Blog Response- Article- Intensified Continuity

Many concepts were used in film "Flashbacks and Ellipses continue to be momentarly teasing and retrospectively coherent. Credit sequences, openings, and montage sequence can display flashy, self-conscious technique.In particular, the way in which today's' films represent space overwhelming adhere to the premises of 'classical continuity'" This implies that continuity was something new and strongly introduced in "Taxi Driver". Although this technique brought new pros to the film industry in exchange the Directors abuse the of it now. "It's a shame that all films rely so much on close-ups almost all the time, filling the screen with an actor's head like you might for television, when there is so much you can show".There are always good and bad things about new thing and in this case intensified continuity was an interesting concept to experiment with, but it also had it's negative side. By having so many close ups, the audience feels force to be looking at such character and is unable to get an image of what's around. In addition, a CU doesn't give the audience to choose where to look at; if it was a LS and more than one character at the scene, then the audience could decide who to focus on, but because it's a CU there only one option.

With all these changes in the Hollywood films, there is always evolution to styles "Contrary to claims that Hollywood style has become post classical, we are still dealing with a variant of classical film making... Intensified continuity constitutes of a selection and elaboration of options already on the classical filmmaking menu". The writer of the article claims that the new style still have some elements of old styles and emphasizes Hollywood films have to be based of them because they're so important to the industry.

Despite of the "loses" the author claims the film industry has suffered, there are new elements that create new styles adds variety to the world of film. However, this new styles have the fundamental element of intensified continuity regardless of how much they use.