Responses

Composing Movement
I found this video interesting because I hadn't really thought about the relation to the movement in the foreground of films in relation to the background, nor had I considered using movement to contrast a component of a scene that stays static (such as someone standing still but the rain falling behind them or the wind blowing profusely). It gives me something to think about both in terms of how I orient the movement in my figure ground, in addition to how I can think about the motion of the camera as the narrator points out throughout the video as things zoom in and then zoom out to wide shots from closeups and vice versa

Editing Space & Time
It was nice to see Paprika be touched on significantly in this video as I am a huge fan of the film and all of the other works by that director. I benefitted from seeing different techniques used in both animation and film as ways to segue from one scene to another smoothly without the cuts made being super obvious. I think paired with camera movement such as zooming in scene echoing provides a lot of transitional room and ways to combine multiple stories, relating to the techniques from the video essay breakdown. Time and space are interesting aspects of almost everything we watch because often times there are numerous storylines occurring simultaneously even though they appear to be happening chronologically. This is especially the case in anime as they will follow one group of people or a singular character, and then quickly return back to other groups of characters focusing on what they are doing.  

How to Structure a Video Essay 
This video on structure was beneficil to me because it made me think about how to truly construct a coherent and cohesive plot line. What was especially helpful was the ideas of "meanwhile back at the ranch" as a way to cut between two parallel occurring stories, and the formula presented by south park's creator of asking what happened, and what resulted from something happening, allowing you to setup what the film or short is about to focus on and explore. It helped me recognize these concepts in things that I watch, because often times I don't delve so deep into it as to break down what is happening in a formulaic way.

Poetry  
I see the aspect of poetry in film as a form of 4 Dimensional painting. You are using not only the actor and their expressions, but their movements and the way the frame is composed with them in it to evoke emotion, or as a means of getting plot points/scene points across without the use of any dialogue. I think visual poetry is sort of the culmination of the previous 3 topics, as we utilize movement, story structure, and space/time in order to inform the progression of a scene. In the same way that poetry implants feelings or ways of thinking into the readers mind, film can do this in the exact same way, while requiring no text or dialogue as body language is another communicative form in film