Friday, July 23, 2010

more notes for class

this is an odd category - but it's multichannel edits, of a sort, done by the action in the ilm -
my two examples - both of which I love - are
1. the swinging kitchen door in Rope, which blocks and then reveals the murderer dropping the rope into a kitchen drawer, then coming out with another helpful tray (above shows the door, even though you can't see it in motion - reed farrington's play showed this exactly)
2. the passage of a streetcar in front of MIchael York, arriving in Berlin for the first time, under what i think are the very end of the credits in Cabaret.  the camera's on the other side of the streetcar, so MIchael York, playing the newly arrived Brian, is seen in each window and turns just slightly in each one.

the above fotos aren't that shot, obviously, but a nice use of a reflection elsewhere in cabaret to distort the texture --  in some made-up reflective surface in the club.

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