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Famous filmmakers

David Wark Griffith.

He is known in the world as the pioneer American motion-picture director. He had developed many of the basic techniques of filmmaking. His famous films are The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance. He was the first film maker who used flashbacks and fade-outs. D.W. Griffith is often considered the most important figure of American cinema for his command of film techniques and expressive skills.

   Lev Kuleshov.

Lev Kuleshov is a famous film art director. He conducted a famous experiment  that shown that depending on how shots are assembled the audience will attach a specific meaning or emotion to it. In his experiment. Kuleshov cut an actor with shots of three different subjects: a hot plate of soup, a girl in a coffin, and a pretty woman lying in a coach. The footage of the actor was the same expressionless gaze. Yet the audience raved his performance, saying first he looked hungry, then sad, then lustful.

Sergei Eisenstein.


Sergei Eisenstein was a pioneering Soviet Russian film director and film theorist, often considered to be the "Father of Montage". His famous films are Strike, Battleship Potemkin, October, Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible. He was a pioneer in the use of montage, a specific use of film editing. He believed that editing could be used not just expounding a scene or moment, through a 'linkage' of related images. Eisenstein felt the 'collision' of shots could be used to manipulate the emotions of the audience and create film metaphors. He believed that an idea should be derived from the juxtaposition of two independent shots, bringing an element of collage into film. He developed what he called 'methods of montage' :

- metric;

- rhythmetic;

- tonal;

- overtonal;
- intellectual.

- EDITING - the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film.

- CUT - one image is suddenly replaced by another, without a visible transition. 

OVERLAPPING EDIT - cuts that repeat part or all of an action, thus expanding its viewing time and plot duration.

CROSSCUTTING - swiftly cutting backwards and forwards between more than one scene.

MONTAGE - style of editing involving rapid cutting so that one image is juxtaposed with another or one scene quickly dissolves into the next.

LOVING ICT

Eyeline match technique

This is a link to video that shows an example of eyeline match technique in the film editing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSFD6aIhvFI

Reverse Shot Video Example

Classical Hollywood Editing

Techniques which are used in Classical Hollywood Editing:

Continuity editing- cutting in order to maintain a clear narrative of action.

Established shot- the opening shot in a scene that which establishes the setting.

Cross-cutting- cutting from one scene of action to another to establish action occurring at the same time.

Cut-ins-used for keeping continuity when there is a break in the action. For example, a close up.

Eyeline matches-an editing technique that shows a character looking off screen and then they cut to what the are looking at. It makes a connection between the character and what they are looking at.

Shot/reverse shot- used often in scenes with dialogue, shows one character looking in the direction of the other character and that character looking back at the first.

Defenitions

Continuity Edit - Editing that creates action that flows smoothly across shots and scenes without jarring visual inconsistencies. Establishes a sence of story for the viewer.

Match Cut - A cut made on action or movement between two shots in which the action has been overlapped either by repetition of the action or by the use of more than one camera. (Film Editing).

Shot -  A developed photographic image.

Reverse shot - a shot that views the action from the opposite side of the previous shot, as during a conversation between two actors, giving the effect of looking from one actor to the other.

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