A very famous demonstration which highlighted the necessity and importance of a particular technique .
Which demonstration ? Also name the technique .
Demonstration of the Kuleshov Effect highlighting the importance of Montage . Read comments for details .
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Demonstration – Kuleshov Effect
technique – film editing (montage)
Demonstration – Kuleshov Effect
Technique – film editing (montage)
Kuleshow effect
Kuleshov edited together a short film in which a shot of the expressionless face of Tsarist matinee idol Ivan Mozzhukhin was alternated with various other shots (a plate of soup, a girl, a little girl’s coffin). The film was shown to an audience who believed that the expression on Mozzhukhin’s face was different each time he appeared, depending on whether he was “looking at” the plate of soup, the girl, or the coffin, showing an expression of hunger, desire or grief respectively.
Kuleshov Effect
Kuleshov edited together a short film in which a shot of the expressionless face of Tsarist matinee idol Ivan Mozzhukhin was alternated with various other shots (a plate of soup, a girl, a little girl’s coffin). The film was shown to an audience who believed that the expression on Mozzhukhin’s face was different each time he appeared, depending on whether he was “looking at” the plate of soup, the girl, or the coffin, showing an expression of hunger, desire or grief respectively. Actually the footage of Mozzhukhin was the same shot repeated over and over again.
[verbatim from Wiki ]
Kuleshov Effect /film editing (montage)
The Kuleshov effect takes its name from Lev Kuleshov, an influential filmmaker in the mid-twentieth century Soviet Union, who illustrated it. It’s a little hard to pin down precisely what the nature of his experiment was. According to Ronald Levaco, Kuleshov shot a single long closeup of an actor named Mozhukhin, sitting still without expression. He then intercut it with various shots, the exact content of which he forgot in his later years, but which, according to his associate Vsevolod Pudovkin, comprised a bowl of soup, a woman in a coffin, and a child with a toy bear. The audience “marveled at the sensitivity of the actor’s range.”
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This is a demo of the Kuleshov effect. nice Q.
The pictures of the actor were shown with various objects – nice dish, coffin, and the chick. The audience then invested their emotions into the actor and were wowed by his potrayal of hunger, grief and desire. In fact, the pictures were the same ‘expressionless’ actor. Thereby proving the effectiveness of combining or montaging pictures.