![]() ![]() But if the hive is moved two yards, the bees will become fatally confused. Surprisingly, if it is moved two miles, the bees also have no problem: They are forced by the total displacement of their environment to re-orient their sense of direction, which they can do easily enough. (.)Ī beehive can apparently be moved two inches each night without disorienting the bees the next morning. The new shot in this case is different enough to signal that something has changed, but not different enough to make us re-evaluate its context: The displacement of the image is neither motion nor change of context, and the collision of these two ideas produces a mental jarring-a jump that is comparatively disturbing. “What we do seem to have difficulty accepting are the kind of displacements that are neither subtle nor total: Cutting from a full-figure master shot, for instance, to a slightly tighter shot that frames the actors from the ankles up. I might say, “I want to see that close-up of Teresa, number 317, in roll 45.” But I’ll put that roll on the machine, and as I spool down to number 317 (which may be hundreds of feet from the start), the machine shows me everything at high speed down to that point, saying in effect: “How about this instead? Or this?” And I find, more often than not, long before I get down to shot 317, that I’ve had three other ideas triggered by the material that I have seen flashing by me.” The system is constantly presenting things for consideration, and a sort of dialogue takes place. Whereas the advantage of the KEM’s linear system is that I do not always have to be speaking to it-there are times when it speaks to me. If you have to articulate everything, as you do with a ran-dom-access system like video/computer or Moviola/ assistant, you are limited by what and how much you can articulate and how good your original notes were. A human being’s ability to understand a foreign language is always greater than his ability to speak it.Īnd when you make a film, you are trying to learn a foreign language-it just happens to be a unique language that is only spoken by this one film. What do I mean by that? Well, if you learn to speak a foreign language, you will find that there is a gap between how well you can speak it and how well you can understand it when it is spoken to you. ![]() There is a higher level that comes through recognition: You may not be able to articulate what you want, but you can recognize it when you see it. That’s a drawback for me because your choices can then only be as good as your requests, and sometimes that is not enough. The Avid is faster at it than the Moviola, but the process is the same. “You ask for something specific and that thing-that thing alone-is delivered to you as quickly as possible. ![]()
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