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Eisenstein’s Thought-Provoking and Unconventional Take on Film Form (reader)

Posted on September 25, 2023September 25, 2023 by Kevin Juzeniw
Sergei Eisenstein’s essay, “A Dialectic Approach to Film Form,” explores the dynamic principles that underlie not only art but, more specifically, film and film form. His philosophy ... Read More

A Case Study in Editing: Spatial Discontinuities and Distortions (Reader)

Posted on September 20, 2023September 20, 2023 by Esther Jung
As discussed in our Film Art textbook, editing is an impactful tool that can build upon the overall form of a movie, and editing gives filmmakers a huge number of options when perfecting their project... Read More

The Power of Great Editing in Films (Reader)

Posted on September 19, 2023September 19, 2023 by David Qiu
Editing, at its core, allows the filmmaker decide what shots to include in a film and what shots to not include. For film editing, the editor have different choices to make in term of how they want to... Read More

(Reader) The Role of Editing in Film and Making Editing Memorable

Posted on September 18, 2023September 19, 2023 by Kayla Lerner
If you think about the aspects of a film as if they were a band, let’s say, you could think of Mise-en-scene as the lyrics or chords, laying out the scene and the tone. The cinematography could be t... Read More

(Reader) Different purposes for editing

Posted on September 17, 2023September 17, 2023 by Zixing Wang
You probably have heard about editing through short video clips on social media, or you may have noticed the changes from shot to shot in a thriller. Filmmakers tend to use cuts to reveal the relation... Read More

(Reader) Long Single-Shot Scenes to Editing — The Progression of Cinema over Time

Posted on September 17, 2023September 17, 2023 by Ajah
Prior to 1920, films gained criticism on whether it was appropriately categorized as cinematography for it to put so much reliance on editing. After this period film theorists began to realize how exp... Read More

Reader – Cinematography within still films

Posted on September 12, 2023November 26, 2023 by Leonard
The chapter “The Shot: Cinematography” in “Film Art: An Introduction” lays out the fundamental elements of cinematography: framing, composition, and visual storytelling. ItR... Read More
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