- History
- Establishing Shot
- Methodology - Knowledge of how to do something, "x" (Method)
- Objective
- Contingency
- Subjective
- Fabrication - Making/creating something from imagination or thought
- Perspective
- Pre-conceived - Assumption of something/already been created
Our focus for today's session was abstract; an overview of a phenomenon/thing, a brief summary of content. Introductions are prime examples of abstracts, as they establish and summarize the content of the essay/piece of work and create a mindset for the entire read. The idea behind this was to take this skill into our essay writing - it entices the reader by showing a summary of the content and engrossing them into the subject.
Witnail & I (1987)
The clip of focus was Withnail & I, a black-satire comedy film from the 1980's staring Richard E Grant and Paul McGann. The clip shown was condensed into 6 sections for each of our seminar groups to use. My section was the 20-40 seconds clip - the aim was to summarize what we'd seen in an abstract way, creating a brief, concise sentence.
"Scuffle between characters which is solved by panicked compromise"
My intention was to not work out what the characters were doing specifically, but sum up the intentions of them between the twenty seconds I was given. This is called "clipped writing", which condenses down a sentence with pace, content, meaning the words have purpose and direction. In Casablanca (1942), the film using clipped writing to create intrigue to make the viewer want to watch more. Shown in the clip below, the introduction of passing characters, summarizing the main character as "sentimental, cynical" it offers us a lot of information and description of the character without being that established into the film. Clipped writing offers a far better way of inciting the viewer as it gives them enough plot to keep them intrigued.
Casablanca (1942)
Overall this offers us a way of starting our own essays, by "opening strong" with the first introduction/abstract being a way of bringing in the audience and creating a summary for the entire essay - be brief, concise and meaningful. Below I applied my own abstract with my proposal, which I'm used to doing in a long-winded form, I wanted this to be far more easier to interpret and actually entice the reader more;
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