Saying A Lot With Very Little: The Importance of Simplicity and Its Complications

"If theatre acting is an operation with a scalpel,

film acting is an operation with a laser."

- Michael Caine

With more than eight years of encounter inside those industries, this quote has to be 1 of my favorites, as it describes the precision needed in each realms of storytelling and entertainment, as nicely as the variations in between the two. It is that distinction of precision that drew so numerous in the business towards movie, initially. And, even although that initial draw had brought about immense advances in movie because the 1890's, a lot of that important precision is, sadly, disappearing.

In the early age of movie, not only could the fundamentals of costumes, lighting, set, and actors tell a story, but also a new foundational aspect in the type of the camera lens. The camera brought truer realism to the audience, and also became a voiceless guide unveiling the smallest particulars: from hints of a character's psyche to the unspoken foundation of a partnership. Even even though unveiling these facts is very important, significant motion pictures have forgotten that simplicity due to "crutches" a production from time to time makes use of for a story in order to invoke stronger, but less lasting, feelings.

Some examples of those "crutches" are:

• Implementation of 3D
• Heightened violence, specially in the kind of explosions
• Extended-winded and/or awkward dialogues that more than-clarify details
• Photos that never grab the audience by the hand, but rather by the throat

I consider half of the reasoning behind the overuse of those "crutches" is the fact that human beings are generally asking, "Now what? What subsequent?" If they have observed or filmed motion pictures shot in a distinct style or with particular components, they want to see what else they can implement that tends to make their project focus grabbing (and who does not like the awestruck feeling one particular gets even though we see anything that we have not knowledgeable in real life). I believe the other half is spectacle in order to get "butts into seats" while it opens in theatres. It is a promoting tactic, but should not the point of a movie also be to tell a story?

This is why I had such a amazing time functioning out the shots for a movie of ours we just wrapped on. The movie requires many sophisticated simplicity, which turns the atmosphere into as a great deal of a character as the protagonist we stick to all through the story. It pushed me to seriously feel on the composition of the shot and how it could be engaging devoid of lots of monologues (and no dialogue!). There have been no "crutches" we could have implemented (and ones that would make sense) so we had to hold on to that laser precision; from the actions and reactions of the protagonist, to how to effectively visually emphasize the obstacles he faced, when somehow producing it oddly relatable, in spite of the character's intense situations.

With that simplicity came the manifestation of a truly fantastic story, one particular about a person's endurance and facing ones self, which can from time to time be the worst obstacle doable. We want the audience to attention on connecting to the character, converse about the story, and relate to it from their personal life, with out distracting components pulling their interest away from what is actually going on in the movie. This production neither expected nor implemented any "crutches" - just passion and a willingness to perform challenging for that laser-like precision.