200 Moving Images: Making Movies, Understanding MediaWriting: Portraits and Landscapes
When examining non-narrative motion picture forms, there are some links that
can be made with traditions of portraiture and landscapes in painting, in which
narrative elements—the depiction of an action that also suggests preceding and
following events—are not present or reduced to a minimum. In this writing,
we will begin to develop material for considering purely descriptive elements
in the visual arts.
Characterization and Setting – In this piece of writing, you will select a
subject to describe in detail without recounting any actions or events. Th e
piece of writing should contain multiple paragraphs for ample development
of the portrait. Go beyond the bare details to illustrate a thorough, insightful
portrait of the person or place.- Person – Write a description of yourself or someone you know.
Concentrate on physical description, including manners of gesture
and movement. Describe the person in a setting or settings, but
without reference to a series of narrated events. You may reference
both image and sound in your description. - Place – Write a description of a place with which you are quite
familiar. Include wide perspectives and details that are seen from
close up as well as sounds that accompany the place.
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