- We all see things in slightly different playtime.
- Each viewer perceives a slightly different film from the person next to them, this experience is contrasted with the homogenous experience of Hollywood film.
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| [Clustered eye tracks reveal a focused audience in North by Northwest whereas the audience visually roams the image in Mr. Hulot’s Holiday.] |
- Research shows that Human perception can often miss key people or objects even thought they are in plain sight.
1. The Invisible Sight
- Small things like, putting the main characters in the centre of a shot, having cuts that match on action, making eye contact run through different shots and camera panning on certain characters.
- Small things like above help a new viewer understand who's the main characters and most of the plot.
- "Things on the screen appeared real, unsponsored and inevitable while the thousands of choices that created the film disappeared" - Robert Ray, A Certain Tendency of Hollywood Cinema
- These small things direct our attention to only certain things, an audience can accidently ignore or be blind a lot of important aspects of a scene,
- There was a famous phycological experiment where they filmed a clip of two groups bouncing a ball, one in black shirts one in white. They told people to count how many times the black team bounced their ball, because of this they didn't realise and were blind to the fact that a gorilla walked into the middle of the screen.
- See, Blind and Misperceive
- See - Some people see what's happening
- Blind - People may be blind to something and have no clue that something is happening
- Misperceives - Someone who may have not seen something as it happens but notices later and misperceives it
Excellent work Priya!
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