Analysis Of Michael Slovis Behind The Lens

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“We represent reality, we don't reproduce it.” Says Michael Slovis in Behind the Lens: Michael Slovis, ASC & Breaking Bad. “One trademark in the show that's terrific and that Vince and I talk about and exploit is that we often don't see the faces of the main characters. Vince says that everyone knows who these people are so we really don't need to see their faces.” Again Michael Slovis in Behind the Lens: Michael Slovis, ASC & Breaking Bad. https://library.creativecow.net/kaufman_debra/Behind-the-Lens-Michael-Slovis/1 I also often think for important aspect of the storytelling consists of getting each audience member to subconsciously (or consciously) ask himself or herself a series of questions. If viewers are confused and asking themselves structural or procedural questions (“Why is this happening? Why doesn’t this person flow smoothly into what I already know? Why are the characters doing things that seem out of character or stupid?”), they’re constantly being taken out of the narrative and can’t fully absorb what the storytellers are trying to do. I find that when I’m asking …show more content…

But when do we cross the important lines? Is it when we break the law? Or when is it when we violate the codes that have been implanted in us by our cultures, our communities and ourselves? How do we explain it when we do something really wrong? Because we’ve all done bad things and found ways to tell ourselves those actions weren’t thаt bad. Walter White( the main character in “Breaking Bad”) was just a guy like us, trying to get by and not break too many of the big rules. But then, he started breaking rules, and he became addicted to those feelings of overstepping and superiority — as addicted as the poor junkies who buy his super-pure meth. More than ever, he thinks he’s in control, but it’s his addiction to being better than everyone else that has always been in the driver’s

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