Fields and Frames #03

Change of plans.
I will not make an in depth analyses of my works, as I said I would, in the previous post; It's a matter of practicality. I was planing to post in here the videos I've produced , but some of my work is in  Portuguese, which I would have to put subtitles in order to you understand them.

I still haven't got a clue about what to do for this project. However, my aim is to make a comedy piece; hence, I decided to research about the genre.

 It's hard to say why some things are funny and other aren't; this is why I got this book (Film Comedy by Geoff King), which has helped me to stress comedy techniques, some of which I've used in the past.

"Comedy in film, as elsewhere, plays upon a variety of element to achieve its effect. It can only be understood in relation to a number of specific contexts, including many of our basic expectations and assumptions about the world around us."The comedy modality which I enjoy doing has a sense of reality and in some cases cases a real sense of suspense.
 "…there can be no jokes without a dramatic undertow, for there can be no incongruities if there is no emotional tension."

FARSE, in other hand, are in its essence intense, extreme and simple. In this modality, the audience remains distanced removed  from that sort of emotional identification that can destroy the tone of farse. --- I DO NOT WANT THAT.



Music!!! I've used music in different occasions in my previous works; whether to work along with a joke or to rise different feeling in the audience. I believe music will have a important roll in my work, knowing that I went  to a talk by Gustavo Costantini - Music Strategies in Narrative Filmmaking - at UCA Farnham.

• Rhythm - Film Lost Highway (1997, David Lynch) -Soundtrack I'm Deranged (David Bowie).    The song beat is not that fast, but the subdivision (in the "back)  is. Even though the song is sang in slow pace, the visual rhythm comes from the road marks and the subdivision of the beat.

• Emotional Relation - Music/Image - Music can be neutral to the image: news bulletin, for example, music is absorbed by its function. Informative -  Music gives us clues:  Who the character is; where he is; the inner world of the character.

• Empathetic Effect -Music give us the similar emotional response feeling of the dramatic scene. This is a good example of empathetic effect. It is good to note how the Cristof's character asks the editor to only use a close up angle after the hight notes of the song. 

• Indifferent Effect -  does not means the opposite! It mesa different! Horror film, for example, the  music continues regardless the image (i.e after someone dies). 

• Counter Point: Disconnection between Images/Music; the connection, in this case, is made by style or intellect.  2001 A Space Odyssey (music by Johan Strauss). The relation music/image will work of those who know waltz, as a connection between the round movements of the space station and the dance can be made here.

I still don't know what to do though!