TCF 112 1st Edition Lecture 3 Outline of Last Lecture I Silent Comedy and the Birth of the Hollywood Studio Era a D W Griffith i Key Contributions b Triangle Company i Ince ii Sennet c Charlie Chaplin i Comedy Method d Buster Keaton i Comedy Method e Legacy of Silent Films Outline of Current Lecture I Editing and Early Soviet Cinema a Historical Overview b Editing i Continuity editing ii Jump cuts iii Computer aided editing c Overview of Soviet Cinema d Lev Kuleshov i Kuleshov Experiment ii Lessons of Kuleshov Experiment e Sergei Eisenstein i Eisenstein Film Clips ii Eisenstein Aesthetic f Dziga Vertov Current Lecture Editing and Early Soviet Cinema Historical Overview 1895 1918 Early cinema and emergence of continuity edit These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute 1919 1929 Soviet Montage 1930 1959 Studio Era 1960 1989 Modern disjunctive editing 1990 present Editing in the digital age Editing Examples in Music Videos Continuity editing o For storytelling o Examples Beastie Boys Sabotage Dr Dre Forget About Dre Jump cuts o For aesthetic ends o Examples The White Stripes The Hardest Buton The Thermals Pillar of Salt Computer Aided Editing o Examples The Chemical Brothers Star Guitar Kylie Monique Come into my World Overview of Soviet Cinema Emerged after the Russian Revolution in 1917 1908 1917 Russian Cinema The Soviet Union nationalized the film industry in 1919 and was one of the first nations to institute state film schools V Lenin saw film as an ideal vehicle for propaganda Film was NOT viewed as primarily for entertainment but for education and spreading messages to the illiterate people Pudovkin The foundation of film art is editing Lev Kuleshov Filmmaker teacher theorist Kuleshov workshops experimented with editing on pieces of film his students and he already had Intolerance 1916 became the textbook for him and his students Kuleshov Experiment Hitchcock s pure cinema was an updated version of Kuleshov s Experiment o Kuleshov Effect o Shots have 2 meanings Shot by self intraframe Shot in relation to other shots interframe o Creative Geography real world spaces can be manipulated in film to produce convincing fictional worlds o Diegesis fictional world Lessons of Kuleshov Experiment o Edits serve narrative function Glance object cut flashbacks flash forward o Edits Produce intellectual responses Associative edits and contrast cuts o Edits produce emotional responses Changing tempo of edits Relational editing can cause visceral response to film anxiety rhythmic Sergei Eisenstein Master of Soviet montage Transformed Marxist theory into editing technique Influenceso Lev Kuleshov s work practice o Japanese calligraphy formal o Dialectical method film image A film image B Idea C political Eisenstein Film Clips o Strike 1925 o Batleship Potemkin 1925 o October 1927 Eisenstein s Aesthetic o Revolutionary anti bourgeois No individual hero Hero the collective the proletariat No stars or professional actors No studio shooting o Compositional Motif Example vertical line used to represent strength stability and power o Expanded Time at crucial moments psychologically emotional time is longer than narrative time Repeated action Flurry of details Increased number and frequency of shots o Collision of opposites Dziga Vertov Kino Pravda film truth film series after the Russian Revolution Objective film life as it is as if the camera were absent Rejected fictional film narratives Films were a type of agit prop agitation and propaganda