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Posted by nobody special on 09/26/61 11:56
Bill wrote:
> Now that you mention it, it would be very interesting to edit a wedding
> video using Eisenstein's principles.
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>From Wikipedia:
Sergei Eisenstein was briefly a student of Kuleshov's, but the two
parted ways because they had different ideas of montage. Eisenstein
regarded montage as a dialectical means of creating meaning. By
contrasting unrelated shots he tried to provoke associations in the
viewer, which were induced by shocks.
Like Kuleshov, Eisenstein was a theorist in addition to being a
filmmaker. He established five "methods of montage":
1. Metric - based solely on the length of a shot
2. Rhythmic - based on the length of a shot, plus the visual
composition of the image
3. Tonal - based on the dominant visual style of an image
4. Overtonal - based on the interaction of dominant visual styles
5. Intellectual - based on the symbolic content generated by two
(or more) juxtaposed images; a film metaphor
Stanley Kubrick noted that the editing process is the one phase of
production that is truly unique to motion pictures. Every other aspect
of filmmaking originated in a different medium than film (photography,
art direction, writing, sound recording), but editing is the one
process that is unique to film. In Alexender Walker's Stanley Kubrick
Directs, Kubrick was quoted as saying, "I love editing. I think I like
it more than any other phase of filmmaking. If I wanted to be
frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely
a way of producing film to edit."
In his book, On Film Editing, Edward Dmytryk stipulates seven "rules of
cutting" that a good editor should follow:
* "Rule 1. Never make a cut without a positive reason.
* "Rule 2. When undecided about the exact frame to cut on, cut long
rather than short" (Dmytryk, 23).
* "Rule 3: Whenever possible cut 'in movement'" (Dmytryk, 27).
* "Rule 4: The 'fresh' is preferable to the 'stale'" (Dmytryk, 37).
* "Rule 5: All scenes should begin and end with continuing action"
(Dmytryk, 38).
* "Rule 6: Cut for proper values rather than proper 'matches'"
(Dmytryk, 44).
* "Rule 7: Substance first-then form" (Dmytryk, 145).
According to Walter Murch, when it comes to film editing, there are six
main criteria, which are (in order of importance, most important
first):
* emotion
* story
* rhythm
* eye trace
* two-dimensional place of the screen
* three-dimensional space of action
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