Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Steven Soderbergh's Black-and-White Version of "Raiders of the Lost Ark"

As I mentioned in class, Soderbergh has stripped the colour and dialogue from Raiders, effectively eliminating the linguistic element. Watch here and think about how meaning is created through the multimodal elements that are there.

In the short preface to the film, Soderbergh urges the viewer to think about the choices that have been made by the filmmakers (much as we've seen McCloud write about in Making Comics with comics creators). Here's what he says:

"So I want you to watch this movie and think only about staging, how the shots are built and laid out, what the rules of movement are, what the cutting patterns are.  See if you can reproduce the thought process that resulted in these choices by asking yourself: why was each shot—whether short or long—held for that exact length of time and placed in that order?"

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