tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30886366.post115499542665108886..comments2024-01-02T15:27:47.049-05:00Comments on I'M IN A JESS FRANCO STATE OF MIND: RATIO MATTERSRobert Monellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06309327472702575547noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30886366.post-1155069001243550772006-08-08T16:30:00.000-04:002006-08-08T16:30:00.000-04:00Thanks for your input, Tim. It IS a strikingly fra...Thanks for your input, Tim. It IS a strikingly framed opening shot in terms of the angle and opening out a probably small interior set. I would guess that your second option would be the reason. I have to revisit my old Spanish video to see if this figure is fully in frame, but that's framed at even less than 1.66:1.Robert Monellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06309327472702575547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30886366.post-1155017532351122062006-08-08T02:12:00.000-04:002006-08-08T02:12:00.000-04:00Robert writes: "Note that the guest at the fashion...Robert writes: "Note that the guest at the fashion show on the far right is partially cut off by the framing, indicating that there is some side image missing, as no professional DP would frame a shot bisecting a figure with the edge of the frame. That entire set-up looks slightly unbalanced to me."<BR/><BR/>I must take issue with you here, Bob. This framing is valid and that bisected onlooker can be explained a couple of different ways: 1) the DP was physically unable to recede further from the action with his camera, which caused the crowding; or 2) because the DP bisected the person at the edge of frame deliberately to trick the viewer into imagining that the crowd extended beyond the frame. To keep this fellow entirely in frame would be to limit the number of people in attendance, but cropping him teases the eye into imagining more. This is the sort of trompe l'oeuil that one sometimes finds in Bava's photography. So I have to argue your point; in fact, I find this frame almost uncommonly well composed for a Franco picture, even one from this period. It looks like it could have come from HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON.Tim Lucashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01745651801885417165noreply@blogger.com