'That's Entertainment "Making Meaning in Films



The cinema has become, perhaps after television, the most popular form of visual entertainment in the modern world. Every night, millions of people sit down to watch a movie or on television, a video movie, or a movie in the theater.

All, however, have been in communication with the messages on the film.

Unlike print, which uses the word, or music, which uses sound amid the film uses several different "paths" to reach your target audience. These are the images, music, dialogue, sound and written documentation.

These five are mixed by producers of the film to form a "language", although that is not the word of the language, phrase or text, but sign language. The language of cinema is the language of semiotics, the sign language.

The term "significant" is used to refer to the physical form of the signal. In a movie, this could be a smile, a red traffic light, dramatic music, with a shout, or the words of a letter that someone is reading. A smile can mean happiness, joy or love, but it can also mean a victory of any kind to the person smile. A cry generally means danger or pain of some kind, but it may depend on the context in which the cry is heard. The word "dog", for example, in English, is the canine species as familiar to animal lovers, and that despite the fact that there is absolutely nothing "like a dog" in the letters of DOG. The word is also important.

The green light stops traffic would confuse everyone.

A cry heard in a local football game can mean only one goal was scored in battle, someone was fatally injured. For example, if the first shot is a bomb showing a falling plane, and the second shows a burning village, the public will assume that the bombs hit the village and destroyed.

This has its equivalent in the language as well.
A: The bombs fell from the plane.
B: The village was completely destroyed ..
What works in a movie sometimes works with the language as well.

In movies today, it is used wisely, and recalls the director, Alfred Hitchcock would advice for filmmakers; "Do not say, show." This suggests that the five "tracks" of film language are more powerful when used together than just speak in the film. The scenes where he shows his true colors, not surprising in a public expects an exotic shape of the high-tech Bond opponent brutality.

In a sense, the "language" of the film extends the communication to us on a number of films, and to that extent, can be said of James Bond films to be formulaic and predictable. Give the public what they want, however, works at the box office; selling suites.

Trailers, ads, and almost innate knowledge of modern sessions on stars and producers merge to ensure that all the blockbusters of the industry make money.

More public unconsciously bring what has been called the "willing suspension of disbelief" to perform and this is more obvious and necessary for the public to watch live entertainment, it is still a vital part of the participation of a public cinema. Some film theorists point to the fact that a three-dimensional image in depth and scope, is designed in a two-dimensional screen and still perceived as being in three dimensions, as proof that the public is willing to suspend some disbelief. Technology giants of the film industry is so extraordinary as to make this statement a lot of sense.

In the movie "The Lord of the Rings", for example, the appearance of huge mammoths among thousands of Orcs looked really scared not require much suspension of disbelief; while watching this wonderful film is well aware that the absence of such creatures around the world. When disbelief must be suspended, initially, it is to enter the world of dragons, dwarves and hobbits of Tolkien. The total universe of Middle-earth is subtly designed. An inability to be completely absorbed in this world can interfere with any pleasure gained from watching the movie, or you can prevent that person to see the movie first.

Art is not nature, art holds a mirror of nature, or we say, but it is exploration and choose which part of nature is reflected which makes the film so fascinating and significant. People watching the film in the splendid isolation of the dark room to enjoy a form of entertainment in which this form of communication works only door to the stage they can: their participation in the culture in which they live, and their desire to know they do not they are alone in this world.

It is this identification with the characters of the film that its review of the same. Bertolt Brecht knew and took steps to avoid it, but Hollywood revels in it. Theorizing that critical studies of the university over the media. "Not a dry eye in the house is what all successful filmmaker points.

The public can not really imagine. The cries were caused by the shock of the situation; the extreme levels of identification with the victim feeling helpless victim of any screen, or the public, unable to stop the attack.

Why then people voluntarily go to see a movie they know, even hope, will terrorize?

Cinema is not a community event is an individual step. The film on the big screen can not be stopped.

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