- Wanted to break the boundaries of 'classical' editing
- Based on the idea that a director does not adapt reality, but uses it for the creation of a new reality. For example, the scenes are not comprised of real men, props and landscapes, but of their images. The dirextor then takes this to create his own 'filmic' space
- "Just as the poet takes uses words to create a new perception of reality, the film director uses shots as his material"
- Wanted not only to tell stories but to interpret and draw intellectual conclusions from them
- Developed 'contructive editing' - for example to show a man falling from a tall building, the first shot would be shown from the window into the net, but the net would not be visible to the screen. It is then shot falling from a slight height to the ground. When put together, it creates the illusion of a man falling from a tall building.
- Found that small details of the scene, if shot all in one shot, would not be noticed by the audience, and these therefore have to be shown seperately - for example 'sinking in the mud' and 'the piercing wind'
- Each shot must make a new and specific point
- Found that by suitable juxtaposition, shots could be given meanings which they had previously not posessed - for example if there was a shot of a man smiling and then a shot of a revolver, followed by the man looking terrified, the man would suggest that he is cowardly. But, if they were reversed, the outcome would be opposite and he would be seen as heroic. Different emotional effect can be achieved according to the order.
- In another experiment, he took an actor and shot him with a neutral expression. They then put the shot next to a can of soup, then to a dead woman, then to a littel girl playing with a toy. In each the audiences raved about his acting skills, about how sad he was about the woman or lovingly looking at the child - but the face was the same for each one, thus proving the emotional control of editing.
- Concentrated as a director on the emotions of the people in his films
- Everything makes sense one clip after another - link by link, brick by brick.
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Pudovkin - Constructive Editing and Heightened Realism
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