week 2

WEEK 2

German expressionism and Soviet Montage

German expressionism (1920)

Films deal with madness, betrayal, insanity and many more caused by the WW1

German Expressionism

Characteristics:

• dramatic lighting
• shadows
• defined as rejection of western conventions
• distorted
• bright,clashing colours
• flat shapes
• jagged brushstrokes

German expressionism is something that is totally my style. Plain weird, people don't usually understand what's happening, it's just weird.

One german expressionism film that i watched was Metropolis. It was weird....but i like it. I like the spinning of things in the beginning, the fast pace music, the shadow and lighting. Everything actually.. If i have the guts or in the future if ever i become a filmmaker, I would definitely gonna try this because it's cool and i like weird stuffsssss.

Soviet Montage (1924/1925 - 1930)

Filmmakers today are inspired by what Filmmakers invented in the Soviet Union. They combine contrasting images to tell the message and how to stir the audience's emotion by using music,rhythm and the pace of editingRevolutionaries like Lenin used film to get revolutionary ideas across to people who couldn't read.

In the Kuleshov experiment, filmmakers found out that audience will react differently based on what picture was put in front of a certain footage. By using contrasting images, the audience will be able to compare the two scenes. By using parallelism where two locations or action are shown alternately. Symbolism where one uses a visual representation of an object.

Sergei Eisenstein's montage:

a series of images that is juxtaposed which form a new ideas and emotions from the sequence.

Theory of Montage
Types of Montage:

1. Metric: cuts according to time
2. Rhythmic: according to the rhythm of action
3. Tonal: to create a dramatic meaning, lights and shadows are use
4. Overtonal: combines the first three types.
5. Intellectual: uses conceptional connections.