According to presentation Andrew Bobrow gave us in class, constructive mode of screen design main features are:
- Pure design. - Uses formal visual attributes. - Constructivist sequences found inmany music videos, TV spots and feature films - The primary focus is about “look”, rather than “story” or “content”. - We use the word “constructive” because it echoes a fascination with the elements of design as they were seen and used just before and after World War II by artists and theorists of the Bauhaus school, as well as proponents of the Dadaist and, of course, the Constructivist movements.
The prerelease advertising for the first film tantalized
consumers with the question, “What is the Matrix?” sending them to the Web in
search of answers. Its sequel, The Matrix
Reloaded (2003), opens without a recap and assumes we have almost complete
mastery over its complex mythology and ever-expanding cast of secondary
characters. It ends abruptly with a promise that all will make sense when we
see the third installment, The Matrix
Revolutions (2003). To truly appreciate what we are watching, we have to do
our homework.
…works are attracting 3 very different kinds of consumers:
“the actively engaged real-time viewers who find suspense and satisfaction in
each single episode; the more reflective long-term audience who look for
coherent patterns in the story as a whole; the navigational viewer who takes
pleasure in following the connections between different parts of the story and
in discovering multiple arrangements of the same material” (Jane
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