Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Visual Literacy ?




“Notes from Underground”
Considered by many as the first
Existentialist novel
About
The rambling memoirs of a
Bitter, isolated narrator.

Just as Dostoevsky,
Scorsese introduced us
To Travis Bickle
On Taxi Driver
And his obsessive
Traumas.

Born in New York (1942)
He was always sick with asthma
Spending his time reading or in church
Or movie theatres

To understand Scorsese´s
films

You must see “ Paisa´ ” (1946)
A masterpiece by Roberto Rosellini
And…

“Ashes and Diamonds” (1958)
By polish master director
Andrzej Wajda
A post war epic told in just one day
Based on a 19th century poem

In 1948-49
TV appeared
And a vocabulary was born. 

Howard Hughes,
Jesus of Nazareth
or Hugo Cabret

All his characters are emotionally
Connected to the audience

A master of driving story lines
To the edge

Emphasizing on
Music and editing
To shape images
For the viewer to interpret

Wide shots
from the knees up
Without words or
Imitating Alfred Hitchcock
With Blonde
Leading ladies

He uses Hallways as trademarks
Using slow motion to extend
The Complexity of a scene
Or a freeze frame for Abstraction

Guilt, hysteria, Anger & obsession
As emotional experiences
By using his unique
Structural vision

“I’m interested to see the visual interpretation
And the emotional impact”
-Martin Scorsese

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