From the course: Learning Cinematography: 1 Narrative Fundamentals
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The visual pattern recognition system
From the course: Learning Cinematography: 1 Narrative Fundamentals
The visual pattern recognition system
- Let's talk about the way the audience sees the images that the cinematographer puts on the screen. This is important because the cinematographer has to speak the same language as the audience in order to communicate with the audience effectively. There are patterns of human experience that we all have in common. These perceptions come out of our daily lives and they're part of what's called our visual pattern recognition system. Visual experiences that we begin accumulating from the time we were born are the basic building blocks of composition. The cinematographer needs to use composition to communicate ideas to the audience. Movies operate on the audiences' most basic perceptions of the world around us. When this baby comes into the world, he has none of these basic rules in his brain. Compare that to this baby horse. Moments after it's born, it can navigate the world on its own! A human baby doesn't know the most basic rules of perception. Up versus down, left versus right, he…
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