What is the main idea of the following passage? Architects should go to the movies. Look at how film directors use perspective, width and height of frame, focus, and what they choose to exclude from view to create a scene. Think about how all of these elements contribute to the mood of a scene. Now think about how elements of what film directors do can transfer to what you do in your own work.

Architects should use film techniques to determine the functional and formal arrangements of buildings.

Architects may be able to benefit from a study of film techniques in seeing how to evoke emotions with their designs.

The best architects are the ones who go to the movies often to get a sense for how to dynamically create particular views.

All of the techniques that film directors use apply equally well to the work that architects do.