Summary
During the sixties, there was a popular notion of constructing countercultural buildings. Individuals came to believe that the traditional architecture of buildings was too repetitive. It was always based in the same design. People wanted to experience designs that were out of the ordinary. Eventually, they realized that these unordinary buildings weren’t suited for one’s necessities. These buildings were falling apart and their structure was weak. In contrast, a house like Mamet’s was built to serve its purpose. It was design for people’s needs and also for the ability of the house to remain strong over the course of the years. One in advance, before designing comes into play, needs to know how the materials will impact the purpose of the structure. In film-production, Mamet explains, one can not incorporate signs in a film to notify the audience what is taking place, one does this to strengthen that part of the film that is not ‘good enough’ or ‘incentive enough’. One can not guarantee that they will look at the signs. It is the nature of the human mind to focus on the object with the most interest. Its human perception. For this reason, one must plan before acting. Just like in countercultural architecture, film can’t take massive and unimportant incorporations since it will not be capable of conducting the audience in the same direction the director visualized. Furthermore, a film director uses juxtaposition to conduct the events of a film. The director knows that the audience will make sense of the scenes even if they are not directly related. This is also known as neurosis. The audience subconsciously does when they witness some type of events. No matter the randomness of a film the human mind will always attempt to create meaning out of it. Taking this into account, the film maker(writer) acts accordingly to the perception of the audience(readership). There is no need of inducement or explanation to advert what is going on. The reader is able to follow as the director planed. In the other hand, if the film is not designed in alignment to the audience, then the audience will create their own meaning. They will take the role of a neurotic, creating their own “cause-and-effect” from the film. When the audience looses interest consequently the director attempts to engage the audience by incorporating bizarre scenes. This causes the audience to potentially regain that alignment with the director but at the same time it provokes the director to become more absurd as the film continues. Moreover, a film should consist of ‘syllogism’ which means that it should notify the audience that if A then B; were a solution to the problem perceivable. To conclude, Mamet states that understanding the human perception and the form of material of communication is significant when developing an expressive structure.
Synthesis
Throughout the article, Mamet uses the effects of countercultural activity and the production of film-making to promote the understanding of writing. He notes in various instances that one must “plan up front”, or in other words, to know the purpose of the film (or writing) in order to know how to craft the piece. Thus the writing needs to serve the purpose that it was design for. He notifies that the human perception plays an important role when designing the film. Similarly, to the countercultural architects, one can not design something deriving from their own interest, rather one must design side-to-side with the audience. He makes known that the audience will determine the sequence of the film since it is their nature. It will happen no matter what. “It is our nature to want to make sense of these events-we can’t help it. The human mind would make sense of them even if they were a random juxtaposition.” Mamet provides us with different ways in which the film can “fight back”. For instance, he states that if the audience were to lack interest then we should respond in such way that we can recapture their attention. This could be by incorporating bizarre circumstances that causes the audience to regain interest. Over all, I presume that Mamet does great in soliciting examples to describe how the writer goes in relation with the readership.
During the sixties, there was a popular notion of constructing countercultural buildings. Individuals came to believe that the traditional architecture of buildings was too repetitive. It was always based in the same design. People wanted to experience designs that were out of the ordinary. Eventually, they realized that these unordinary buildings weren’t suited for one’s necessities. These buildings were falling apart and their structure was weak. In contrast, a house like Mamet’s was built to serve its purpose. It was design for people’s needs and also for the ability of the house to remain strong over the course of the years. One in advance, before designing comes into play, needs to know how the materials will impact the purpose of the structure. In film-production, Mamet explains, one can not incorporate signs in a film to notify the audience what is taking place, one does this to strengthen that part of the film that is not ‘good enough’ or ‘incentive enough’. One can not guarantee that they will look at the signs. It is the nature of the human mind to focus on the object with the most interest. Its human perception. For this reason, one must plan before acting. Just like in countercultural architecture, film can’t take massive and unimportant incorporations since it will not be capable of conducting the audience in the same direction the director visualized. Furthermore, a film director uses juxtaposition to conduct the events of a film. The director knows that the audience will make sense of the scenes even if they are not directly related. This is also known as neurosis. The audience subconsciously does when they witness some type of events. No matter the randomness of a film the human mind will always attempt to create meaning out of it. Taking this into account, the film maker(writer) acts accordingly to the perception of the audience(readership). There is no need of inducement or explanation to advert what is going on. The reader is able to follow as the director planed. In the other hand, if the film is not designed in alignment to the audience, then the audience will create their own meaning. They will take the role of a neurotic, creating their own “cause-and-effect” from the film. When the audience looses interest consequently the director attempts to engage the audience by incorporating bizarre scenes. This causes the audience to potentially regain that alignment with the director but at the same time it provokes the director to become more absurd as the film continues. Moreover, a film should consist of ‘syllogism’ which means that it should notify the audience that if A then B; were a solution to the problem perceivable. To conclude, Mamet states that understanding the human perception and the form of material of communication is significant when developing an expressive structure.
Synthesis
Throughout the article, Mamet uses the effects of countercultural activity and the production of film-making to promote the understanding of writing. He notes in various instances that one must “plan up front”, or in other words, to know the purpose of the film (or writing) in order to know how to craft the piece. Thus the writing needs to serve the purpose that it was design for. He notifies that the human perception plays an important role when designing the film. Similarly, to the countercultural architects, one can not design something deriving from their own interest, rather one must design side-to-side with the audience. He makes known that the audience will determine the sequence of the film since it is their nature. It will happen no matter what. “It is our nature to want to make sense of these events-we can’t help it. The human mind would make sense of them even if they were a random juxtaposition.” Mamet provides us with different ways in which the film can “fight back”. For instance, he states that if the audience were to lack interest then we should respond in such way that we can recapture their attention. This could be by incorporating bizarre circumstances that causes the audience to regain interest. Over all, I presume that Mamet does great in soliciting examples to describe how the writer goes in relation with the readership.