KELLEY MCANDREWSBRENT CLARKE

Through Theatre to Cinema

Montage

Primo: photo-fragments of nature are recorded

Secundo: The photo fragments are combined in various ways

Primo + Secundo = MONTAGENature

Real Doing & Pictorial Imagination

Reactions to events The Mexican: Prize-Fight Scene

Acrobatics of Expression Gesture -> Gymnastics Rage -> Somersault Lyricism -> “on the mast of death”

Typage

Specific approach to events by the content of the film.

Root in Theatre.An indicator of definite affinities to real life

through camera.

Commedia Del’Arte & Typage

Typage is the modern development of Commedia Del’Arte.

Modern Film Typage is based on the need for presenting each new figure in our first glimpse of him so sharply and completely that futher use of this figure may be known as an element.

Theatrical Elements

Musicians use a scale of sounds

The painter scales the color of the background

The writer scales a row of sounds and words

Dialogue

Intersections of two dialogues sharpen characters and play, quicken tempo, and multiply the comic possibilities. The Sage

Music-Hall elementFlaubert: Two lines of speech are interlaced

Strike

Out of mechanical fusion, form plastic synthesis, the attempt evolves into thematic synthesis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWiDciPuSW4

Down with the Story? Yes to the Story!

Then, seemed to be an attack on individualism upon revolutionary cinema.

The Story

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L18SnOxM7OU