MPF 290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Dziga Vertov, Shot Reverse Shot, 180-Degree Rule
21 Oct 2016
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Keywords: editing (various), 180-degree rule, shot/reverse shot, pov, reaction shot. How images are combined to create some meaning. A way of cutting to combine multiple shots into sequences that presents events. Many ways to put shots together but the way in which u mix them can change the meaning. Do the right thing uses long and short shots, when sal and jade are talking the shots also include mookie and bro who are watching. If the shot hadn"t lingered on mookies face we would not have understood the full meaning. Just seeing pictures we can come up with a narrative. When u cross cut between to streams of editing (parallel) Edwin s porter - the great train robbery. When we see bank robbers escaping the little girl comes in and the dancers become the ones to catch the thieves (parallel) Dw griffith - way down east 1920.
