Raiders (Raiders of the Lost Ark - silent, and in black and white)
Steven Soderbergh
Extension 765 - A one-of-a-kind marketplace from Steven Soderbergh
September 22, 2014
(Note: This posting is for educational purposes only.)
I'm assuming the phrase "staging" came out of the theatre world, but it's equally at home (and useful) in the movie world, since the term (roughly defined) refers to how all the various elements of a given scene or piece are aligned, arranged, and coordinated. In movies the role of editing adds something unique: the opportunity to extend and/or expand a visual (or narrative) idea to the limits of one's imagination—a crazy idea that works today is tomorrow's normal...
So I want you to watch this movie and think only about staging, how the shots are built and laid out, what the rules of movement are, what the cutting patterns are...
More, with video (1:55:38)
