The video artists have adapted the techniques of experimental filmmaking: quick cuts, blurred focuses, metaphoric imagery.
He blurs focus by roaming far from his main subject, exploring, for example, Operation Paper Clip, the post-1945 recruitment by the American military of German scientists, including some complicit in the biomedical research of the Nazis.
Yet, The Oxonian Review considers Swift's "listlessness, the bare trees, and snowy indoors" in the music video attuned to the tenor of the song, achieved by "mixing wide shots, medium close ups, and cut-ins of Ms Swift and her ex, matching their gazes across frames, and blurring focus tastefully".
Though Pines runs long and the multiple stories blur focus, I'm moved by Cianfrance's portrayal -- through Gosling who essentially reprises his Valentine role -- of damaged, marginalized men who not only can't find, but wouldn't know how to look for the ticket out.
By varying the velocity and range of the movement, they are able to, in effect, change the focal length and aperture size to control which part of the photo is in focus; the rest is purposely blurred (see "Focus Control for Fixed-Lens Cameras," p. M15).
Mr Keay warns us that he has "intentionally blurred" his focus as "history blends into the foreground of current affairs".
Her expressivity is natural; her attempts to amplify it only blur its focus.
