The IMR and the 'primitive style'

IMR - Institutional Mode of Representation

In film theory, the Institutional Mode of Representation is the style of films that developed during the classic era of Hollywood Cinema and continues to this day...

The 'Primitive Style':

The 'Primitive Style' of movie making predated classical Hollywood's continuity system. (IMR)

These techniques include frontal staging or a tableau style, exaggerated gestures, hardly any camera movement and no point of view shots. Remember early cinema was silent and unsophisticated, more like melodramatic mime.

Some of the innovations developed from birth of a nation D.W. Griffith (1915)

  • The length of each shot was designed to influence our emotional response, with dramatic scenes cut faster.
  • The film was edited to create a lengthy, dramatic epic narrative.
  • Subtitles were used.
  • Griffith filmed at night.
  • He used tinting extensively.
  • Used panning.
  • He perfected close ups to convey emotion.
  • Cross - cutting.
  • Varied camera angles, using things like high angle shots and panoramic long shots.
Griffith did all this in a nine week period using only one camera and two lenses.


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