FILM 1F94 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Soviet Montage Theory, Master Shot, Classical Hollywood Cinema
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It happened one night editing & narrative: Elements of narrative, of style, and of producrion practices. Minimize confusion for viewer, doesn"t draw attention to itself. Maintain consistency of tone, rhythm and spatial reflections. Match-on-action: an edit where an action is begun in one shot and completed in another shot and the implication that it is one continuous action. Eyeline match: an editing transition that shows us a character looking, and in a second shot, what that character is looking at. Point of view editing: similar, with the difference that we see precisely what the character sees, as if through their eyes. Wipe : a transitional device between shots in which shot b wipes across shot a, vertically or horizontally, to replace it. Montage sequence (not to be confused with soviet montage ) A sequence of shots showing a condensed series of events .
