Cuts and Transitions
Before get in to Soviet Montage lets review the important cuts from continuity editing and also look at various video transitions. Please watch the video below and write or type all of the different cuts and transitions and their uses. Next week's quiz will include some of them.
Montage
Kuleshov Effect
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“The Kuleshov Effect is a film editing (montage) effect demonstrated by Soviet filmmaker Lev Kuleshov in the 1910s and 1920s. It is a mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation.
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Not only is the Kuleshov effect very important to the creation of Soviet Montage (Soviet montage theory is an approach to understanding and creating cinema that relies heavily upon editing), but it is also important to continuity editing as well.
Here is Alfred Hitchcock explaining how this effect is used in dramatic narrative.