FRAME AND MOVEMENT STUDY (Referring to Gilles Deleuze)

 


This clip shows the camera as a human eye wondering through the area much like a POV
structure. Through this video we shall discuss movement and frame, how the frame divide
into subsets or parts and how it contributes or connects to the whole referring to Deleuze. In the clip we can see the camera showing the decors and the area where an event or festival is taking place.

The scene opens up with the view of the grounds then pans up showing the decoration
structures. Here I tried to showcase the beautifully dividing of the space into perfectly
saturated subsets. According to the thesis of Deleuze, space can be full of saturation, means full of information or it can be rarefaction, means the opposite. To understand this properly we can take both examples from the video. Most of the time like the opening scene where space or frame for that matter can be divided into subsets for instance, (00:15) here can be seen floors, characters in the foreground and midground, buildings in the midground and a block of sky and trees. Likewise in (00:34) there can't be seen much the information here is
limited, only thing that is on the screen is the floor and shadows. This creates a clean
contrast, between saturation and rarefaction. If we were to divide frame in geometrical
system then we can distinguish the clear form of parallels and diagonals, and it includes
abstract form like lighting too as it is an information in the film. In the last sequence
(03:49) where camera seems to follow a certain character, there can be seen clearly the
horizontals, on the floors and the decors, and the verticals, created by trees are buildings.
Same can be shown through the scene where we see information through the reflection
of the structures in the water.

As he describes in the book, in framing system, there are mostly two types of framing- closed framing, where everything you need to know is there within the frame, self contained and on the other hand- the open framing system refers to quite the opposite. The film here mostly uses open frame, the viewer stays completely aware of the fact that there is a world or let's say lots of information going on off the screen. For instance the characters movement along
with the camera or going past the camera(00:43).

We can see three types of movement in the film, the movement of the camera, characters
and the scene. Because of these movements the sets and subsets generates difference
within frame and modifies the parts discovering the space. The movements of the
character with the camera movement and also the scene movement contributes to the whole my dividing and reuniting, modifying the sets and the duration.

-Shantashree Dutta

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