Man With The Movie Camera: Shot Change Constructs A New Perspective
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Man with The Movie Camera: Shot Change constructs a New Perspective
Avant Garde Film Midterm
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Question #4
Time was used by Vertov as an important factor in editing as well as in the daily lives of humans.
With editing he utilized the essence of time to his advantage. Vertov wanted a certain rhythm of cuts to exist in the movie. He desired a choppy effect. The cameras, themselves, were supposed to produce a rithym in movements, too. The point was he wanted to make as many cuts and rigid motions as possible to make the film appear as hark jerky as possible to the audience. One reason was that he did not at all want the continuous motion of normative movies to be present. He desired the ebb and flow which daily life really is. He perceived that life was not one smooth ride without any bumps or collisions, but rather it was kind of unpredictable filled with jarring incidents at every corner. The other reason for the director's use of cuts and camera movements was he wanted to make sure people remembered that they were watching a movie and that they were not in some fantasy land. At one point in the middle of the film there was a scene with Vertov's wife clipping and editing the movie in a studio.
Then there was a still-frame before the movie continues. This was done so viewers would again realize they were watching a movie, because too often people take things for granted.
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In this essay, the author
- Explains that time was used by vertov as an important factor in editing as well as in production.
- Opines that he wanted a certain rhythm of cuts to exist in the movie.
- Opines that workers needed time to relax. the movie showed a lot of sporting events.
- Explains that vertov showed the film with an equality of the sexes.
- Explains that the life cycle continues to get longer and this is the case with another sequence.
- Analyzes how close-ups and long-shots give the audience more of a perspective on life.
- Explains the movement of gears, which start to move, are at rest, and come to a stop.
- Opines that the film gave an excellent view of daily life in russia.
- Explains that he wanted to make the film as hark jerky as possible to the audience. he wanted the ebb and flow of daily life.
- Analyzes how vertov wanted to make sure people remembered they were watching a movie and that they weren't in fantasy land.
- Analyzes how vertov made sure he got in all the features of daily life. he wasn't filming actors, but was doing it for the first time.
- Explains the camera man was on one carriage and he was being filmed from another carriage. heavy labor was the focus.
- Analyzes how the camera focused on the busy hands moving and working in the working motif to show all the tiny details of life on film.
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