Freedom of Reaction

They judge a viewpoint, based on the ‘canons’ in a particular field. Canons are created for a purposefully narrowed down view, in order to facilitate understanding of the human actions, or are a result of unconditional love for exceptional work like Picasso. However, at the end of the day, canons (reference points) are also relative. One should never be judgmental, nor categorize a reaction to a work. The so called expert or no expert doesn’t exist in the artistic space. This may appear to be a justification of an outsiders (read me) reaction to art, but this very thought is the essence of this blogging space.
Carrying this momentum, I am tempted to give movie making a cause-effect treatment of that of an engineer. Movie making is a tough business. I say this, even without incorporating the operational and human issues involved. The process can be looked at as a set of equations:

However unbelievable it may sound, assume the director has a set of dumb terminals (in terms of actors, musicians, cinematographers, scriptwriter wagerah wagerah) which can be moulded as she wants. Every frame is made up a ‘success factor’ which is a sum of functions of music, acting, art direction etc. This can be put as
S = f1 (music) + f2 (acting) + f3 (lighting) +……….
These functions f1, f2, f3. change with each frame making the director’s job further complex. So,
S1= {f1, f2, f3…}, S2 = {g1, g2, g3…} and so on.

In order to faithfully express her artistic itch, she better get a majority of these frames right. Now, lets get the operation and human angles and it makes for quite a heady concoction.
So how does the maker pull it off?
Possibilities are either (1) she tries to get everything bang on without taking into account the importance of individual elements or (2) she is unduly partial to some of these elements and strives to get it right.
The former is a risky proposition; get it all right or perish. It is also not humanely possible to get it all right in all frames.
The latter is a safer route. This is what we mean when we refer to the director's characteristic touch. An example would be bhansali's look in all his films. He gets the f(cinematography), f(art direction) etc, right in all his frames. Probability of success factor being higher is more in this scenario.

Note: Canons are standards which act as references to all further artworks. For instance: Picasso’s works are canons for abstract art.