The Process of Film Communication—Probable Result
- Title
- The Process of Film Communication—Probable Result
- Description
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Sometimes we understand a film. Sometimes we are able to recognize the signals, code them into signs, reorganize them into their component units of story-organism and infer a feeling-concern very similar to that implied by the maker. …Most film communication is not, as pictured in [the ideal figure], the perfect correspondence between the feeling concern, the story-organism, and the image-events they dictate, and their reconstruction by the viewer. Most film situations, depending as they must on the maker and his context (both social and psychological), the viewer and his, and the film itself, are imperfect communicative situations.
Understanding such a complex process is at present extremely difficult, but that is where we must begin. There are several avenues from which we could start. We could examine in detail the relationship between the maker and the product he produces, between the sender-encoder and the signs he generates. Or conversely, we could examine the relationship between a set of signs generated by a known or unknown object and its effect on a receiver or decoder. Third, we could examine the sign system itself, determining methods of description and manipulation. - Designer
- Worth, Sol
- Date
- 1968
- Bibliographic Citation
- Worth, Sol and Larry Gross. 1968 "The Development of a Semiotic of Film." In Studying Visual Communication (1981), by Sol Worth. Edited, with an Introduction, by Larry Gross. University of Pennsylvania Press. Figure 1-3. Pages 46-49.
- Worth, Sol. 1969. "The Development of a Semiotic of Film." Semiotica, 1:282-321.
- use feature
- Brace
- depict things of type
- Sequence or Process
- Alternative Title
- The Process of Communication—Probable Results
- Coverage
- communication
- film
- narrative
- semiotics
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