Aspects and Elements of Time

Chapter 13 covers a lot of ways in which artists can take advantage of a passage of time, whether in film, photographs, or even less obvious things like paintings. It's interesting how Mary Stewart compiles her research of other people's work and gives her own interpretation and really reduces a lot of helpful information into a well-organized chapter. The four ways in which one shot can relate to the next was very interesting to me. The graphic relationship used symbolism and lassoed similar looks to create a message. The spatial relationship is very interesting in that we can get a sense of the big picture and not soon afterwards, feel the presence of a character and know by emotion how the character relates to the big picture. The temporal relationship applies itself well to film, in that you can create order, or organize confusion of linear time. Rhythmic is least obvious to me, and I picture a strobe effect, or something binary, less flowing.
The Setting and Actor section also helped a lot in giving me ideas for my stop motion animation in trying to change camera angles. The angles can change based on the background or zoom or perspective. I also really liked that the author included comic strip art in this chapter. In my Forms of Narrative class, we are currently studying Dr. Ault's Visual Synchronicities in Vacation Time, a Donald Duck comic, where even the shapes of the panels are distorted from the usual rectangular conformities in order to get a better idea of all four types of relationships. Carl Barks oil painting takes his original comic cover one step further and we see many different types of perspectives all at once. Carl Barks was literally thinking outside the box, and I hope that I can use his ideas to inspire my stop motion.