To Do This Week
Assignment: Make Space (5%)
Shoot and edit a 30-60 second video that uses continuity rules to connect shots in one continuous space. For example, someone making toast in the kitchen. Alternatively, use continuity rules to connect discontinuous spaces into an imaginary whole, such as a character leaving a bedroom and walking into a parking lot.
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Blog Prompt
Watch the 12-minute silent 1929 film by Dimitri Kirsanoff called Brumes d’automne (Autumn Mists). In this experimental short, there is no plot—only 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 his intention was to represent a state of mind “through drastically changed images in which nature was losing its density and unity.”
Module Notes
Watch One Day and Make Spaces videos
“Rules” of 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 should be driven by the narrative.
Montage
Subjectivity/Thoughts & Emotions
Discontinuity / Linkage
1929 film by Dimitri Kirsanoff: Brumes d’automne (Autumn Mists).
Discuss…
Dream Logic/Surrealism
Discontinuity / Collision
Shot-to-Shot Relations
“postcointnuity” or “Hypercontinuity”
Spatial Montage
Continuity / Linkage
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In-class Assignment
20 Second Montage:
Create a 20-second metric and/or tonal montage (with sound).
For example: a montage of what students do with their hands during a class: type, write, doodle, tap, scroll, etc.
- Metric – editing follows a specific number of frames, duration of shot
- Tonal – editing follows visual correspondences/associations for emotional effect, graphic match
- Overtonal – combines metric, rhythmic and tonal (a chase scene, any intense action/motion)
- Intellectual – editing to create abstract, non-representational ideas
Assignment: 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. Consider sound in your montage!