----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Yes, it's true. When I am on the set (I freelance as a DP), we hardly ever analyze what we are shooting. We're too busy getting it in the can and it would bog the flow of the production if we routinely analyzed the work in progress; it would be dowright pompous, I think. The audience does analyze the film. The analysis is not generally purely intellectual and often has to do with likes and dislikes of elements in the film (characters, scenes, whatever). So I do think that although we may not analyze a film as it is being made, as an audience we do analyze on some level; we interpret the films according to our life experieces. I would like to think that we are not stuffed puppets sitting in front of a screen. I apologize for going on for so long but this <analysis, analysis> discussion is intersting. Renato Tonelli