Blog 3 Make-Up: Soviet Editiing

In this blog I will be explaining my views on what we learned about on Soviet Editing. I found most of the information to be very useful because this is evolved editing into what it is today. Most of these worked through famine and poverty throughout world war one. One editor Lev Kuleshov was the founder of the Moscow Film School created the Kuleshov Effect, this was a result of an experiment conducted with his student VI Pudovkin. What the Kuleshov effect is, is a series of cut images that are presented to 3 separate audiences. In each image series a medium shot of an expressionless man is intercut with another image 1): man is hungry 2): man is sad 3): the man is happy despite the fact that the shot of the man was identical in each case. Each of these brought emotional responses that was caused by the manipulation of one certain shot being placed after showing the same man.

This is just one important technique that was created from the soviet editors. But I believe this is the best and most important. I think it is the most important because it shows (and proves) that you really can take any sort of shot and change how it is seen to the viewer. You can make it sad moment or you can turn it into the most enjoyable moment you have ever seen. And because of that I think the Kuleshov Effect is the most important technique that can be used in editing.