This slide explains about the importance of Time in Media

1. Four Dimensional Field-The
Significance of Time
Prepared by
Ms Rijitha. R (M.A, M.Phil., SET)
Assistant Professor
Department of Electronic Media

2. Time
• Artists may be concerned only with the aspect of time that best suits
them in their quest to clarify and intensify experience within a specific
medium, such as video or film. And this is exactly what we will do:
select and discuss those aspects of time and motion that seem most
relevant to our media—specifically video and film—and that help us
best in understanding and structuring the four- dimensional field.

3. Types of Time
• The time we measure by the clock is called, appropriately enough,
clock time or objective time.
• The time we experience is called psychological time or subjective
time. A time also exists that regulates our body functions and
determines when we feel alert and when we feel tired.
• This third type is called biological time.
• In structuring the four-dimensional field for video and film, we are
primarily interested in the first two types: objective and subjective
time.

4. Fourth tool of narrative cinema
• Time and motion are commonly known as the fourth dimension of cinema. Since a key factor regarding film
is moving images, the director's ability to control of objective and subjective time forms an aesthetic
expression of the pace, tempo, and rate of individual performances (Zettl 288).
• Objective time is "the time we measure by the clock" (Zettl 383) which presents an "objective, quantitative
measure of observable change" (Zettl 383).
• Subjective time is "the duration we feel" (Zettl 385). It is "also called psychological time" (Zettl 385). The use
of slow motion, fast motion, event motion (i.e., whatever moves in front of the camera), camera motion (to
include camera pan, tilt, pedestal, dolly, zoom etc.), and editing motion (i.e., where movement is brought
about by using shot changes from one film source to another) contributes to the film's aesthetic quality.

5. Time in Edited Video and Film
• Through editing you can change the time order of past, present, and
future at will and construct your own time arrow.
• For example, a flashforward will interrupt the normal cause/effect
development of a story and provide viewers with a brief glimpse of a
future event.
• The instant replays have triggered a new use of the traditional
flashback, which shows brief scenes of past events anytime in the
story.
• A simple conversation between two friends or an interrogation of a
suspect might trigger an instant recall, which is then illustrated by
brief, dazzling video and audio effects.

6. Examples
• Momento
• Curious Life of Benjamin Button
• Terminator
• TENET
• Indru Netru Naalai
• Kaka Kaka

7. Example- Time

8. Example- Time
The last scene of movie the Inception, directed by Christopher Nolan.

9. Example- Time (Freeze frame)

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