Response to Using the camera for interpretation by Harris

   I found this article really informative and easy to understand. Not only because it touches all the basic technique in the article, but it also how to direct the audiences’ attention in a scene. I enjoyed this article because I really love the editing and distortion part of filming. I agree with article that different composition brings different meanings to the scene. For example, in the article when describing the effect of using a low angle, the author used the Batman as an example to illustrate the victorious and strong feeling to the character by using that angle.

   Another thing that interested me is the concept of 4th wall of the movie. It is essential for characters to not recognize the presence of the camera, because once a character intentionally to looks into the camera, directly at the audiences, the reality that generated by the scene dissolved. However, there are some movies intentionally to use this technique to tell the story. One movie pop up in my mind is Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

In this film, there are many instances the characters in the movie talking directly to the camera but the main character is simply a narrator, commentator. Like Jordan Belfort(Leonardo DiCaprio) in Wolf of Wall Street, he tell the audience about what happen in the scene and talking to audience about his life.

Personally, I really like this technique,as it break the boundaries between the audience and the story itself, It acknowledge the present of the audience and promote more interaction between audience and the film itself.