intro to editing

What emotions are

these people

feeling?

Why are they feeling

this way?

To construct meaning through

film editing

Where on the scale would you place yourself, based on your current knowledge of how editing is used to create meaning?

Narrative

Representation

Connotation

To Understand how

meaning is created

through editing

Initially, films were just one continuous shot.Lumiere’s ‘A train pulling into a station at Ciotat’ (1887)

Editing was originally discovered by accident

Editing was experimented with to create meaning and was used as a propaganda tool

Audiences made their own meaning, usually through socialcontexts

To Understand how

meaning is created

through editing

In the 1920s, 2 filmmakers from Soviet Russia, Kuleshov and Eisenstein, experimented with the way film could be edited to create meaning.

Kuleshov Experiment Their findings were used

for political propaganda filmmaking

To Understand how

meaning is created

through editing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruoPT9JeYHA

Watch the following sequence and think about how it is edited

Battleship Potemkin (1925)

Consider: What images are shown? How they are presented? How does it make you feel? How would it make a Russian person feel who

was watching this film in the 1920s?

To Understand how

meaning is created

through editing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFrMLRQIT_k&safe=active

To Understand how

meaning is created

through editing

Research examples of how montage has been used in film and write a blog post about one example, which explains why you think it is effective. Embed the montage clip in your blog postAs a group, create your own propaganda film using montage.

To Understand how

meaning is created

through editing

Where on the scale would you place your understanding, based on your recent practice of using editing to create meaning?