Tuesday 4 December 2012

Sergei Eisenstein & Lev Kuleshov

Sergei Eisenstein

Eisenstein believed that film montage could create ideas or have an impact beyond the individual images. Two or more images edited together create a "tertium quid" (third thing) that makes the whole greater than the sum of its individual parts.

5 kinds of montage

Metric Montage - length or duration of film in a montage - clips edited together, or constant intervals. different tempo for the structure of the montage.

Rhythmic Structure - Play against the metre, could be unsynchronised with beat of the editing. Tension in sequence

Tonal Montage - Melody for emotion - using light in certain ways, different lighting strategies to change the mood etc. 

Overtonal Montage - Texture of objects in the shots, what happens to the object. The effect light has on the objects and how it touches the props objects.

Intellectual Montage - The use of symbols or well known items that everyone will recognise

Lev Kuleshov – The Kuleshov Effect

The Kuleshov Effect was thought up by Lev Kuleshov, the initial effect of it is to bring out the emotions of the audience. What the audience will see is maybe an emotional scene where someone could be dying, and the camera will switch back and forth from the emotional occurrence and another person, showing a very blank face, with almost no emotion whatsoever,  the camera will usually be a close up of extreme close up, only showing the persons expressions. So overall the effect is to make the audience feel involved, and become emotional towards what has happened, and think about why the person is showing no emotion.

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