“By supplying an overabundance of information, photography confuses and problematizes its message; it creates what author Roland Barthes calls a “reality effect”, a semblance of realism bound to detail”
— Black Bodies, White Science: Louis Agassiz’s Slave Daguerreotypes
Author(s): Brian Wallis (p.48)
“If you don’t do stupid things while you’re young, you’ll have nothing to smile about when you’re old.” —
(Source: halifornia)
4x5 film. (Taken with Instagram)
“But the very literalness of photographs produces an uncontrollable manipulation of meanings in even the most banal images”
— Black Bodies, White Science: Louis Agassiz’s Slave Daguerreotypes
Author(s): Brian Wallis (p.48)
Film locks you into it’s own characteristics, which has it’s own pleasures.”
“In nineteenth-century parlance, two technical words gained a certain currency to describe how “reality” was construed: the word daguerreotype was distinguished from the word stereotype.
Stereotypes were originally molds for creating multiple copies of printing type;
the word, therefore, came to connote generalized replication.
The daguerreo- type, on the other hand, was characterized by miniaturization, infinitesimal preci-
sion, and detail.”
— Black Bodies, White Science: Louis Agassiz’s Slave Daguerreotypes
Author(s): Brian Wallis
Dear Readers,
Something that might interest you: How to Write a Movie in 21 Days. It seems to cover the basics for one popular approach to teaching screenwriting, and lays it out nicely. Save the Cat! seems to be popular, although I have not yet had the chance to read more than a sample of it so far. It looks like a good helpful read to me though :)
For an online source that describes and gives lots of examples, check this one out!
I hope these may prove to be useful resources!
HD