Framing is an important part of a film. It helps set the scene to what the emotion or value may be. Many directors use it in all of their films, it is pretty much a necessity to any good film. It is used in all sorts of films even documentaries. Through out the years of film the art of framing has progressed and digressed.
Films such as Mad Max: Road Fury and Inside Out are great examples for framing. For Mad Max in the most chaotic scene, the more it gets chaotic the more the framing is steady and focused. A bit weird but taking in to the fact that the good are the anarchists and the bad are the "gov't" the whole chaos is good thing begins to make sense. Inside Out is another great example because the framing technique in it is not about what is outside the shot or how sporadic it is, its about what is in the shot, what is key to everything at that moment.
Framing in films is easy when there is sound, what if there wasn't? A short film that is used as an example of what framing should be: which was from soviet russia (obviously past tense), was given the name "Strike". The theory of studying the film is known as the Kuleshov Effect. The whole purpose of the film is to see what opinion/emotion can be made from these few shots, one of a girl in a coffin, a man staring into the camera, and a woman sitting seductively in front of the camera on a sofa, and a bowl of soup. Now this whole idea of framing is in the process of the editing stage. You would think there isn't much to it but what if you place the footage in a certain order, what then? Thats truly up to whoever is studying the fim and what scenes are being shown.
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