Wednesday, January 25, 2023

ASSIGNMENT 2: Shooting for the Edit

 READ THE SECTION on Continuity Editing:

WATCH THE FOLLOWING SHORT VIDEOS AND ESSAYS

Bleat 

  1. Continuity and Narrative: Coverage, zoning, cutting on action



Cameraman

LINKS: 

Basics- Read this chapter on montage and editing

Film as phenomena: Simultenaeity and the shattering of the solid world 

One shot: observing the world

  1. Continuity and Narrative: Coverage, zoning, cutting on action


Discontinuity 

  • Jump cuts:  Note: not all the examples in this otherwise great tutorial are true jump cuts. Some are zoned cuts on action. See if you can figure out which is which.


Story Denali- storytelling from POV of dog 

Experimental: Found footage and layering: creating a dialogue


Example films from students 

Montage made from the everyday 

SIUC Student works:

In his essay about the long take as used by 

Quattro Volte Film Clips

LINKS: Basics- Read this chapter on montage and editing • Moving Pictures by Russell Leigh Sharman o Soviet Montage and the Kuleshov effect o Kelly Reichart on Elaborated Time Film as phenomena: Simultenaeity and the shattering of the solid world • Picasso and Braques go to the movies: Braque believed an artist experienced beauty "… in terms of volume, of line, of mass, of weight, and through that beauty [he] interpret[s] [his] subjective impression...”[17]"objects shattered into fragments... [as] a way of getting closest to the object... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Braque One shot: observing the world • Bela Tar by Kevin B Lee • Bela Tar Visions of Europe Continuity and Narrative: Coverage, zoning, cutting on action • How To Shoot A Scene With A Single Camera • How to tell a story in 5 shots • Graphic matches and matches on action • Graphic matches in I want Candy from Marie Antoinette • Dulac, The Seashell and the Clergyman : Note: Dulac is known as an experimental maker Discontinuity • Jump cuts: Note: not all the examples in this otherwise great tutorial are true jump cuts. Some are zoned cuts on action. See if you can figure out which is which. Story Denali- storytelling from POV of dog • My Dudus (story) Experimental: Found footage and layering: creating a dialogue • Songs for Earth and Folk by Cauleen Smith https://vimeo.com/71024774 • My name is Oona by Gunvor Nelson clip https://vimeo.com/242768525 Example films from students Montage made from the everyday SIUC Student works: