- Origins from Bolshevik revolution - the government recognised film as a useful way to influence the people
- Kuleshov Effect:
- The audience creating meaning from the intersection of shots without context - juxtaposing two images together to create meaning
- Discontinuity editing
- Intellectual montage
- Two unrelated things coming together to create meaning
- Kuleshov conceptualised this idea by cutting a shot with a face between food (to create hunger), a corpse (to create a sense of mourning) and a lady reclining on a sofa (to create desire)
- Eye + water = crying
- Door + ear = eavesdropping
- Knife + heart = anxiety
- Tonal montage
- Combining shots with similar themes to reinforce tone and meaning
- Developed in the 1925 film 'The Battleship Potemkin' to highlight the innocence of the civilians contrasted with the brutality of the Tsarist soldiers
- Metric montage
- The pace/duration of the cuts affecting tone and tension
- Rhythmic montage
- Cutting to music and beats
- Overtonal montage
- A mix of tonal, metric and rhythmic
I would like to incorporate montage into my film as I feel it is a useful tool in conveying emotion and thought without being explicit. Montage allows the audience to piece together themes and motifs in their head rather than relying on traditional exposition.
We also looked at animation and timelapse and I was particularly interested in the Johnny Cash Project, in which a Johnny Cash music video was transformed into a timelapse masterpiece by asking fans to draw over each frame which, when put together in sequence, formed an animated version of the music video:
We also looked at animation and timelapse and I was particularly interested in the Johnny Cash Project, in which a Johnny Cash music video was transformed into a timelapse masterpiece by asking fans to draw over each frame which, when put together in sequence, formed an animated version of the music video:
By limiting people to the same tool, but allowing them to interpret the frame in any way they wanted to, they were able to create a very moving homage to the artist and his legions of fans.
Later on, I attempted attempt at a contrazoom effect using timelapse on a DSLR camera. It did not turn out as well as I had hoped, but for my first attempt, I am pleased with it. I aimed to enter the subject's psychological space whilst manipulating the background at the same time to give the impression of time passing much faster than it actually was. I do not feel this would necessarily work in my piece, but this is something I would like to try in the future. This would allow me to take a new and interesting approach to traditional camerawork, in which I would need to consider how each frame differs from the previous one with much greater appreciation.
My interpretation of the sonnet focuses on the isolation of the central character, therefore, I feel I can integrate the idea of entering their psychological space to enhance this. I could achieve this with the use of close up and extreme close up shots.
Here is what I came up with [note: you may need to leave time for the .gif to load, it is quite a large image]:
Later on, I attempted attempt at a contrazoom effect using timelapse on a DSLR camera. It did not turn out as well as I had hoped, but for my first attempt, I am pleased with it. I aimed to enter the subject's psychological space whilst manipulating the background at the same time to give the impression of time passing much faster than it actually was. I do not feel this would necessarily work in my piece, but this is something I would like to try in the future. This would allow me to take a new and interesting approach to traditional camerawork, in which I would need to consider how each frame differs from the previous one with much greater appreciation.
My interpretation of the sonnet focuses on the isolation of the central character, therefore, I feel I can integrate the idea of entering their psychological space to enhance this. I could achieve this with the use of close up and extreme close up shots.
Here is what I came up with [note: you may need to leave time for the .gif to load, it is quite a large image]:
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