Method of Working (part 8)

The importance of a director:

-Looking at J.A Bardem and the mechanics of his style.

He used delicate and studios frame composition, the variety of shot sizes in one single scene, dynamic editing that hold together the narrative rhythm, spatial relations, camera movements. He always understood cinema to be a source of entertainment. And entertainment is the means of pulling the spectators out from their own spectacle and direct them into a different world. This was created through the use of decoupage. Although Montage is a form of editing that creates a wholeness out of fragments, that often suggest a discontinuous representation of reality, decoupage on the other hand breaks a spatio-temporal whole, meaning it belongs to both time and space.  Bardem follow the length and formal tone of the composition within a frame, and he uses a number of closer shots, to enhance the story and to reinforce the important elements within one scene; this allows for a great a dynamic that was impactful through editing of a single scene. By the way he followed the rules of continuity through decoupage, it forced the audience to focus where the directors placed the cues, wherever it seemed to be pst relevant. His frames allowed the space for objects or actors to fill the foreground while action also was happening in the background. Bardem’s camera style was used to express his style, and these movements were a way to show to the audience what the director wants to portray to us.

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