Well, Marijke, I'd argue about film being more simplistic than literature. Recently, when I've tried writing myself, I find myself thinking much more as tho I was filming the scene, rather than describing it in words. It's alot easier for me to take on a facial expression that completely changes the words I say than describe it. Also, the idea of creating a mood purely through the use of camera and/or music is something I'm very interested in. It's a different medium, certainly; which is interesting, considering that it's basically trying to do the same thing as literature, telling stories, broadly speaking. But it certainly has its own, unique method of doing that, one that is worthy of admiration by any lover of beauty!
I haven't read November's post yet. Perhaps you've already discovered this for yourself!
It would seem that the one unique gift of literature is the ability to go inside the character’s mind, which you can’t do in film except via voice-over. Due to its multimedia nature, I found analysing film much more complicated than analysing literature. But perhaps ‘less is more’ and the gaps in the text, which are filled in in film, do create more possibilities for the reader.
Well, Marijke, I'd argue about film being more simplistic than literature. Recently, when I've tried writing myself, I find myself thinking much more as tho I was filming the scene, rather than describing it in words. It's alot easier for me to take on a facial expression that completely changes the words I say than describe it. Also, the idea of creating a mood purely through the use of camera and/or music is something I'm very interested in. It's a different medium, certainly; which is interesting, considering that it's basically trying to do the same thing as literature, telling stories, broadly speaking. But it certainly has its own, unique method of doing that, one that is worthy of admiration by any lover of beauty!
I haven't read November's post yet. Perhaps you've already discovered this for yourself!
It would seem that the one unique gift of literature is the ability to go inside the character’s mind, which you can’t do in film except via voice-over. Due to its multimedia nature, I found analysing film much more complicated than analysing literature. But perhaps ‘less is more’ and the gaps in the text, which are filled in in film, do create more possibilities for the reader.