A sensibility that knowledge-value society and dream society are based and storytelling by story-tellers are contents industry. The most important issue between them are 'storytelling' and 'image technology'. The core issue of two contents is an origi...
A sensibility that knowledge-value society and dream society are based and storytelling by story-tellers are contents industry. The most important issue between them are 'storytelling' and 'image technology'. The core issue of two contents is an original technology of image and dynamic and realistic image. It is important for being a key factor of view rate in HD era. The matter of dynamic and realistic image is generally due to presence. So in this study, we are going to clear up the fact that how 'presence' are induced from which image construction.
Precisely, to find out how 'presence' appears in which image construction, and to see the differences occur in both drama film and documentary film, we have chosen representatives of drama film and documentary; <Soon-Ji> of drama film which can be said a representative work of fiction genre and <Incomplete Muwijeongsa> of HD documentary film which is also one representative piece of non-fiction genre. We have analyzed image construction of each film and typified them. 212 people participated to our experiment and watched each film for measuring the presence of them. For the last, we did audience analysis and examined the relation between image construction and presence.
The features of image construction resulted are as follows.
For the feature of genre, there are larger numbers of scenes and cuts consisted in documentary film than drama film. Relatively greater number of camera shots in objective perspective and proper camera working of the X, the Y, and the Z axis are concomitant, and extreme long shot, long shot, medium shot, close-up shot and others are also relatively used in similar amount. In addition to majority of eye-level super angle, high angles and low angles are consisting screen of image with even range. This can be translated as an intention of writer wants to transmit objective facts which are a feature of documentary film. So, it is a matter of hyper-reality (so-called simulation), a trial to deliver all the situations. Therefore, it’s a will to deliver 'reality' in practical way.
In contrary, drama film was consisted with less scenes and cuts than documentary for the reason of genre feature. It also ranges similarly with camera angle in writer's perspective and objective perspective, so it consists fixed camera working and close-up shots, medium shots, and over-the-shoulder shot are mostly used. Extreme long shots or other master shots for foreground view are relatively less used than other shots.
This can be referred as a trial of production for maximizing hyper-reality that draws reality in drama by much realistic way which is a key feature of drama film.
Moreover, research results of presence features that audiences perceive from image construction of drama film and documentary film are as follows.
In documentary, physical presence which contains transportable presence, real presence, and immersive presence showed up strongly. It is possible to get high presence when it guarantees elaborate and detailed observation of various subjects by complex camera working. Audiences can feel immersion and realism like they are looking a subject through a microscope themselves and become an observer in the film when there presents much stronger over-realization. To catch maximized subjects everything is expressed, it is necessary to use various shots from big close-up to extreme long shot into various angles in more objective views and writer's viewpoint by the storytelling of deductive constitution which is easy to observe and possible to hyper-realize and complex camera working.
To contrast, presence in drama film result how well it constructs hyper-reality close enough with real world and draw it into media viewer. It's due to the appealing point of social presence, genre feature of drama film. Hyper-reality like floating real world are needed, so the construction of image which is hard to notice the edition is vital. Proper construction of image is possible constitute in writer's viewpoint into objective viewpoint that makes audiences to participate through follow and fix shot by deductive storytelling with properly combined camera working. And when it possesses long term scene construction as much as becoming storytelling and length of shot as well as enough breathe, audiences are susceptibly feel presence immense into drama becoming into friend or foe assimilate with the main characters and actors. Also, for development of media viewer from now on, inflow of stereo image and hyper-real surround sound will develop another style of production.