Friday, December 13, 2013
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Sound Image/Image Image Relationship
Ferris Bueller Museum Scene
This iconic scene depicts Ferris, Sloan, and Cameron exploring the paintings and sculptures in the museum. This is done through montage as short clips of paintings and sculptures are presented and juxtaposed with their faces in relation to the works of art. They show a sculpture with a quick cut to them all imitating the sculpture, then they cut to them all staring at three different paintings. Through the beginning of the montage a friendship and connection in experiencing the art together is depicted, followed by them staring at separate paintings illustrating a separation, which is then followed by the beginning of Cameron staring into the painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte alone juxtaposed by a clip of Ferris and Sloan together. We then see an over the shoulder view of Cameron's view into the painting followed by a back and forth of clips--Cameron to the little girl in the painting, getting closer and closer each time until the little girls face is unrecognizable. John Hughes states that the closer you look into the painting the less is able to be seen, nothing's there, which is how Cameron feels. This meaning is presented accurately as Cameron's feeling of loneliness is contrasted to Ferris and Sloan's relationship. The sound in the scene is The Dream Academy's cover of The Smiths Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want. It's only instrumental in this scene and it evokes a sense of emotion and is a used to portray their journey as close friends experiencing the museum and day away from school together to Cameron's distancing himself to ponder into his own being through gazing into a painting. The clips depict the journey in order as they happen, they show what they are looking at, their responses to what they're looking at, and the score music evokes an additional sense of emotion. The smooth rhythm of the cuts are seamless in the sense that they make sense with the story and with the song as a montage of time lapsing the event.
This iconic scene depicts Ferris, Sloan, and Cameron exploring the paintings and sculptures in the museum. This is done through montage as short clips of paintings and sculptures are presented and juxtaposed with their faces in relation to the works of art. They show a sculpture with a quick cut to them all imitating the sculpture, then they cut to them all staring at three different paintings. Through the beginning of the montage a friendship and connection in experiencing the art together is depicted, followed by them staring at separate paintings illustrating a separation, which is then followed by the beginning of Cameron staring into the painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte alone juxtaposed by a clip of Ferris and Sloan together. We then see an over the shoulder view of Cameron's view into the painting followed by a back and forth of clips--Cameron to the little girl in the painting, getting closer and closer each time until the little girls face is unrecognizable. John Hughes states that the closer you look into the painting the less is able to be seen, nothing's there, which is how Cameron feels. This meaning is presented accurately as Cameron's feeling of loneliness is contrasted to Ferris and Sloan's relationship. The sound in the scene is The Dream Academy's cover of The Smiths Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want. It's only instrumental in this scene and it evokes a sense of emotion and is a used to portray their journey as close friends experiencing the museum and day away from school together to Cameron's distancing himself to ponder into his own being through gazing into a painting. The clips depict the journey in order as they happen, they show what they are looking at, their responses to what they're looking at, and the score music evokes an additional sense of emotion. The smooth rhythm of the cuts are seamless in the sense that they make sense with the story and with the song as a montage of time lapsing the event.
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