Week 07 | Intro to Film Editing

"The script is paramount, but the editor often becomes the third author of the work as the input can make or break the movie."

-Chris Gill, Editor of "Sunshine"

Scene:#7 of 15

Shot:Low Angle CU

Action:Push

As a young teacher, Lev Kuleshov reordered images from films, where he discovered that the meaning of a scene was radically changed depending on the order of the shots. This led Kuleshov to try an experiment: he juxtaposed the image of a man with a blank expression with a bowl of soup, a young corpse in a coffin and a pretty girl. audiences praised the actor for his subtlety of performance. Of course, there was no performance. The connection between the two images was made entirely within the head of the viewer. This realization would forever be commemorated in film schools everywhere as the Kuleshov Effect. - Jonathan Crow

And so we stay in revolutionary Russia for one of the last giant building blocks in both filmmaking and editing. Watch the lecture on Montage theory and the scene from Sunshine (2007) on the following tab.

After viewing the videos, click on the "D" to the left to go to Moodle and take part in the discussion forum.

History 07: Montage Theory

"Sunshine," Cpt. Kaneda's Death (2007)

Project 2: "Different Perspectives" Due

Project Overview
Premiere Tutorial Videos (Review)

Project 2: Different Perspectives is due this week by 11:55PM Sunday. Review tutorials on exporting, uploading and linking on the next tab.

When you're ready, click on the "P" to the left to go to Moodle upload forum for Project 2. There, you'll be able to submit the video links to your project, and critique your classmates projects as well.

Premiere Tutorial Course: Importing Media, pt 2

Review these tools from Adobe Premiere Pro Tutorials to help finish this project.