Sututre

Classical Hollywood narrative, editing, sound and mise-en-scene make their films so well that they make only one preffered meaning and they structure their narrative so that the audience fall into only believing this preffered meaning. The audience may be unconsious of this and think they are interpreting it in their own way but really they are being told and made to interpret itthe way the producer has encoded it.

Our imaginations allow us to get sucked into the fillms and relate it to our own experiences and lives outside of the cinema. According to there heorists the audience Stitches itself into a film. This is made easier when the filmmakers make the techniwues, codes and conventions of a film invisible. So you dont notice the editing or the camera angls and what affect they are having on you.

An example of this is in the film Crash.

Even though the narrative and structure of the film has basically told the audience what is going to happen, so they know what is going to happen next they still cannot control how they are feeling when it happens, or how you react when you see it happening on screen. This is because you are stitched into the film. You are relating to it as if it was real. The music and the build up by the filmmaker has been done so well that you are sucked in.