CONVENTIONS are an accepted dramatic element or stylistic approach or type of subject matter that is commonly associated with a kind of motion picture or with motion pictures in general. Films of a particular genre are characterized by the use of accepted conventions and mythic elements which are repeated from film to film.
The liberal use of music to underscore the actions of screen melodramas is a long-standing convention. on the other hand, such convention use of music is considered inappropriate for realist cinema expression, which traditionally has avoided the use of both narration and supplied music.
Editing and camera techniques employed in the construction of a motion picture and accepted by audiences as indigenous to the medium's method of expression are also regarded as film conventions, e.g., shot sequence editing, optical transitions, camera movement, parallel development, flashbacks, etc.
Also the use of slow motion to depict a violent death- a common convention in gangster and law-and-order films during the 1960s and early 70s.
DEEP FOCUS
Deep-focus photography- A term for motion-picture composition with great depth of a field. In deep-focus photography the immediate foreground and the deepest part of the background remain in critical focus. This range of critical focus permits the filmmaker to work with several areas of visual information within the same shot. Deep-focus composition is often accompanied by long-take photography where there is little or no cutting in a scene. The director includes all essential action and important character relationships in the deep-focus frame.
Deep-focus, long-take direction such as that devised by Gregg Toland for Orson Welles' Citizen Kane (1941) was in part inspiration od Andre Bazin's theories of Mise-en-scene analysis.
OUR CONCENTRATION ON LIGHTING IN SHOTS:
ACTION:
ROMANCE:
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