Film History

Rating: Null/10 (31 October 2018)

Griffith is the true pioneer of modern storytelling. Despite the message director tried to convey, Film, The Birth of a Nation, is a masterpiece in term of storytelling. Griffith decided to develop plots in separate storyline, then he merged the storyline as they develop. it seems like a common technic now, but it was extraordinary at his time. The advantage of this technic is that it creates a lot of tension for the audience; for example, two different rescues were cut into a montage scene, which undoubtedly raise audiences' nerves. I mean montage scenes that composited by short shots are visually powerful, and the contents were rescues which would drive audiences' curiosity up to the peek. In addition to the storytelling, his cinematography is also fascinating. He uses exposure to focus his target; in which, he would make the surrounding of his target under exposure, then his target would be the one that is focus. This is very different from technics we would use now, but we would use the control of focal length to archive the same goal. it shows his tenant.