Analysis of formalism and realism style

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Analysis of formalism and realism style
REALISM STYLE
Film making has been characterized by realism and formalism styles. Realism in film making attempts to reproduce reality in the movie. It makes events and situations in the movie look like they actually happened even if they did not happen in real life. They leave audiences to come up with their own interpretation of meaning of the movie.
Realism movies are generally simple in nature and tend to be shot in actual locations rather than being set in a studio. Camera shooting is so in-depth such that an audience is able to view different casts of the scene like they would in real life situation. This provides the viewer with more scenes to look at and think about them at the same time. Editing in realism films is kept to the minimum level possible and thus there is less fancying and imaginations.
There are many fiction realism movies; however the most familiar ones are documentaries because they document events that actually happened in a straightforward and unassuming manner without much manipulation of the camera. Watching a documentary makes an audience feel like they are actually on the ground.
FORMALISM STYLE
Formalism style portrays the imagination of an artist. Formalism films are more concerned with artist’s vision of the world than reality. They persuade audiences to see things from the artist’s perspective of the situation rather than reality. They are filmed in studio sets designed for film production and involve a lot of camera manipulation.
They are meant to encourage a more mental participation and an average viewer might not fully grasp the significance of what the producer intended to express. Filmmaking is characterized with highly stylized editing. This is common in music videos and avant-garde cinema which shows abstract movies which are hard to understand by an ordinary viewer.
Classicism is a combination of formalism and realism film making styles. In reality, almost no film is neither purely realism nor formalism but rather the combination of the two, although they tend to lean towards either of the two. Most films from Hollywood try to find a more middle ground of the two and such films can be classified as classical.
AWAY FROM HOME
This is a romantic movie revolving around love story with a lot of camera movements. It represents the ideas of the filmmaker rather the reality. The film uses different scenes indicating the formalism aspect which is highly pronounced. The editing of sound and pictures is pronounced within the film.
The power of images in the film is stylized displacing the sense of reality. The story developed in the film appears to expresses personal view and passion of the movie director to matters of love and romance. Extraordinary characters are depicted in the film, for instance, institutionalized woman and a mute man bound on wheelchair in the hospital and mysterious diseases.