Sergei Eisenstein

Who is Sergei Eisenstein?
Sergei Eisenstein wan an early Russian film Maker who has been considered to be the 'Father of Montage'. He is mainly known for his silent film strikes (1924). Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October (1927). Eisenstein believed that there was more to editing than just illustrative a scene through 'linkage' if related images.

He created and developed five different methods of montage:

Over Tonal: The over-tonal montage is the accumulation of metric, rhythmic, and tonal montage to show its effect on the audience for an even more abstract effect.

Tonal: Tonal montage uses the emotional meaning of the shots. For example, a sleeping baby would emote calmness and relaxation. (tone implied).

Rhythmic: Rhythmic montage is when there is visual continuity from edit to edit

Intellectual: Intellectual montage is when shots are combined to create an elicit and intellectual meaning.

Metric: Metric montage is where the editing follows a specific number of frames, cutting to the next shot no matter what is happening in the image at that time. This technique is usually used to show the emotional reactions of the audience.

Using Celtx

Celtx is used to organise a script/ play write, it is a better way to tell your stories.

Using celtex you can organise your props costumes and setting

Celtex can also give you the skills to develop your character that you have created.

you can also add words that don't exist in the dictionary to your celtex dictionary

your script can be uploaded and published to celtx froum for public viewing

Using Celtx has helped me to organise my props costume and setting
It has helped me to develop my character

I have learnt to ...

Montage

What is montage?

Montage is the process of cutting up film and then editing it into a screened sequence. It is when the editor takes two pieces of film and combines them to emphasise there meaning

Montage editing uses close-up shots fades dissolves and jump cuts.

 

Where does montage occur in a film trailer?

Montage will usually occur at the end of a film trailer so that that it can build up tention and suspense of the film leaving the viewer wanting more and feeling eager to see the film.

Rules of Picture Composition- Depth Of Field

Depth of field:

Depth of field refers to the range of distance that appears acceptably sharp. It varies depending on camera type, aperture and focusing distance, although print size and viewing distance can also influence our view of depth of field.

Rules of Picture Composition- Head Shot

Head Room:
Head room refers specifically to the distance between the top of the subjects head. Its important to not leave too much head room in a head shot, and the eyes should be in line with the camera.

Rules of Picture Composition- 3rd Frame Rule

Thirds:

This rule states that for an image to be visually interesting, the main focus of the image needs to lie along one of the lines marked in thirds. For example, according to this rule, a horizon shouldn’t be smack bang in the middle of a photo, but on the bottom third. A single tree in a field should be aligned with one of the two vertical lines.

Rules of Picture Composition- Looking Room

Rules Of Picture Composition: Looking Room
Looking room is the negative space between the subjects face and the edge of the screen, specifically it is the space on the side the subject is looking towards

Rule:

There should always be looking room on the side the subject is looking towards as you are literally giving the subject space to look.

Screenshot Premiere

This is how I edited my sequence on Premiere,

Kuleshov Effect

Kuleshov Effect from Joshua Claassen on Vimeo.

What is the Kuleshov effect?

The Kuleshov effect is when an image is put next to another image that is not the same which then allows your brain to create a meaning for those images e.g. the woman is looking straight forward, we then see an image of a book which makes our brain create the meaning that she is reading the book

Crash Premiere Pro

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Evaluation of The Meeting

During this task we were asked to create a small video sequence using continuity editing with our team members. The sequence was given the theme of 'The Meeting'.
To evaluate our skills we all watched everyone's sequence that they created and gave feedback and advice to the different teams so that they could see where they need to improve.
With our sequence we realise that our continuity editing wasn't good due to the fact that we didn't line up our shots and take them in specific areas within the sequence, this then caused our editing to be jumpy.

Current Skills

The current skills that I have in Media are:

• The ability to use Adobe photoshop and indesign to create a music magazine
• I have the ability to manipulate and add effects to an image changing the background and adding different material to it.
• I can create a double page spread from a blank canvas. 
• I have used a professional camera to take pictures from different angles also using a professional camera I can record different shots.
• I have previously used iMovie to create a music video using a wide range of editing techniques from continuity editing to montage editing also using a range of camera shots from a pan to an establishing shot. 

I believe that all of these skill will help me in the next section of this course as I will be using and developing a majority of these skills.