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To what extent can it be said that your chosen film movement represents an expressionist as opposed to a realist approach to filmmaking? make detailed reference to examples from the silent films you have studied.
Jonathan Sinyor:
Jonathan Sinyor:
At 23 minutes
Establishing shot/Extreme long shot to set the scene and shows the camera personified, seeing everything.
Brechtian distanciation, it shows you the camera, not for entertainment.
The camera covers half of the shot, static over the city, large depth of field, wide lens, high angle shot.
Lifecycle, starting with a marriage.
Crosscutting between the marriage and the establishing shot. Gives a broader sense of people in contrast with a very specific picture. This crosscuts to divorce, showing a new step wherein a young woman can be divorced. Goes against ideas of the studio system as it was shot on location. Adds to the realism of the film.
Modernist technology and focus on industry and bustling cities.
Clean-cut between a divorce and a woman weeping behind a grave.
Sped up divorce footage.
The people covering their eyes: woman giving birth and getting divorced, contrasts with the fact that the film is all about watching and looking. There is an element where we as a spectator feel uncomfortable. Voyeurism, watching when one shouldn't be; the spectator imposes on the privacy of the subjects.
This is due to Brechtian distinction, because we feel cut off from the events and subjects, this makes us feel unwelcome in the scene rather than a part of it.
A large funeral is shown in contrast with someone alone at a grave. It represents a life cycle including: life, death, birth... etc. They are all intercut in a non chronological order. It is a celebration of the city.
Eliot Sofaff:
Within the film there are many cyclical motifs. First five seconds show a carousel, Vertov uses a match dissolve effect, this absorbs the exterior of the carousel, this effect allowing the audience to see how times move forward. It is a celebration of the transition towards modern film making. Shows entertainment and circularity, as a metaphor for the cycle of life. The carousel represents the cycle of life. The chalk all comes together into one piece, symbolising industrialisation.
Use of slow motion was seen as a groundbreaking tool, showing the potential of modern filming. The connotations show the robust nature of women, showing them oppositionally to their week stereotype. Highlights the athleticism and muscularity of the women. Pro equality.
The gaze of the spectator is mediated through the gaze of the diegetic audience. Scopophilia. This shows the forward thinking society. The power of the camera, people can watch sport on camera, slow motion with the camera can give us a deeper perspective than the eye can see; celebrating the camera, modernism.
Mia Kochavi and Yuval Proud:
The fast motion could symbolise the rapid progression of industrialisation.
It could also link to being influenced by the Italian futurism movement. It was also all about celebrating dew technologies and movement. Because tram technology was new, the director was predicting the future of trams that came true, in terms of making them faster.
Natural lighting is included, it is in some ways an accurate representation of reality at the time, a sense of realism is created.
Split screen (by covering half the camera). The fact that it was filmed at the same time and location adds to the idea that industrialisation creates chaos.
The train background noise, a fast pace and rhythm, combined with slow camera tracking movement, combines to give a complex and full image.
Handheld camera combined with lots of cuts adds to the busy atmosphere.
Kuleshov effect: One thing edited next to another, another image comes onto the screen, giving the next shot meaning. With the carriage shot, the film demonstrates the effect that industrialisation had on people. It made society develop as a quicker pace.
(There is a shot of people, horses, cars, trains.)
It is a documentary record of the people and fashions of the times, you could read this film as a documentary as it captures life in reality at the time. The camera both captures and distorts reality at the same time.
(The alloy orchestra, closest version, pace of the music creates an illusion that the pace is moving faster than it is in reality.)
Hint that people knew the technology of cameras. Realistic, takes us away from the film, Brechtian distinction, makes us feel watching a film. Celebration of technology.
It emphasises the importance of the individual with still shots of individual people, which allows the audience to focus closely on them. The still shots make the individuals stand out in contrast to the fast paced motion that comes before of the horse and carts, rapidly moving. Showing lots of people in quick succession depicts them all as part of a community rather than giving specific details about each person, or giving any of them more importance than the others.
Celebrating the life of the city and the components that make up the city. The factory section, the entertainment section. How the city functions in the course of a day.
Fetishisation of the apparatus of film: to be excessively or irrationally devoted to an object, in this case the camera and technology.
