The week 5 reading with passages from various directors was a very interesting reading. I liked the way Scorsese explained that he enjoys the restrictions of the frame as a creative prompt, and how to make use of that restricted frame with what you show. He describes that it’s what’s in the frame that informs a viewer, and it seems he thinks about the camera placement in terms of the space that the frame captures and depicts, which can then be filled with objects and characters, as well as movement.

Makavejev’s description of the frame was even better, saying that, “There’s an incredible erotic tension in the edges of the frame.”; that what’s suggested is outside of the frame can be as dramatic as what’s inside the frame. “castrating action” seems funnily apt, and it makes sense because if the filmmaker continues to tease something off the edge of the frame, it’s a response for the viewer to ask what that thing might be.

I just thought it was really interesting to consider the frame a part of the mise-en-scene; as a physical entity that physically interacts and constrains the physical space in front of it.