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(Left) Frames from Filmscript
(Above) Image from To pour milk into a glass
(Right) Frames from Cumulative Script
Idea in abstract
The accumulation of all work and thinking done before this new concept
defines itself.
Makes its own structure.
The concept is the final state of the abstract thought, IDEA (concrete).

Theme
Subject with which I will deal.

Medium
Dependent on idea-treatment.
Film, medium common to my work in the last five years, reconsidered
each time.
Story line structure
Its subject responds to the Idea Structure.
Is part of the total language of the film.
Used as a descriptive part of the idea.
Is the structure of the Film Visual.
Its syntax is relevant to the Idea Structure complex.
It's reduced to the simplest level possible.
Its use is referred to pre-concepts of narrative in commercial
cinema. Exp. Film Script.

Visual treatment
Images as representations of themselves (visual units), acquire a new
meaning in the Film Structure (series of units) ; discourse.
Visual structure
Descriptive images has no significant meaning. They develop a structural
meaning as elements in the vocabulary of the film.
Exp.
Glass----> event (structural meaning)
Man ---> situation (structural meaning)
Milk being poured into a glass
Reduced to its simplest basic visual elements.
the image works as the primarial description of the action.
Two men talking (image, no sound)
no content of the dialogue, no oral situation.
two men in the situation of dialogue
representing the idea of dialogue
no dramatic content
no dramatic representation

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