Response to Aesthetics of video

How to direct the audiences’ attention in a scene? Breaking down to separate shots, the framing and camera angle, lenses, placement of camera and camera movement. In the article, the author introduced most of the basic knowledge of film language such as the forth walls, visual variety and camera placement. 

Personally I think, no matter it is a long shot or a montage scene, they all has to follow the reasonable attention transform of the viewers with the plot or situation in the scene.  In the article, the author held a point of view that the producer or the director of a film would decide what audience’s interest should be. In my opinion, producers of a film try their best to illustrate a story or to reproduce a story.  A horror film is just illustrating a horror story. The readers give a way to the horror feelings.  Another example would be a successful America comedy can not make all Chinese people laugh, because the chinese audience can not understand those American jokes. Is the comedy still comedy at this point? 

Directors arrange his camera, using movements, angles and so on to present what is inside the forth walls in the best way. It might no be the most objective way, since there is no a totally object film or video because all kinds of video products involve certain level of producer’s opinion (choosing of camera angle, placement, etc), but it is the best way to understand and look at the film. 

there are some incrediable filming techniques that I admire a lot. For example, the deep focus scenes from Citizen Kane (1941) were granted high value internationally.  There were a lot of details going on at the same time in the frame, and made a lot of meanings in just one scene. this is a great example of how framing of a film could interpret viewer's knowledge of the story. However, after all, I think the producers are just telling a story.