Technique of the Cinematic Faraway Shot and its outcome on Building the Scene in the Contemporary Arabic Poem: Hamad Al-Dookhy A Case Study
Abstract
Human arts are no longer isolated or incapable of being blended and melted with other arts. Poetry, in particular, is one of the arts that undergoes framing and enclosing the expressive area with restrictions that bother the creative process. But after the progress of the other arts, principally cinema, we notice the overlap between those two arts has become one of the most significant expressive areas that the poet beseeches to enrich his poetic text with the techniques of this splendid art. One of the cinematic techniques that are apparent in producing the poetic texts is the faraway shot. This plays an important role in building the scene in Al-Dookhy's poetry, and this is reflected throughout the way the poet uses the faraway shot with its photographic diversities. It is the shot that is taken for the thing from an intermediate distance, and displays it in the public atmosphere around it. Hence, the photo in such a shot displays the whole scene with all its contents and decorations, and all the motion manifestations that are linked to that scene, with characters who are moving inside it, and this shout may be internal in a big hall, for instance, or external in a big field or a public road.