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Understanding style

Understanding style

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Understanding style

We've spent a lot of time talking about the tools that we have to shape an audience's response to our stories. But what we haven't discussed very much are issues of style. In one of my classes, students get footage from various scenes every week. Every student gets the exact same footage. And then they come up with a scene analysis and lean forward moments, just like you've done here. Then they go and cut the scene. The remarkable thing, and this is the true learning experience, is that every cut feels different. Every editor has examined the same footage. They may have even come up with the same analysis. But they've edited differently. This is the idea of style, something that is different for every person. And that's going to make every film different. Let's look at an example. Mitsuyo Miyazaki's short film, Tsuyako, is set in post World War II Japan. And revolves around a traditional, hardworking, married woman, Tsuyako, who is caught between staying in her hometown raising her…

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