Deconstruct in order to construct; deconstructing the process of making the film in order to construct a film.Use of the reverse shot (backwards filming) shows the deconstruction.
Chiaroscuro: the interplay between light and dark: Isolating the industrious woman trapped in her own world, showing the power of the individual within their work place; conjoining both artistry and industry.
Repetition of images (created by editing). This cyclical motif represents the process of how a city lives and breathes, a celebration of the city, the industrial age and technical advance. Society at large and the individuals within it.
Juxtaposition of the young and the old, shows constructivist techniques, putting together the oppositional images represents...
Caitlin Grills and Alice Bordell
Double exposure, of the camera man over the city; showing off the capability of modern technology. Could symbolise how technology is taking over society. Looming over society both literally and metaphorically.
Stop motion shows all different pieces coming together, symbolising constructivism, as society comes together.As a whole, you are left with an impression of the whole city.
Reverse motion creates a magical effect, showing off new technology in celebration of it.
Use of slow motion was seen as a groundbreaking tool, showing the potential of modern filming. The connotations show the robust nature of women, showing them oppositionally to their week stereotype. Highlights the athleticism and muscularity of the women. Pro equality.
The gaze of the spectator is mediated through the gaze of the diegetic audience. Scopophilia. This shows the forward thinking society. The power of the camera, people can watch sport on camera, slow motion with the camera can give us a deeper perspective than the eye can see; celebrating the camera, modernism.
Mia Kochavi and Yuval Proud:
The fast motion could symbolise the rapid progression of industrialisation.
It could also link to being influenced by the Italian futurism movement. It was also all about celebrating dew technologies and movement. Because tram technology was new, the director was predicting the future of trams that came true, in terms of making them faster.
Natural lighting is included, it is in some ways an accurate representation of reality at the time, a sense of realism is created.
Split screen (by covering half the camera). The fact that it was filmed at the same time and location adds to the idea that industrialisation creates chaos.
The train background noise, a fast pace and rhythm, combined with slow camera tracking movement, combines to give a complex and full image.
Handheld camera combined with lots of cuts adds to the busy atmosphere.
Kuleshov effect: One thing edited next to another, another image comes onto the screen, giving the next shot meaning. With the carriage shot, the film demonstrates the effect that industrialisation had on people. It made society develop as a quicker pace.
(There is a shot of people, horses, cars, trains.)
It is a documentary record of the people and fashions of the times, you could read this film as a documentary as it captures life in reality at the time. The camera both captures and distorts reality at the same time.
(The alloy orchestra, closest version, pace of the music creates an illusion that the pace is moving faster than it is in reality.)
Hint that people knew the technology of cameras. Realistic, takes us away from the film, Brechtian distinction, makes us feel watching a film. Celebration of technology.
It emphasises the importance of the individual with still shots of individual people, which allows the audience to focus closely on them. The still shots make the individuals stand out in contrast to the fast paced motion that comes before of the horse and carts, rapidly moving. Showing lots of people in quick succession depicts them all as part of a community rather than giving specific details about each person, or giving any of them more importance than the others.
Celebrating the life of the city and the components that make up the city. The factory section, the entertainment section. How the city functions in the course of a day.
Fetishisation of the apparatus of film: to be excessively or irrationally devoted to an object, in this case the camera and technology.
Deconstruct in order to construct; deconstructing the process of making the film in order to construct a film.Use of the reverse shot (backwards filming) shows the deconstruction.
Chiaroscuro: the interplay between light and dark: Isolating the industrious woman trapped in her own world, showing the power of the individual within their work place; conjoining both artistry and industry.
Repetition of images (created by editing). This cyclical motif represents the process of how a city lives and breathes, a celebration of the city, the industrial age and technical advance. Society at large and the individuals within it.
Juxtaposition of the young and the old, shows constructivist techniques, putting together the oppositional images represents...
Caitlin Grills and Alice Bordell
Double exposure, of the camera man over the city; showing off the capability of modern technology. Could symbolise how technology is taking over society. Looming over society both literally and metaphorically.
Stop motion shows all different pieces coming together, symbolising constructivism, as society comes together.As a whole, you are left with an impression of the whole city.
Reverse motion creates a magical effect, showing off new technology in celebration of it.
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