MOTIVETIONAL ESSAY & JOURNAL
The silent period of 1885 – 1930 was an age of great creation and experimentation. There were a number of soviet film like Melies, Edwin S Porter, D.W Griffth, Vesvolod I Pudovkin, Sergei Eisenstein. These people revolutionized the film industry with their techniques as film makers/ editors in different ways.
The earliest films were less than 2 minutes’ length, although melies films grew to the length of 14 minutes they still remind as a series of single shots recorded as a performed scene and when it came to editing there was little or no editing at all. During this period camera were placed without any emotional consideration, the lighting wasn’t intentional meaning the films had no lights to make any …show more content…
HE used theoretical devices or a playful sense of fantasy to make his films more dynamic. D.W Griffth is the acknowledged father of film editing in the modern sense, his influence on the mainstream and the Russian revolutionary film was immediate, he came up with a number of dynamic constructions, these were a variation of shots for impact including long shots, the close up, the cut away and the tracking shots these techniques are still being used in the present day.
Vesvolod I Pudovkin attempted to develop a theory of editing that would allow film makers to evolve beyond the classic editing of Griffith by translating his ideas into narrative.
Sergei Eisenstein is a film maker who had a background in theater and design, he attempted to translate the lesions of Gariffth and Karl into a single audience experience he also achieved a lot in the field of editing by the use of these components, the metric montage, the rhythmic montage, tonal montage, Over-tonal montage and the intellectual montage.
In conclusion both Griffith and Eisenstein were influential on the mainstream cinema, and their influence extended far beyond the silent
The silent period of 1885 – 1930 was an age of great creation and experimentation. There were a number of soviet film like Melies, Edwin S Porter, D.W Griffth, Vesvolod I Pudovkin, Sergei Eisenstein. These people revolutionized the film industry with their techniques as film makers/ editors in different ways.
The earliest films were less than 2 minutes’ length, although melies films grew to the length of 14 minutes they still remind as a series of single shots recorded as a performed scene and when it came to editing there was little or no editing at all. During this period camera were placed without any emotional consideration, the lighting wasn’t intentional meaning the films had no lights to make any …show more content…
HE used theoretical devices or a playful sense of fantasy to make his films more dynamic. D.W Griffth is the acknowledged father of film editing in the modern sense, his influence on the mainstream and the Russian revolutionary film was immediate, he came up with a number of dynamic constructions, these were a variation of shots for impact including long shots, the close up, the cut away and the tracking shots these techniques are still being used in the present day.
Vesvolod I Pudovkin attempted to develop a theory of editing that would allow film makers to evolve beyond the classic editing of Griffith by translating his ideas into narrative.
Sergei Eisenstein is a film maker who had a background in theater and design, he attempted to translate the lesions of Gariffth and Karl into a single audience experience he also achieved a lot in the field of editing by the use of these components, the metric montage, the rhythmic montage, tonal montage, Over-tonal montage and the intellectual montage.
In conclusion both Griffith and Eisenstein were influential on the mainstream cinema, and their influence extended far beyond the silent