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The Steadicam as a Creator of Effects and as a Narrator
Following the description of the structure and technical capabilities of the Steadicam, it is interesting to analyse the relationships that are created between this means and the principal forms of narrative dynamics. Basing the analysis on the Steadicam’s capacity to capture, while in motion itself, the motion of characters or objects, it is possible to identify a series of visual and narrative effects that give a movie a new ‘construction’.
The Camera and Points of View
The first element to consider is vision: this is realized by the choice of the point of view, the dynamics of the ‘narrative view’ and the way in which the visual subject is portrayed.
The point of view is literally the ...
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