Week 8

Question 1

Overlapping Editing

Answer 1

-The rescue scene is first presented entirely from the interior view (left) and then again from the exterior (right)
-Maintaining temporal continuity is not the aim here

Question 2

Discontinuity Editing

Answer 2

-Any alternative to continuity editing
-Mismatching of temporal and spatial relations (such as overlapping editing)
-Nondiegetic inserts
-Noticeable violations of the axis of action
-Jump cuts

Question 3

The 30 degree rule

Answer 3

-A jump cut will result if the camera is not moved at least 3o degrees from its initial position for the subsequent shot.

Question 4

Soviet Montage

Answer 4

-1917: V.I. Lenin nationalized Soviet film industry and established state film workshops
-Systematic, theoretical study of medium
-Aim: to instruct and influence “the masses”

Question 5

Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948)

Answer 5

-Filmmaker and film theorist
-Eisenstein vs. “bourgeois” realism (ex, realistic theatre)
-“What diabolical mechanism lies hidden in this art that I serve?”
-Film fantasies dispel revolutionary impulses
-Eisenstein’s theatrical “montage of attractions”- intended to thrill and instruct

Question 6

October (1928) (aka Ten days that Shook the World)

Answer 6

-“Intellectual (or dialectical) montage”
-Change results from clash of opposites
-Thesis/antithesis/synthesis
-Editing style: collision, conflict, contrast.
-Eisenstein crosscutting is primarily emotional and conceptual