin could consider Red Balloon to be realist partly because it is very weak theater. Albeit lyrical it has a little bit more of what Bresson would have called “cinematography” than it has theater.

Bazin's argument is that the deception (or trick) owes nothing to photography. As a TV magician might say: "What you are about to see is not a camera trick".