Employing Cinematic Techniques In The Story - Hasan Mutlaq As A Model
Keywords:
Hasan Mutlaq, Cinematic Techniques, Cinematic Employment, Story, Angle of View, Cinematic Shots, Cinematic EditingAbstract
This research aims to examine the extent of employing cinematic techniques in Hassan Mutlaq's stories, and to reveal the narrator's efforts to develop narrative abilities and the nature of benefiting from visual and pictorial data through openness to the art of cinema.
The study came with an introduction and three chapters. The introduction dealt with the mechanism of the narrative benefiting from cinema technology, and the first chapter was devoted to studying the narrator's location / camera angle in taking the appropriate position in following the narration, which are as follows: horizontal vision, rear vision, high vision, side vision.
The second chapter came to study the shots and their nature, which are:
1. The review shot.
2. The ascending shot.
3. The descending shot.
The third chapter dealt with the montage of shots, as shots vary and differ from each other according to the field of vision and their time period, which are as follows:
1. The close shot.
2. The distant shot.
3. The short shot.
4. The long shot.
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