The Kuleshov Effect is the idea that the cut away in a scene can change the meaning of a simple emotion. This helps viewers to derive a deeper meaning from a sequence of shots rather than just watching it and experiencing the expected emotion.
Me, Oliver and Jake attempted to create our own version of the Kuleshov Effect, using simple scenes that ultimately displayed different emotions. We did this as we thought it was important to understand the use of cutaways and how they can shape a scene before filming our thriller opening for our AS Coursework.
''The Kuleshov Effect is a film editing (montage) effect demonstrated by Russian filmmaker Lev Kuleshov in the 1910s and 1920s.It is a mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation.'' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuleshov_Effect
I feel we successfully managed to create a Kuleshov experiment that changed the meaning of the smile with the use of 3 independent cutaways that all held different meanings. Another famous example of the Kuleshov Experiment is Alfred Hitchcock's video...
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