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Authenticity In Film Essay

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There are three main strategies in film making a film to begin with. It involves editing. This is the way the material is presented. In this strategy, there is cutting out boring or uninteresting scenes. Also here, the film maker decides how to present the scenes. Finally this strategy involves pacing (either speeding up the film or slowing down interview). This helps to set up the tone. Secondly, Authority. This involves people specializing in that area of interest. For example, interviewing a physics professor about questions relating to universe or even asking a film maker about photography. And lastly, it’s about pattern making. In this strategy, the filmmaker focuses on the camera repeatedly. For instance, pointing …show more content…

Hemingway described the authenticity found in novels as follows: "All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you." This experience is one that readers still desire, even in the Information Age. However, to meet the particular expectations of readers in our time, the modes of constructing verisimilitude in fiction may be undergoing some changes.
It's no surprise, then, that documentary fiction is particularly appealing to readers in the Information Age. Arguably, today's readers are more adept at accessing, synthesizing, and utilizing information than perhaps at any other point in history. Furthermore, if we accept that today's society is one of vastly multiplying options when it comes to everything from information to entertainment to consumer products and that many of these options allow for customization and it's easy to see why interactivity in fiction appeals to readers—it's about …show more content…

As more filmmakers experimented with this method, they discovered new ways to create a propaganda that would bring about social/or political meaning. While some filmmakers composed montages in such a way that a comprehensive story came together, others, such as Sergei Eisenstein, formed montages of jarring images to evoke emotional responses.
Montage particularly is like the Triumph of the will, the example is social/communal meaning, for instance if it’s about German and Hitler. It uses two different position of camera shooting the same person Hitler, to make a fake scene of people celebrating with Hitler. The warriors in B roll shots are real WW2 warriors but the portrait of reality in the video never happened. It is just an idealized scene made through careful structure and consideration. According to Eisenstein, elements are not perceived as appearing next to each other, but rather, appear on top of one another. Since he thinks of shots in this way, he uses spatial and temporal dislocation within his films, thus jarring his viewers. This method contrasts with standard Hollywood practices, which employ montage as a way of creating understanding. It also talks about some abstractions such as paperboy and fireman are good abstraction, but political issues such as political campaign are abstraction of fear and danger. Author reframed shots of America in montage to verify the same. Moreover,

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