In the Blink of an Eye

Chapter 7- Most with the least

• You can never judge the quality of a sound mix simply by counting the number of tracks it took to produce it.
• Always try to do the most with the least! - attempt to produce the greatest effect in the viewer's mind by the least number of things on screen.
• You only want what is necessary to engage the imagination of the audience- suggestion is always more effective than exposition.
• The more effort you put into wealth of detail the more you encourage the audience to become spectators rather than participants.
• Film is cut for practical reasons and film is cut because cutting that sudden disruption of reality can be an effective took in itself.

Chapter 8- The Rule of Six

• Film is all about how the audience feel/
• EMOTION- it is true to the emotion of the moment
• STORY- it advances the story
• RHYTHM- it occurs at a moment that is rhythmically interesting and right.
• EYE-TRACE- it acknowledges what you might call eye-trace- the concern with the location and movement of the audience's focus of interest within the frame.
• TWO-DIMENSIONAL PLANE OF SCREEN- it respects planarity- the grammar of 3 dimensions transposed by photography of two.
• THREE-DIMENSIONAL PLANE OF ACTION- it respects the 3-dimensional continuity of the actual space.
• Never accept less when more is available to you.