intro to editing
TRANSCRIPT
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
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?