CNGLOBE Week 4 - Early to Late Silent Era PDF

WEEK 4: CNGLOBE GLOBAL CINEMATIC MOVEMENTS EARLY TO LATE SILENT ERA MR. JOSH “LOMSY” LOMAHAN LA SALLE- COLLEGE OF ST. BENILDE (CSB) DE  LESSON OUTLINE CINEMA DURING WORLD WAR I, 1 GERMAN CINEMA, AND RUSSIAN CINEMA READINGS: 2 1) Sergei Eisenstein’s: Beyond the Shot...

WEEK 4: CNGLOBE GLOBAL CINEMATIC MOVEMENTS EARLY TO LATE SILENT ERA MR. JOSH “LOMSY” LOMAHAN LA SALLE- COLLEGE OF ST. BENILDE (CSB) DE  LESSON OUTLINE CINEMA DURING WORLD WAR I, 1 GERMAN CINEMA, AND RUSSIAN CINEMA READINGS: 2 1) Sergei Eisenstein’s: Beyond the Shot (The Cinematographic Principle and the Ideogram) (1929) The Dramaturgy of Film Form (The Dialectical Approach to Film Form) (1929) 2) The Complete Film (1933) by Rudolf Arnheim WHAT IS THE BASIC UNIT OF FILM? SHOT > SCENE > SEQUENCE FILM LANGUAGE The 1905-1912 Nickelodeon boom created the moviegoer who now went to the movies as a habit. When the film opened in March 1915, The Birth of a Nation, it was immediately pronounced “epoch- making” and recognized as a remarkable artistic achievement. T The year just before World War I marked a turning point in the history of the cinema Then, during the nickelodeon era, filmmakers tested ways of telling stories clearly. The Rise of Classical Hollywood Cinema in 1910s The Major Studios Begin to Form: Hollywood Some of the most notable advancements from that time were artificial lightning techniques (both in outside filming and more suspenseful indoor scenes), silhouette effects, animation techniques (frame and clay), parallel actions, cross cuts, more advanced point-of-view shots, reverse-angle cuts and many more. Film constitutes a language, a “visual esperanto.” FILMS AS PROPAGANDA Post World War I - European Cinema - Germany ORIGIN In France and Germany, avant-garde film movements began after World War I, whereas in the USSR, the Soviet Montage movement emerged during the 1920s. On December 18, 1917, the German general Erich Ludendorff ordered the merger of the main German production, distribution, and exhibition companies into the government-subsidized conglomerate Universum Film Aktiengesellschaft (UFA). “golden age” of German cinema during the Weimar Republic (1919–33). German Expressionist Films: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) THE SOVIET CINEMA THE ANSWER CAN BE FOUND IN MONTAGE! Vladimir Lenin and other Bolshevik leaders looked on the motion- picture medium as a means of unifying the huge, disparate nation  THE SOVIET CINEMA IN THE 1920S KEY PERSONS THE KULESHOV GROUP 1921 - “Kuleshov Experiments” The Kuleshov effect principle Kuleshov Effect The Kuleshov Effect is a film editing effect invented by Soviet filmmaker, Lev Kuleshov. It is a mental phenomenon where the audience derives more meaning from the interaction of two back-to-back shots than from one shot in isolation. Kuleshov Effect THE SOVIET MONTAGE Montage 1920s Soviet Cinema Eisenstein, Vertov, Pudovkin, Kuleshov Eisenstein who was also making his own experiments exceeded “Kuleshov Effect” giving out montage which is also called “Soviet Montage”. ‘Montage’ means bringing the conflicting images/shots together that gives a unique contrast leaving a shock and anticipation for the audience. Eisenstein believed that more the conflicting the shots are the more it is intellectual leaving its audience in shock which also stirs their inner emotions. THE KULESHOV GROUP 1921 - “Kuleshov Experiments” The Kuleshov effect principle