Lecture 7 - The Edit and the Editor

During this lecture we discussed the idea about how a film's editor creates meaning as well as how emotion can be manipulated through techniques such as the Kuleshov Effect. The film screened to go along with this discussion was (500) Days of Summer (2009).

During the discussion I also featured a video of Alfred Hitcock discussing the Kuleshov Effect, re-posted here:

 

Below are links to various articles and post that expand the lecture. Please be sure to overlook and examine all of them as I could choose to pull elements from any article to include in the exam. 

• We talked a lot about editing and how it creates meaning and emotion. This article delves much deeper in how by explaining Why Film Editing Works.
• Listverse proposes their Top 10 Best Film Editing Sequences. 
• A major topic regarded Soviet Montage and how the Kuleshov Effect works. This IO9 expands by asking Can the Kuleshov Effect Really Control Your Perception of Other People's Feeling? 
• On the lighter side, this articles list 8 Magical Movie Montages with videos featuring Rocky, Up, and Rushmore. 
• We discussed the idea of Theatrical Cuts VS Director's Cuts.
• In a follow up are three articles featuring the Director's Guild of America establishing the history of the Directors' Cut, Mental Floss citing examples of 10 Director's Cuts that Changed the Plot of their film, and A.V. Club arguing 13-Plus Movies Weakened by (their) Director's cuts (which brings up the E.T. director's cut we discussed in the lecture).

Lecture 6 - The Production Design

We discussed the importance of production design as well as the role of the Production Designer for film. The film chosen by the class to be screened was Batman Returns (1992).

Below is a second video outlying the making of the film...

 

 ...as well as links to articles I think would be of assistance with the understanding of production design:

We talked about the Elements of Art but this article uses the visual elements to springboard into a discussion of the Elements of Film. 

Meet in the Lobby outlines their 4 Films that Helped Define Production Design. 

The New York Times get Inside the Production Designer of 'The Hobbit' and discover it takes a whole country to make Middle Earth.

Finally, I would not normally post a Tumblr tag but this one dedicated for Production Design is stunning. Take the time and investigate.

The slides for this week lecture can be found here. Enjoy.