Continuity and Dialogue
Continuity is important because it makes the story linear and keeps the audience grounded. Dialogue is important because it helps gives the audience the background information about characters and what's going on in the story. With these two aspects of filmmaking it helps the filmmaker to make the viewer stay engaged and become encaptured in the filmmakers depiction of the world they are trying to create. In the video from Radiohead you can see this happening. It shows how impactful film is because you don't necessarily have to use dialogue in order to get your message across. I think what makes a good filmmaker is a person who is able to take that feeling of ''knowing '' or familiarity and expressing it in there shots. If you look at the Radiohead video, it feels as if things are intentional and not out of place just like some of the other clips. Good films and videos express a organized story. And with dialogue and continuity these are things that help a story flow.
I'm glad that you are appreciating the role of the filmmaker in telling a story through visual language, as opposed to just scripted dialogue. I don't quite see how you are relating this realization to P.T. Anderson's use of continuity editing, however—how is he employing continuity to create this illusion? In addition, please address a more well-rounded collection of resources in these written blog posts to solidify your points of view and takeaways from the screening. The resources that you mentioned were the ones discussed in class, and I wonder how some of the others would have fleshed out your understanding and point of view. Look forward to seeing your progress on the Doppelgänger project next week.
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