COMM 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Continuity Editing, Edwin S. Porter, Kinetoscope
Document Summary
Photography functions: artistic self portrait, historical baudelaire, revealing catacombs. Photography is static, both in terms of it freezing movement and time. The great challenge for photographers was to nd a way to capture and recreate natural movement and by extension, to recreate time. Fantasy- using photographic, mis en scene, and montage to convey something unreal, yet believable. Realism- using all the effects of cinema to create the illusion that the action is real. Mis en scene (creation of look of image) Stage acting conventions- camera shows full length actors, known as a long shot. Fantastic (magic)- uses both superimposition and stop action. Editing, the cut to the next image, is only between scenes (not within). establishes sense of continuity, or sense of linear causality and straight forward progression of time. Dissolve, fade (switch and fade), moving forward. Realistic- early documents of actual life (president mckinley at home 1897) Fiction lms (mis en scene, montage, camera work) tells a story.
