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.