The Kuleshov effect is a film editing (montage) effect demonstrated by Soviet filmmaker Lev Kuleshov in the 1910s and 1920s. It is a mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation.
Kuleshov edited a short film in which a shot of the expressionless face of Tsarist matinee idol Ivan Mosjoukine was alternated with various other shots (a plate of soup, a girl in a coffin, a woman on a divan). The film was shown to an audience who believed that the expression on Mosjoukine's face was different each time he appeared, depending on whether he was "looking at" the plate of soup, the girl in the coffin, or the woman on the divan, showing an expression of hunger, grief or desire, respectively. The footage of Mosjoukine was actually the same shot each time. Vsevolod Pudovkin (who later claimed to have been the co-creator of the experiment) described in 1929 how the audience "raved about the acting... the heavy pensiveness of his mood over the forgotten soup, were touched and moved by the deep sorrow with which he looked on the dead child, and noted the lust with which he observed the woman. But we knew that in all three cases the face was exactly the same.
I think that this effect is good to let the audience go deeper into the meaning of what is happening on the screen. It has been used greatly ever since Kuleshov came up with it.
Monday 30 October 2017
Post 14 - Sound in Love Actually
We had the task of replacing the sound in a particular scene in Love Actually with our own sound.
Original video:
We recorded our own sound in a quiet room to avoid any background noises being created. I am the one whose voice is used in the recording. We recorded the sound with a phone camera, I think the quality is good despite this being what we used. We then edited the video by adding the voice recording on top of the video, we also added some music to the video which was similar to the original, we were unable to find the original song used. I think that our video went well, the sound is loud and clear, and can be clearly compared with the original video.
Response video:
Sunday 29 October 2017
Post 11 - Mise en scene in Ferris Bueller
The scene I have chosen is the car crash scene. The camera is often focused closely on the car when it is being attacked.
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