Abstract
Decoupage or cinematic segmentation is a step by step map used by filmmaker to produce a film or television show, and cinematic special effect is reconstruction and re-creation of unrealistic or impossible scenes during production process. Shahnameh Ferdowsi, due to its attractive, deep and imaginative stories, enjoys a high capacity to be exploited in the field of movies and cinematic productions. The author aims to define principles and basic concepts of decoupage and special effects as well as to extract famous stories on each of the mythological, heroic and historical sections of the Shahnameh and to adapt the poems to cinematic segmentations. The author also aims to investigate each hemistich or line as a visual shot, and battles descriptions and marvels illustrated in epic and heroic works as special effects which are capable of being reconstructed in the world of movies. Analysis of mentioned stories and adapting Ferdowsi's imageries to the scenes defined in the modern scripts, has flaunted inherent ability of the Shahnameh to regenerate and adapt itself to the present time due to its creative and illustrator poet, and represents Ferdowsi as a filmmaker with a cinematic mind. At the end, the story will be analyzed and decoupaged and turns into a full screenplay, without any interferes and just based on Ferdowsi poems to become a work of art in various visual formats such as movies, TV shows, animations, computer games, etc. At the same time, it accounts for both aspects of form and content in a prominent work.
Highlights
Decoupage or cinematic segmentation is a step by step map used by filmmaker to produce a film or television show, and cinematic special effect is reconstruction and re-creation of unrealistic or impossible scenes during production process
"Shahnameh is closer to cinema in compare to other arts; Shahnameh and cinema are inseparable, Shahnameh poems allow you to plunge in imageries and after soaking in the imageries embark on cinematic visualization".(Dehghanpour et al, 2010: 85)
Segmentation or technical cutting is a French term, and one of the director's duties which includes deciding on the location of the camera at the scene, lighting type, image size, camera angle, camera movements, the number of images needed to display a location, bridging shots, each sound which is supposed to be heard on the stage (Any sound other than dialogue) and other details related to picturing the script
Summary
Cinema is one form of art and since it is fed by the culture it will be one of the strongest and most widespread forms of popular culture. In most references this important phenomenon of twenty century is attributed to auguste and louis lumière, manufacturers of photographic materials of Lyon, France, or to Edison. After Lumière brothers, Georges Méliès promoted cinema technology. Georges Méliès invented Trucage or cinematic tricks, namely what today we call it cinematic special effects. Porter evolved cinema fundamentally and structurally, and presented it as the phenomenon we know today. There are two methods to examine the relationships between cinema and society One of these approaches focuses on the impact of cinema on society and is called "impact theory", and the other one reflects social issues in the movies and is called "reflection theory".... Reflection theory considers movies as documents that reflect social life and one can perceive social developments and trends through them" (Safaryan, 2010)
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