Slowing down time (in writing & film) - Aaron Sitze

Usporavanje vremena (u pisanju i filmu) - Aaron Sitze

Transcriber: Andrea McDonough Reviewer: Bedirhan Cinar

Prevoditelj: Jasna Matek Recezent: Ivan Stamenković

I got in my first car accident when I was sixteen.

Doživio sam svoju prvu prometnu nesreću sa 16.

I had just gotten my license and I was driving home

Baš sam bio dobio vozačku i vozio se kući

when a car pulled into the intersection

kad je automobil naišao na križanju

and bang! It hit me.

i bum! Pogodio me.

It had happened that quick.

Dogodilo se tako brzo.

Bang!

Bum!

But when I play that memory back,

Ali kad se sad sjetim toga

it doesn't take two seconds.

ne traje niti dvije sekunde.

I see the tires of the car rolling through the stop sign,

Vidim automobilske gume kako prolaze kraj znaka STOP

I have time to think,

imam vremena razmisliti

"You know, I think that car is going to hit me."

„Znaš, mislim da će me taj auto udariti.“

I see the right-hand corner of the hood

Vidim kako se desni kut haube

crumple up like tin foil,

savija kao folija,

I see the red paint flake off and drift off into the air,

vidim crvenu mrlju kako leti u zrak,

I can see all of that, like it's happening in slow motion.

vidim sve to kao u usporenoj snimci.

In my memory, that experience takes ten seconds.

U mome sjećanju to iskustvo traje 10 sekundi.

But why?

Ali zašto?

Why did that memory play back longer

Zašto to sjećanje traje duže

than the actual time it took?

nego što je radnja zapravo trajala?

This is an interesting phenomenon

To je zanimljiv fenomen

and it's not just for car accidents,

i ne odnosi se samo na nesreće,

a roller coaster,

vlak smrti

or a first kiss.

ili prvi poljubac.

These events seem to take longer than they actually take.

Ovi događaji naizgled traju duže nego što zapravo traju.

But why?

And when it comes to writing about that experience,

Ali zašto?

A što se tiče pisanja o tome iskustvu,

how do I get that peculiar feeling across?

kako da prenesem taj neobičan osjećaj?

How do I slow down time as a writer?

Kako da usporim vrijeme kao pisac?

To get the answer, we have to visit Hollywood.

Da bismo odgovorili na to pitanje, moramo posjetiti Hollywood

You see, the way filmmakers create slow motion

Način na koji filmaši stvaraju usporenu snimku

will tell us a lot about how writers can create slow motion.

reći će nam puno o tome kako pisci mogu stvoriti usporenost

First, let's remember how film works.

Prvo, prisjetimo se kako funkcionira film.

When the camera turns on, it's not recording motion,

Kada se upali kamera, ona ne snima pokret

it's taking lots and lots of individual pictures.

nego snima puno zasebnih fotografija.

Then when those pictures are played back in the projector,

Zatim, kad se te slike ponovno prikažu na projektoru

they blend together and create the appearance of motion,

spajaju se i stvore dojam pokreta

like a flip book.

poput listajuće knjige.

So, let's imagine that a camera man needs

Pa zamislimo da kamerman treba

to film his actress skipping through a field of daisies

snimiti glumicu kako skakuće po polju tratinčica

in regular motion.

u stvarnom pokretu/brzini.

Ready, action.

Priprema, akcija.

She skips across the field,

Skakuće preko polja,

he records it,

on snima

and...cut.

i rez.

Let's say for the sake of easy math

Radi jednostavnijeg računanja,

that our camera man took 50 pictures,

neka je naš kamerman snimio 50 slika,

50 little frames on that length of film.

50 malih kadrova na toj dužini filma.

Now, let's take that film and play it back

Pa, uzmimo taj film i pogledajmo ga

at the rate of 50 frames per 5 seconds.

brzinom od 50 kadrova svakih 5 sekundi.

This rate is constant,

Ova brzina je stalna,

the projector will always go at the same speed.

projektor uvijek radi istom brzinom.

It's easy, we got 50 frames, so our film takes 5 seconds.

Lako je, imamo 50 kadrova pa naš film traje 5 sekundi.

She skips across the field...

Ona skakuće po polju...

...and cut!

...i rez!

So, then, how do we slow down time in film?

Pa, kako da onda usporimo vrijeme u filmu?

How do we create slow motion?

Kako da stvorimo usporenu snimku?

Maybe this is a surprise, but we don't take less pictures,

Možda je iznenađujuće, ali ne snimimo manje fotografija,

we take more pictures.

snimimo više fotografija.

Ready, action!

Priprema, akcija!

She skips across the field,

Skakuće po polju,

he records it,

on snima

and cut.

i rez.

Now we have a lot of film, a long length,

Sada imamo dugu rolu filma,

let's say 100 frames long.

recimo 100 kadrova dugu.

Now, when we play it back,

Pa, kada je reproduciramo,

it takes a longer time to get through,

duže traje dok je pogledamo do kraja

and there's the actress in slow motion.

i glumica je u usporenoj snimci.

Skipping through the field of daisies!

Skakuće po polju tratinčica!

Which brings us now to writing.

To nas dovodi do pisanja.

