Cinema is the most restricitve medium
Cinema is the most restricitve medium
The topic of this essay is cinema as the most restrictive medium. I would like to discuss the
restrictions of cinema as such – what these are, how do they affect the medium. For example
time limit of the films, budget, how it affects writer and director, what kind of choices they
have to make, and how the audience come into play. Personally, i don’t consider cinema as a
restrictive medium.
Cinema’s most restrictive feature is time. Filmmakers must fit very good shots edited into
very good storyline into one and a half to three hour movie, usually. The reason being, we get
uncomfortable sitting long period of time. If the movies would be longer, we would lose
interest and start doing something else. We would simply get uncomfortable sitting on a chair
and the whole cinema experience would become agony. Furthermore, producing films can be
expensive, especially longer films. Al...
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