2013 Post 6: Media Language - Editing

In post 1 you had a brief introduction to media language and the areas it covers. It's essential that we take a more detailed look at it so that you develop your skills a little prior so that you can develop a style to your short film and be more creative.

So in this post you need to take your notes from the lesson and from any additional research you've done and blog the extent of your understanding of editing. You will need to maximise your presentation and ICT marks by including, images, links, and constructed clips.

 GO TO TOWN ON IT.

As a minimum you should be including:

• Explanation of editing as part of the Media Language.
• Montage
• Discuss the work of  Edwin Porter,
• Outline the Kuleshov Effect, create your own and insert with evaluative comments discussing the effect on the audience and how things could have been different and therefore gain affected the outcome.
• Review Battleship Potemkin in relation to montage - discuss your reactions.
• Introduce, insert and discuss your planned montage.
• During the lesson Alex decided to plan a montage for the character of Alan at the swimming gala so ther rest of you need to probably work together (as you don't want your film to be over dominated by montage) to plan the shot list for a short montage that could be inserted at another point in the proposed film. Alex and I discussed possible points could be:
• Developing the infered sexual relationship OR
• Illustrating his reaction when Sophie realises its wrong and decides to tell someone. (This I think is my prefered point, but you could discuss it with Alex a little more.)
• Transparency editing and exercise.
• Framed editing, New French Wave.

KEEP AN EYE ON THIS LIST I MAY ADD TO IT.

Additional Resources From the lesson:

Battleship Potemkin - Eisenstein wrote the film as a revolutionary propaganda film,^[5][6] but also used it to test his theories of "montage".^[7] The revolutionary Soviet filmmakers of the Kuleshov school of filmmaking were experimenting with the effect of film editing on audiences, and Eisenstein attempted to edit the film in such a way as to produce the greatest emotional response, so that the viewer would feel sympathy for the rebellious sailors of the Battleship Potemkin and hatred for their cruel overlords. In the manner of most propaganda, the characterization is simple, so that the audience could clearly see with whom they should sympathize.

Slavko Vorkapich "The Furies" 1934
Humoresque (1946) - Montage Sequence
The Language of Film
Yale Education - Editing