Fluiditate

English translation: flow

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Romanian term or phrase:	Fluiditate
English translation:	flow

12:06 Apr 5, 2013

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Romanian to English translations [PRO]
Cinema, Film, TV, Drama

Romanian term or phrase: Fluiditate

Contextul este următorul:

„(....)a folosit în premieră o cameră purtată pe șine.
De lemn, pe atunci, dar care oferea filmului mai multă fluiditate comparativ cu imaginile statice.”

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Ana-Maria Vieru KudoZ activity Questions: 57 (7 open) (12 without valid answers) Answers: 248 Romania
Local time: 11:57

flow

Explanation:
E doar o sugestie.
Un exemplu dintr-un alt domeniu, dar relevant:
http://www.imageandnarrative.be/inarchive/thinking_pictures/...
The continuous flow of images speeding by does not leave us the time for critical distance and contemplation, like when looking at a painting or photograph, but acts immediately on a pre-reflexive, pre-linguistic level of thought.

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Annamaria Amik
Local time: 11:57

Grading comment

Multumesc
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Summary of answers provided

5 +2

fluidity

Daniel Grigoras

4 +1

mobility

Nina Iordache

3 +2

flow

Annamaria Amik

Discussion entries: 1

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10 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

mobility

Explanation:
un exemplu frumos:
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3684514?uid=3738920&ui...

aici:
http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/21144

si aici:
http://ruleofthirdsphotography.com/camera-mobility/

Nina Iordache
Romania
Local time: 11:57
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Romanian

11 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

flow

Annamaria Amik
Local time: 11:57
Native speaker of:

Hungarian,

Romanian
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

Multumesc

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Sara Barsan

55 mins

neutral

Daniel Grigoras: there's a difference between "the film's fluidity" and "the flow of images"; it's not about the flow of images, but about the fluidity of the film, which nonetheless is influenced by the flow of the shots // ∃ "ununiform flow" => flow doesn't say much

58 mins

-> I did mention that my example was not specific to this field :-) Nonetheless, films/motion pictures ARE images and my source compared the *flow* of images to the staticity of paintings or photos, hence the relevance.

agree

Tünde Lőrincz: I think a good flow of the shots assigns a good flow to the film

3 hrs

-> Thanks for the confirmation. I think so too. After all, fluidity is the property of flowing/ability to flow.

51 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

fluiditate fluidity

Explanation:
"[...] the impression of reality cannot be reduced to perspective or the fluidity of shot changes [...]" (J. Aumont - Aesthetics of film http://books.google.ro/books?id=_B9jz5DLpIAC&pg=PA124&dq=mov... )

"cinematographers achieved a new fluidity in their camera work that resulted in high realism" (Rémi Fournier Lanzoni - French Cinema http://books.google.ro/books?id=Nkyr7ARHY6sC&pg=PA239&dq=mov... )

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Note added at 7 hrs (2013-04-05 19:20:21 GMT)
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The fluidity with which the camera moves on its wooden tracks helps to give in turn fluidity to the film itself. Translating "fluiditate" with "flow" would be wrong because the term "flow" is vague, while the term "fluidity" makes it clear that flow of images is fluid. It's not just about the flow of the movie, it's about the flow being fluid.

"The movement is normally quite fluid" ( http://www.springhurst.org/cinemagic/glossary_terms.htm ) + "The viewer should not notice the cuts, and shots should flow together (ed. i.e. be fluid) naturally." ( http://www.filmclass.net/glossary.htm ) => It's all about being fluid, not flowing. That a film flows is self-explanatory. The fussiness is about how does it flow: in a fluid manner or in ungraciously unfluid one?

Anyway, who cares, right?
Or maybe is it, who understands?

Daniel Grigoras
Romania
Native speaker of: Romanian

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