...handheld camerawork: what has? happened to our once world renowned quality documentary film making?
has it got so bad that you have found yourself either switching off entirely, or sometime simply having to look away and listen to the commentary, as your awareness is incessantly and mercilessly bludgeoned by the excessively frenetic visual assault?
up until the last couple of years, i can never remember switching off a documentary that i was genuinely fascinated by.
but in recent times i have turned off frequently, because in many documentaries, i find there is no space or time to simply let my eyes roam or come to rest on what i choose to focus on, but my gaze is constantly and continuously being yanked and jolted and this is annoying and distracting to such an extent, that there is no time to take in an digest the information being conveyed.
i feel exactly like the character in 'a clockwork orange' whose eyes are pinned open, and who is being fed superfast imagery to re-programme him.
i think it must be time to throw the TV in the skip, and break way from all this manic, hyped up, ADHD style tv, that the passive and the braindead seem happy to consume.
has it got so bad that you have found yourself either switching off entirely, or sometime simply having to look away and listen to the commentary, as your awareness is incessantly and mercilessly bludgeoned by the excessively frenetic visual assault?
up until the last couple of years, i can never remember switching off a documentary that i was genuinely fascinated by.
but in recent times i have turned off frequently, because in many documentaries, i find there is no space or time to simply let my eyes roam or come to rest on what i choose to focus on, but my gaze is constantly and continuously being yanked and jolted and this is annoying and distracting to such an extent, that there is no time to take in an digest the information being conveyed.
i feel exactly like the character in 'a clockwork orange' whose eyes are pinned open, and who is being fed superfast imagery to re-programme him.
i think it must be time to throw the TV in the skip, and break way from all this manic, hyped up, ADHD style tv, that the passive and the braindead seem happy to consume.