Foregrounding theory was developed to understand responses to both literature and to film, empirical i.e. first hand research focuses on reader response. It examines whether `literariness' in film causes the same effects as those established for literature. In two experiments participants were shown one scene from Shakespeare film adaptations, either low or high in foregrounded elements.
This theory plays a vital significant role in every cinema. If we look closer then we can clearly see that Foregrounding theory is parallel to Russian formalism theory. This theory mainly deals with development of a situation in that particular movie. The motive behind including this theory in the film is to make the audience remember that particular seen in their whole life if it comes to any kind of discussion point. For examples there are so many Bollywood movies whose names comes in our mind with a particular situation in that movie.
Example: Hera Pheri, Schindler's List, Mostly all the Priyadarshan movies and in latest the Marathi movie Time - Pass
It was expected that showing these materials twice would reveal differences in levels of foregrounding effects. It was found that seeing high-foregrounding scenes twice was more enjoyable and made spectators perceive more significant aspects than the low-foregrounding versions of the same scenes did. A third experiment examined the extent to which a foregrounding effect requires spectators' awareness of a `background'. Participants in the experimental group were shown a conventional dinner scene (background) before they saw an unconventional one.
In this we define foregrounding as an effect. It is something that readers and spectators experience (or not). The cause of this effect is found in deviation, deviation from ‘normal’ ways of presenting things.
This theory plays a vital significant role in every cinema. If we look closer then we can clearly see that Foregrounding theory is parallel to Russian formalism theory. This theory mainly deals with development of a situation in that particular movie. The motive behind including this theory in the film is to make the audience remember that particular seen in their whole life if it comes to any kind of discussion point. For examples there are so many Bollywood movies whose names comes in our mind with a particular situation in that movie.
Example: Hera Pheri, Schindler's List, Mostly all the Priyadarshan movies and in latest the Marathi movie Time - Pass
It was expected that showing these materials twice would reveal differences in levels of foregrounding effects. It was found that seeing high-foregrounding scenes twice was more enjoyable and made spectators perceive more significant aspects than the low-foregrounding versions of the same scenes did. A third experiment examined the extent to which a foregrounding effect requires spectators' awareness of a `background'. Participants in the experimental group were shown a conventional dinner scene (background) before they saw an unconventional one.
In this we define foregrounding as an effect. It is something that readers and spectators experience (or not). The cause of this effect is found in deviation, deviation from ‘normal’ ways of presenting things.
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