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5/11/2017
While in the Red Army, Sergei Eisenstein combined his service as a technician with study of theater, philosophy, psychology and linguistics. He staged and performed in several productions, for which he also designed sets and costumes. He found that the film medium as the most efficient tool of communist propaganda. By cutting and merging the negatives to create a montage, he can manipulate time and space to create new meanings. He believes in the theories of the Soviet montage, which are a series of shots that form conflict and collision to conjure up critical emotions in his audience. His first movie is Strike, where he incorporates many of his techniques in camera angles, mirror reflections, and visual metaphors. …show more content…
The stairs help guide the eyes of the audience in the frame of the picture. The special aspect of this guiding line is very unconventional and creative. While there is a beginning and an end from the start of the stairs to the end of the frame, there is no start, nor end for the stream of people walking down the street. It is a legion of people that keeps coming and coming, which seems like there is an infinite number of them. This also helps illustrate the meaning that the power of the public and the regular citizen is stronger than any governmental system. They go down the street to seek for justice, to seek for a change in the malicious party that killed the sailor “for a spoonful of borscht” quote on quote. It is very admirable with the work of the camera operator when the extreme long shot was performed with movement despite of the limited technology at the time. Nowadays, those shots are often done using a Phantom fly-cam. The panning shot at the 36th minute is very long in terms of its play time as well as the actual presented scene. Some audience can personally feel the pride of the director when including this scene. Since it is so large in scale, and massive in production, the audience would rarely see such a terrific composition of that much of people and architecture in any other …show more content…
A clenched fist, that’s all Eisenstein needs his actors and actresses to do. The people in this sequence raise up their fists high up to the sky to show their strongest determination to rebel over this corrupted system that mistreats its people. The talent of the director is that he can select the most universal physical movement to fit into his movie.
Overall, the use of montage in this part of the movie is very beautifully composed and effective in conveying its message. Based on the idea of montage prompts the most exquisite and stunning composition of people and architecture in the history of cinematography. Using the help of the splendid acting and selective universal physical language, the message of the movie has extended over the limitation of silent film. On the other hand, the later composed music also adds up to the successful of this movie as a
Presentation
5/11/2017
While in the Red Army, Sergei Eisenstein combined his service as a technician with study of theater, philosophy, psychology and linguistics. He staged and performed in several productions, for which he also designed sets and costumes. He found that the film medium as the most efficient tool of communist propaganda. By cutting and merging the negatives to create a montage, he can manipulate time and space to create new meanings. He believes in the theories of the Soviet montage, which are a series of shots that form conflict and collision to conjure up critical emotions in his audience. His first movie is Strike, where he incorporates many of his techniques in camera angles, mirror reflections, and visual metaphors. …show more content…
The stairs help guide the eyes of the audience in the frame of the picture. The special aspect of this guiding line is very unconventional and creative. While there is a beginning and an end from the start of the stairs to the end of the frame, there is no start, nor end for the stream of people walking down the street. It is a legion of people that keeps coming and coming, which seems like there is an infinite number of them. This also helps illustrate the meaning that the power of the public and the regular citizen is stronger than any governmental system. They go down the street to seek for justice, to seek for a change in the malicious party that killed the sailor “for a spoonful of borscht” quote on quote. It is very admirable with the work of the camera operator when the extreme long shot was performed with movement despite of the limited technology at the time. Nowadays, those shots are often done using a Phantom fly-cam. The panning shot at the 36th minute is very long in terms of its play time as well as the actual presented scene. Some audience can personally feel the pride of the director when including this scene. Since it is so large in scale, and massive in production, the audience would rarely see such a terrific composition of that much of people and architecture in any other …show more content…
A clenched fist, that’s all Eisenstein needs his actors and actresses to do. The people in this sequence raise up their fists high up to the sky to show their strongest determination to rebel over this corrupted system that mistreats its people. The talent of the director is that he can select the most universal physical movement to fit into his movie.
Overall, the use of montage in this part of the movie is very beautifully composed and effective in conveying its message. Based on the idea of montage prompts the most exquisite and stunning composition of people and architecture in the history of cinematography. Using the help of the splendid acting and selective universal physical language, the message of the movie has extended over the limitation of silent film. On the other hand, the later composed music also adds up to the successful of this movie as a