Our short answer question for this week is on GRAND ILLUSION. Both the Bordwell textbook and the Cook reading assigned for later this week talk about and show examples of Renoirs use of the moving camera and composition in depth, where there is activity going on in various parts of the frame without cutting back and forth, which we saw a lot of in the class where we covered editing.
Cook notes that the director Jean Renoir was also the pioneer of composition in depth in the sound film, and according to the film theorist Andre Bazin, he became the father of a new aesthetic.
Bazin writes about the director Renoir that He alone…forced himself to look back beyond the resources provided by montage and so uncovered the secret of film form that would permit everything to be said without chopping up the world into little fragments, that would reveal the hidden meanings in people and things without disturbing the unity natural to them.
After watching the film, please write a one-page short answer (no more!) of at least 150 words noting any examples in the film you saw of composition in depth and various things happening in the scene and/or use of the moving camera, giving meaning or making points without resorting to editing. Please also let me know what you thought of the film,
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