Early Editing & Cinema

Question 1

Early Russian cinema highly influential

Answer 1

Created Classical Hollywood Style

Question 2

Continuity Editing

Answer 2

Seamless, invisible, immersive, undrisrupted

180 rule, shot reverse shot, eyeliner matches etc.

Question 3

Soviet Montage

Answer 3

Rapid alteration between shots who’s signification occurs at the point of collision (Susan?)
Editing at heart (Important formalisation of Theory)
Exists beyond time and space (Bazin counter)

Question 4

Kuleshove Effect

Answer 4

Intelluctual montage
Viewer extracts a third meaning
Film= Dialectical medium
Eisentein MOTHER AND BABY/ FATMAN
Eisentein worked in theatre first

Question 5

Meyerhold

Answer 5

Creating abstract geometry objects of beauty and simplicity from industrial materials
Constructivism has forced the artist to become the engineer
Eisentein believed the Magnanimous Clock hold would be one of last theatre productions, 1924
Confines of theatre

Question 6

Types of montage

Answer 6

Rhythmic (Sound feects or music eg. marching), tonal, over tonal,metric (Frames of each shot are the same)

Question 7

Man with a Movie Camera 1928

Answer 7

Montage, but let’s confined to Soviet Montage
Playful and visual puns
Kino Parada theory
Vertov critical of fictional and artistic films
Vertov kino eye, (Creating a new fiilmic perceotion that the humna eye could not see.) documentary films