When you're writing a narrative,

Kada pišete priču,

you may want to use slow motion in one of your scenes.

možda ćete htjeti usporiti neke scene.

It's a cool effect, just like it is in Hollywood,

To je fora efekt, baš kao u Hollywoodu

and it draws the reader's attention to important moments.

i usmjerava čitateljevu pažnju na važne trenutke.

Well, here's how you do it.

Pa, evo kako se to radi.

You see, when we read,

Vidite, kad čitamo

our brain makes the words into pictures

naš mozak pretvara riječi u slike

and the pictures blend into action.

a slike stvore akciju

So what we read is what we see

pa je ono što pročitamo ono što vidimo

in the time it takes us to read it.

u vremenu koje nam treba da to pročitamo.

For example, imagine you're writing a narrative

Zamislite da ste pisac koji piše priču

about your game-winning free throw in the championship game.

o svojem slobodnom bacanju

koje donosi pobjedu u igri za prventstvo.

Here's a moment as a writer

To je trenutak koji kao pisac želite usporiti

that you might want to slow down time

kako biste uistinu uhvatili napetost

to really capture the second-by-second tension

koju scena proizvodi sekundu za sekundom

produced by the scene.

Skoncentirate se,

You concentrate,

you put the pencil to paper,

prislonite olovku na papir,

you really want to slow down time,

stvarno želite usporiti vrijeme,

pišete,

you write,

"I shot the ball in the hoop.

„Ubacio sam loptu u koš.

Time slowed down. Then we won."

Vrijeme je usporilo. Onda smo pobjedili.“

Dvije sekunde su potrebne da se to pročita;

To read that, takes two seconds;

therefore, your reader imagines a scene that takes two seconds.

stoga, Vaš čitatelj zamišlja scenu koja traje dvije sekunde.

Lopta ide u zrak, pada, gotovo.

Ball goes up, comes down, done.

Iako ste napisali, „vrijeme je usporilo“,

See, even though you wrote, "time slowed down,"

you didn't achieve that effect for your reader.

niste postigli efekt za svog čitatelja.

Just saying it doesn't make it happen.

Samo kažem da ga to ne stvara.

Now, let's take what we make about film,

Sad razmislimo o tome što znamo o filmu,

time slows down with more pictures,

vrijeme uspori s više fotografija,

and try again.

i pokušajmo ponovno.

Ovoga puta napišite PUNO više.

This time write A LOT more.

„Savio sam koljena i labavo držao loptu.

"I bent my knees and held the ball loosely.

Letting the ball bounce on the floor once more,

Pustio da lopta dotakne pod još jednom,

I gathered my thoughts.

sabrao sam misli.

Ovo je bio taj trenutak.

This was the moment.

Desna ruka mi se izdužila kad sam otpustio loptu nježnim trzajem,

My right arm extended as I released the ball with a gentle flick,

blago se zarotirala kad je u luku dotakla obruč.

it rotated slightly as it arched toward the rim.

I held my breath.

Zadržao sam dah

The ball nudged the back rim,

Lopta je lagano gurkala ploču,

falling through the net with a gentle, satisfying swish.

padajući kroz mrežu uz nježan zadovoljavajući zvuk.

A publika je izletila iz svojih sjedala.“

And the crowd exploded from their seats."

Vidite, samo smo usporili vrijeme pisanjem

See, we just slowed down time through our writing.

The bottom line is this:

Bit je u tome

there are moments in life that take longer

što postoje trenuci u životu koji traju duže

than they actually take.

nego što zapravo traju.

When you're planning out your narrative,

Kada radite plan za svoju priču,

think about those moments,

razmislite o tim trenucima,

those snippets of life that took longer than the watch:

onim kratkim životnim trenucima koji traju duže nego na snimci:

the moment of hearing bad news,

trenutak kada primimo loše vijesti,

trenutak kada primimo dobre vijesti,

the moment of hearing good news,

trenutak uzbuđenja kada shvatite

the moment of exhilaration when you realize you hit the jump,

da ste stvorili trenutak neizvjesnosti

or the moment when you realize you aren't going to land it.

ili trenutak kada shvatite da ga nećete moći pravilno dočarati.

Once you identify these moments in your narrative,

Jednom kad identificirate ove trenutke u svojoj priči

you can use this effect of slow motion when you write.

možete koristiti efekt usporene snimke pri pisanju.

Just remember, it's not enough to say, "time slowed down"

Nije dovoljno navesti, „vrijeme je usporilo“

and it's not enough to throw a couple adjectives

i nije dovoljno ubaciti nekoliko pridjeva

in a sentence and call it done either.

u rečenicu i time je završiti.

Descriptive writing is good writing, that's true.

Opisno pisanje je dobro pisanje, to je istina.

But if you want to express the feeling of slow motion in life,

Ali ako želite izraziti osjećaj usporene snimke u životu

you have to actually take up

morate zapravo zauzeti

more physical space on the page,

više fizičkog prostora na stranici,

use more film so to speak.

iskoristiti više filmske vrpce.

In doing so, you will create tension

I čineći to stvorit ćete uzbuđenje

and keep your reader interested.

i zadržati interes čitatelja

And that way, the next time you write,

A na taj način, sljedeći puta kad budete pisali,

you'll control the camera of your own writing.

kontrolirat ćete kameru vlastitog pisanja.