It's interesting to think about how commonplace film and motion picture media has become over time. An audience nowadays goes into a theater or views a youtube video with certain unconscious expectations. Image quality, length, subject matter- these are the things our eyes see without even thinking that it's only shadows on a screen. We've been so conditioned to just accept that we're watching something we forget how amazing it is in concept. I wonder what it would be like to see a movie for the first time, or to watch a tv show for the first time. What is the novelty we look for now beyond the novelty of film itself?
Is it a burden to filmmakers to have an audience be able to realize the 4.5 second close up of the red envelope from the opening means that envelope holds the long lost will of the old rich coot that everyone's looking for? Maybe this does restrict some filmmakers from being original, or from telling their story in a fresh way because they need to cling to that structure with all its patented visual cues.
Or maybe it give the filmmaker free range to play with those expectations. Once you know what's expected, you can play into those expectations or just take a rocket ship in the other direction.
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