bookend technique

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00:55 Jun 8, 2020
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Art/Literary - Cinema, Film, TV, Drama
Additional field(s): Media / Multimedia
English term or phrase: bookend technique
Definition from Reel Club:
In popular cinema, the bookend technique is most often used to refer to a parallel between the opening and closing sequences or shots in a film. The first scene is re-visioned, with only minor changes, in the film’s final scene leaving the audience with a feeling of completion; what was started is now finished.

Example sentence(s):
  • Video essayist Jacob T. Swinney captured our attention in a big way with a simple video that juxtaposed the first frames of a film with the last. He's back with the third installment of his popular "First and Final Frames" series, complete with some of the best films of the year, to give us the chance to explore, once again, the way films are bookended and what can be learned from it. No Film School
  • But Soderbergh knows how to make a sleek thriller, and such keen professionalism would be missed, from the film’s bookends and fine cynicism as chilly as the ending of “Contagion,” to its prismatic, centripetal play with who the central character really is. New City Film
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4spiegelbeeldsysteem of -structuur
Ilse Heyrman


  

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spiegelbeeldsysteem of -structuur


Definition from film director I used to work with:
Een memorabel beginshot gebruiken en het spiegelen op het einde van de film, waarbij de zelfde beeldgrootte wordt gebruikt (bijvoorbeeld een meisje dat bij het begin van de film in een armzalig hutje zit, maar op het eind, zelfde meisje als prinses in een kasteel)

Example sentence(s):
  • De regisseur gebruikte een spiegelbeeldstructuur in zijn laatste film. - ---My source is a film director I know 

Explanation:
Mijn bron merkt op dat heel vaak de Engelse term gebruikt wordt.
Ilse Heyrman
Italy
Local time: 09:42
Native speaker of: Dutch
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