The Unexpected Doreen Brandon . Orlando Calvo . Tom GaritanoMelanie Sampson . Renia Singleton . Brandon Strickland

Date: October 2, 2011Film Theory 3002 *01Mirrer

WHAT IS IT THAT IS UNEXPECTED?Sergei saw how cinema began to develop.In Kabuki, Sergei Eisenstein saw effects that might be achieved through a camera.

Sergei also admired the fragmented acting. That's where an actor would act a scene with their single body part. The next scene would be a different body part. The time of each shirt would decrease, which would cause more a dramatic affect.

What Surprised Eisenstein?

He admired the mechanical cutting by actors. The actor were able to break up their acting without transitions. An actor was able to shift their emotions, which was similar to how Eisenstein shifted emotions in the way he cut shots. 

Eisenstein praised the Japanese for their inst inct ive pract ice.

How does Eisenstein relate his experience to cinema?

He relates his experience with Japan and the Kabuki in many ways. One is he talks about the “Karauki-musume” is a melodramatic farce. How this ends in “incredible gloom” and for long intervals is criminally torn in both directions. (27)

His experience to cinema Cont.

Eisenstein mentions that trying to combine elements is one of the hardest things to do. He also talks about how Charlie Chaplin was unable to balance tying the elements together. This shows how difficult it may be. Eisenstein also mentions the archaism of non-differentiated sense of “provocations” and “montage thinking.” (27) Eisenstein took away thins from the Kabuki theatre which he could relate to his own work.

What is Conventionalism?

 the philosophical attitude that fundamental principles of a certain kind are grounded on (explicit or implicit) agreements in society, rather than on external reality

KABUKI THEATRE

Are conventional! How can such conventions move Europeans?!”Use a monistic ensemble

“Sound-movement-space-voice don’t accompany another, but each are an element of significance.”

Montage

A technique in film editing in which a series of short shots are edited into a sequence to condense space, time, and information.

Movies that show Montage

YouTube C l ips http://www.youtu

be.com/watch?v=XwN5ndR65QM (over tonal)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh7kVYYBNyk

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