{"id":11,"date":"2007-02-12T21:44:29","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T04:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/2007\/02\/12\/the-human-heartbeat\/"},"modified":"2007-02-12T21:44:29","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T04:44:29","slug":"the-human-heartbeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/2007\/02\/12\/the-human-heartbeat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Human Heartbeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must admit, I was at first skeptical of Dr. Campbell&#8217;s graphs of film shots.\u00c2\u00a0 The correlation seemed to be minuscule, at best.\u00c2\u00a0 But after really exploring the possibility of the pattern in class, and after watching the actual shots in a scene, I think I understand better what he is talking about.\u00c2\u00a0 Though a director probably doesn&#8217;t meticulously graph out the cuts of each scene before making a movie, I think there is definitely something to be said about an\u00c2\u00a0innate, even instinctual pattern of the cuts of a scene that correspond with the directors intentions for the scene.\u00c2\u00a0 There is a definite rhythm to the cuts of each scene.\u00c2\u00a0 Each scene has aspects that need to be emphasized and brought out, with longer cuts; whereas quicker shots leave less of an impression on our brain; or give us the feeling of anxiousness or uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>The idea was brought up in class by Carmen that the rhythm of the shots of a scene was similar to that of a human heartbeat.\u00c2\u00a0 I included one here so you can determine the possible correlation for yourselves.\u00c2\u00a0 Not to be too hippyish (I&#8217;m cringing as I&#8217;m saying this because it&#8217;s so corny but I&#8217;m going to grit my teeth and just put this out there) but maybe our human heartbeat is a microcosm for a deeper rhythm that transcends into other aspects of our lives, such as film shots?\u00c2\u00a0 Feel free to mock me as necessary.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.physics.unc.edu\/~mcneil\/heartbeat.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must admit, I was at first skeptical of Dr. Campbell&#8217;s graphs of film shots.\u00c2\u00a0 The correlation seemed to be minuscule, at best.\u00c2\u00a0 But after really exploring the possibility of the pattern in class, and after watching the actual shots in a scene, I think I understand better what he is talking about.\u00c2\u00a0 Though a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}