Real time (literature and film)
Under real-time means both in the literature (especially in terms of novels ) as in the film the compliance of the time shown with the narrative time. If you therefore need the same amount of time to read a book passage or to watch a film sequence, as the depicted scenes last, the relevant text passages or film scenes are told in real time .
If the episode of a real-time series on television is 60 minutes long, the action takes place in exactly this time. Commercial breaks are sometimes included, which is why the actual film material (e.g. on DVD ) can be shorter.
In order to achieve an exact representation in real time, restrictions in the narrative style must be accepted. Changes of scene of the protagonists are difficult. Well-known examples in literature are Ulysses by James Joyce , Lieutenant Gustl and Fräulein Else by Arthur Schnitzler . In the case of the films, these include cocktail for a corpse , twelve noon , Lola runs , against time or 88 minutes . Even Dr. Strange or How I Learned to Love the Bomb is essentially real-time.
The most popular real-time series to date is the thriller series 24 with Kiefer Sutherland in the lead role. Other examples are Alone Against Time (children's series, 2009–2011), based on the model of 24 , and The Royle Family ( sitcom , 1998–2000).
In addition to feature films and TV series, there are also real-time TV documentaries. So told 24h Berlin - a day in the life a full day in the German capital. Dozens of camera teams followed the everyday life of more than 50 protagonists on September 5, 2008, the resulting material was assembled into a 24-hour real-time film and broadcast to the minute exactly one year after the recording.
literature
Kaul, Susanne (ed.); Brössel, Stephan (ed.): Realtime in the film. Concepts - Effects - Contexts , Fink 2020, ISBN 978-3-8467-6251-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ filmszene.de
- ↑ "24" movie will be released in 2012. ( Memento from April 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Courier
- ↑ Jan-Rüdiger Vogler: Crime for children. Class target criminal hunt . In: Der Tagesspiegel , February 3, 2010; Retrieved May 26, 2012