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Date:         Mon, 9 Nov 1992 07:23:43 -0500
From:         Michelle Lehman <MICHELLE@ORTTA.UMN.EDU>
Subject:      wanted: films...

Hi all!

I got this on one of my other lists and thought somebody might be
able to help this person.

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From:         "I am Catwoman, hear me meow" <ILESHKO%ACC.HAVERFORD.EDU@KSUVM.KSU
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Subject:      wanted: films...
To:           Brigitte Welter <BRIGITTE@ORTTA.UMN.EDU>,
              Michelle Lehman <MICHELLE@ORTTA.UMN.EDU>

Hi everyone--
     I'm isabell leshko (though most people call me isa) from Haverford
College in Pa. Even though I'm new to this list, I've a favor to ask.
I'm working on a year long thesis on the effects of background music on
the processing of films. Unfortunately, I'm having a rough time finding
films that would work for my experiments. While this list is devoted to tv,
I'm hoping some of you would be able to help me out.

Ideally, the films I need should be relatively unknown (or at the very least no
longer popular enough such that a subject would have seen it recently).
Along those lines, it would be best to have relatively unknown
actors/actresses. (Television movies are good, too, though I'll have a
harder time getting access to them, especially if they're older.)

I know this is like finding a needle in a haystack, and I appreciate
whatever help you can provide in coming up with films that could work in
the categories below. (Please share this with any major film buffs you know.)

Feel free to answer me in e-mail, if you don't want to cog up the list
discussion to this. My address is ileshko@acc.haverford.edu.And thanks
again for your time.

Here are the categories:

Ambiguity. I'm looking for scenes that have unresolved/ambiguous endings.
Types of scenes that might work are:
--one in which it is unclear what the interpersonal connections are between
characters (do they love/hate each other?)
--one in which the character might have amnesia, and is trying to remember
her/his past (Was s/he was a good or bad character in the past?)
--one in which it's uncertain whether the character dies or makes it
through a nasty situation
--one in which the character has to choose between two things/activities/or
people
--one in which it is uncertain whether the character is male or female
--one in which it is uncertain whether the character is crazy, or if
someone is trying to make her/him think s/he is.

Detail. I'm interested in getting scenes that either have a lot or very
little amount of detail. By detail, I primarly mean physical
objects/features, however I'd also be interested in trying scenes with
either intricate or simple plots for this section of the experiment. (An
example of a detailed scene is one in which characters are moving through a
house with many objects in it. Another one might be one in which the
characters are moving through a city, or new terran.) SF or spy movies
might provide many of these types of scenes.

Pace. I'm interested in getting scenes that have either a quick or slow
pace. Again, I'm primarily thinking of pace as physical movement within the
scene. However, scenes with either several or few plot twists would be
interesting to try as well. Action/spy and SF films would probably work
well for fast moving scenes. The slow moving category will probably be
tougher to find (romances might be a good place to start).

Rhythm. And the toughest category for last... I'm looking for scenes which
contain two different activities that are moving at two different rhythms.
It could also work with two characters in a conversation and one speaks at
a much more rapid pace than the other.

These two activities don't need to occur within the same physical space--
they just need to co-exist temporally within the film. For example,
the camera might pan from one character to another doing two
different types of activities. (One example might be a crowd of people
trying to run from a building, while a character
stays behind and tries to deactivate the bomb.)





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* University of Minnesota         |                  Minneapolis, MN *
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