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  • You never can tell – description of movements and discussion of the results

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    In the early days of film, the camera was very static. In modern times the equipment is very versatile and easy to move which gives the crew many opportunities to change the point of view and follow the persons on stage in many different ways. The data presented below concentrates on the differences of the…

  • You never can tell – shot sizes and image depth

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    This post presents some results from the English and Hungarian TV-versions of G.B. Shaw’s play “You never can tell”. Shot sizes Image size plays a crucial role in the viewer’s ability to perceive the state of play and the movements of individuals in it. In a extreme close-up, the actor’s face fills the entire screen,…

  • Recording procedure in “You never can tell”

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    The research material was recopied and a time code was added. Shots [1] , shot sizes [2](Figure 1), number of people, and depth of the images were recorded in seconds. The change in any of these variables always started a new line in the protocol. This method created the protocol body. Camera and person movements…

  • Hungarian and English plays compared

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    This post is starts a series about analyzing British and Hungarian versions of the same play. G.B. Shaw’s play You never can tell (1962, original 1896) was selected for the study. Since the mental models of the Finnish and Swedish languages differ significantly (Strømnes, 1974), it is conceivable that the mental models of other languages…

  • What about related languages? Estonian, Hungarian, and English

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    The last post was about differences in pictorial structures in productions where the teams came from two different language groups – the Indo-European (Swedish/Norwegian) and the Ural-Altaic (Finnish). English belongs to the Indo-European group while Estonian and Hungarian belong to the Ural- Altaic group. According to the Strømnes information theory, linguistic communication means conveying information…

  • The Nordic TV-productions research

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    In the previous studies reported below, differences between language groups were sought from verbal communication. However, the differences in mental models are the underlying part of the theory. If their different structures had an impact on the formation and behavior of the mental models of persons belonging to a language group, it should most clearly…