Thinking about how to show my work has been difficult I dont want to just stick to the “norm” with the shots i have the film is obviously gunna be avant guarde, then I rememberd work from people like Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov and the idea of juxtopostion cinema.
“Sergei Eisenstein is an important individual within the world of editing because he developed “The Film Sense” with fast editing and juxtaposition. The school of thought at the time was that shots complemented each other. If you show a person walking then the next shot should help continue the action. Eisenstein developed the idea of juxtaposition. Juxtaposition is the process of showing one thing and another which are unrelated and through combining the two they create a new meaning. Imagine that you are creating a documentary about the night life of students in a pub. You have two shots, A which is a shaker being filled to create a cocktail and shot B is someone dancing. If both shots are juxtaposed then it leads us to believe that although the two shots were unrelated in time and space the student whom we see after the shaker has had his head filled with alcohol which is why he’s behaving that way.” http://www.main-vision.com/richard/montage.shtml
Ivan the terrible by Sergei Eisenstein showing off his style and pace of editing http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076219/
Vertoz most famous piece was “man with a movie camera” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019760/
it threw out convention with its non-narrative approach and the shots he used were pretty much un-seen before he tried to create a movie “without secnario” and using “international language”. these films when first watched to the media savy eye of today seem dull and slow but the film has shaped the way we look at film now having a massive influence on documentary film makers and looking back i think if its an influence that I can incorperate into my film it would be a great start to this module and a stepping stone to better things.
