Grammar of the Shot, 4th Edition

Introduction

 

 

For most of us living in the 21st century, the majority of our daily experiences are inseparable from interactions with digital media. We are constantly communicating with someone or something or being communicated to by someone or something: texting or speaking via smartphones; watching television or streaming media; using the internet; listening to the radio; playing networked video games; reading books, newspapers, and magazines; looking at billboards and advertisements; going to the movies; and on and on it goes. Our ability to understand these communications and gain further meaning from them is reliant upon our education and experiences: can we read, write, and speak a language, recognize images and sounds, decipher symbols, ...