To Do This Week
Make Space (5%) :
Shoot and edit a 30-60 second video that uses continuity rules to connect shots taking place in in one continuous space. For example, someone making toast in the kitchen, etc. Or you can use uses continuity rules to connect discontinuous spaces into an imaginary whole. For example, a character leaves a bedroom and walks into a parking lot, etc.
Watch:
Blog Prompt: Watch the 12 min silent 1929 film by Dimitri Kirsanoff called Brumes d’automne (Autumn Mists). In this experimental short there is no plot just the visualized thoughts of a woman. Describe the editing. What is she thinking? Does the montage work? Does it evoke something for you? Kirsanoff said that his intention in the film was to represent a state of mind “through drastically changed images in which nature was losing its density and unity.”
Class.
- watch Make Spaces videos
- Continuity Rules / plan vs spontaneity
- Montage and Discontinuity talk
- Exercise
- Lost Book Found
Notes
Watch: Make Spaces and One Day videos…
“RULES” CONTINUITY EDITING (AND SHOOTING):
- Establishing shot
- 180 degree rule
- 30 degree rule
- Cut in / Match on Action
- Motivated Pov shot
- Eyeline match/ Shot Reverse Shot
- Empty frame
- Graphic Match
- Parallel action/ Crosscutting
Movement through spaces driven by the narrative.
Montage
Subjectivity/Thoughts & Emotions
Discontinuity/Linkage
1929 film by Dimitri Kirsanoff called Brumes d’automne (Autumn Mists).
Dream Logic/Surrealism
Discontinuity/Collision
An Andalusian Dog, by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí – 1929 (tonal, rhythmic, false continuity)
Discontinuity/Collision (and Linkage)
Shot-to-shot relations:
Spatial Montage
Continuity/Linkage
WATCH:
Lost Book Found – Jem Cohen
La Jetee – Chris Marker
Abigail Child 1982
Nathaniel Dorsky, 1998
Assignment: Due Next Class
Break Space (5%) :
Shoot and edit a 30-60 second video that uses montage or discontinuity in editing to evoke an idea, emotion, dream or thought process.