This is a reference to something I wrote about a long time ago (2009); how factors like sub-text, the "off-screen screenplay", "in late, out early", dramatic irony, character emotion, and so on, are all aspects of the same thing: audience involvement.
I was reading the Bitter Script Reader this morning and he was also talking about this subject.
Then I thought what are we doing, really?
Aren't we encouraging, nay, forcing the audience to be creative? Because we are forcing them to fill in the blanks?
Of course if they are unwilling to do it, or can't see what's supposed to go in the blanks, they aren't going to enjoy it, are they? And everybody is different because they have different ability to fill in the blanks.
Genre? Same thing. Genre is something that has a given set of blanks that the audience is expected to fill in simply by knowing what type of production it is. If a person does not like a genre maybe it's because they don't understand the blanks.
The same thing applies to a crew making a film - do they understand the blanks? If they don't, they will do an adequate job, but if they really get the blanks, they'll know which blanks they should fill in and which they should leave uncoloured-in, for the audience to do it.
What do you think?
What's on the turntable? "A Hazy Shade of Winter" by Simon & Garfunkel
What's on the turntable? "A Hazy Shade of Winter" by Simon & Garfunkel
No comments:
Post a Comment