Films are empathy machines that will make us feel one of these five emotions.
Every movie you have ever watched has relied on the emotions you felt during its runtime. Unlike the emotions we feel throughout our day-to-day life, movie emotion is tightly framed and boundaried since it is under the control of the movie.
Movie emotion is safe and inconsequential, yet it can still have an unusually satisfying and pleasurable effect on us. Whether you are aware of this or not, a major function of movies is catharsis. Whatever the desired end state is, the audience will typically have a clear emotional goal at the end of a film.
So how do filmmakers visualize these emotional expectations for their projects? Stephen Follows, a film data and education site, and TellyMoods, an app that recommends films and TV shows across all existing streaming platforms based on real-time analysis of your mood, focused on the emotional promise of each genre of film.
Author: Alyssa Miller
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
