Monday 22 October 2012

Filming for Editing: Kuleshov Effect

During the time in the studio the main aim was to film film footage that we could use for practicing editing techniques such as continuity editing and the Kuleshov experiment. Firstly we started by filming a shot of our subject and then shot three different subjects/objects in order to edit together to replicate the Kuleshov experiment, The footage would be edited in a way that the shot of the subject would be intercut with shots of the three different subjects/objects and would cut back to the exact same shot of the first subject, this is to show that through editing the same shot when shown in juxtaposition with different things can communicate various meanings to the audience.

Shot 1: Subject
Shot 2: Object 1


Shot 3: Object 2
Shot 4: Object 3

The above images are shots taken from the footage that we would be using, each shot of an object is going to be edited to be intercut with the shot of the subject to replicate the Kuleshov experiment to create meaning from the juxtaposition of different images wit the subject even though the shot of the subject remains unchanged. During the filming process we attempted to try and use similar objects/subjects as in the original Kuleshov experiment one example being Shot 4: Object 3, the bowl of soup.

The footage below is all of these shots intercut with each other to create an imitation of the Kuleshov experiment to give different meaning to a single shot through the use of what context is given with it through the image that is intercut with it.



Kuleshov effect full from Lewis Mercer on Vimeo.

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