Like any language, Film and TV language has changed over time. Especially in TV films, I think those changes are recently very noticeable. Of course in the dialogs, but also in the way films are shot, cut.
And in the stories that are told.
Not only the themes, but also structurally.More subplots? More and shorter episodes/scenes, much shorter times between a setup of a subproblem and its resolving. Depending on the details you look at, I found other caracteristics of newer filmlanguage.
While basically a story to be conceived as interesting by a human will still have to be a story, that is consist of a protagonist and situation that can provoke interest, and a story development that allows for following it ("learning" something is possible), how it is told is changing.
Is it the new generations that grew up with constant flooding with pieces of information and low level evaluation of everything with either hand up icon or hand down?
Viewers have little time and patience for following longer, deeper scenes? Or just technological changes that enable different storytelling like CG or computer generated content?
What are your experiences? What do you think?
Greetings,
Andrea
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Our attention spans are becoming so short. I've seen it in my own behaviour. I can barely sit through a 30sec tiktok unless it's exceptional. A lot of movies and TV are trying to compete with this head-on by outpacing the trend but I actually think the answer might be to go the other way. Many people are looking for something that actually slows them down and chills them out. The problem TV film content has is it really doesn't have the benefit of the doubt needed to warrant the focus and investment required by the viewer.
The other issue is how TV films are sold and acquired. It's the high-impact trailers that sell.