Iat 202 lecture 03

1. Iat 202 lecture 03 • susanclements-vivian

2. today • Continue complexity editing • Introduce Experimental film

3. Walter Murch: The Rule of Six • Emotion 51% • Story 23% • Rhythm 10% • Eye-Trace 7% • Two-dimensional plane of screen (stage line) 5% • Three-dimensional space of action 4% “What they (the audience) finally remember is not the editing, not the camerawork, not the performance, not even the story– it’s how they felt” -Walter Murch (p. 18)

4. editing for Discontinuity • Editing for Discontinuity • •      Zettl calls this complexity editing. • •      It’s primary function is to intensify an event and reveal its complexity. • •      This does not have to be an either/or choice. • •      Continuity editing can be followed to a degree. • •      Degrees of continuity violations can be done spatially, temporally, rhythmically,and graphically. • Complexity Editing • •      A media artist can violate or ignore the 180 ° rule, presenting multiple spatial perspectives of same event. • •      A media artist can use a jump cut. • •      A media artist can make the camera circle around an ongoing conversation rather than cut back and forth. • •      In any case, continuity takes a back seat.

5. Example of complexity editing In Scott Pilgram vs. the World editors broke with the continuity system to create an imaginary and dynamic world. They continually destabilized the audiences sense of time and space. http://www.artofthetitle.com/2011/01/03/scott-pilgrim-vs-the-world/

6. Jump Cuts Jump CutA cut which breaks the continuity of time by jumping forward from one part of an action to another David Parsons, Five Bar Gate, 1976. Example: Bruce Conner “Breakaway”

7. Parallel editing • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUKUe15WZkE

8. Soviet Montage theory "montage is an idea that arises from the collision of independent thoughts" wherein "each sequential element is perceived not next to the other, but on top of the other” -- Sergei Eisenstein

9. Soviet Montage theory Metric Montage The metric montage is a rhythmic structuring device. In its purest form, it consists of a series of related or unrelated images that are flashed on the screen at more or less equally spaced intervals. Comparison Collage The comparison montage consists of succeeding shots that juxtapose two events that are thematically related in order to express or reinforce a theme or basic idea. It is also used to construct a specific audience response Collision Montage In the collision montage, we juxtapose dissimilar events, and collide them in order to express or reinforce a concept or feeling. A simple illustrative example, provided by Eisenstein himself follows Analytical Montage In analytical montage you analyze an event for its thematic and structural elements, select the essential elements, and then synthesize them into an intensified screen event. The two basic types of analytical montage are sequential and sectional.

10. Montage sequence: Odessa Steps • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps-v-kZzfec Example: Bruce Conner 10 second film

11. Montage sequence • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARTLckN9e7I • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNMi8fXi5Os • http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/ccManager/clips/code-46-interface-montage • http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/ccManager/clips/bamboozledblackfacemontage.mp4 • http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/ccManager/clips/william-burroughs-a-thanksgiving-prayer-rhetoric • http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/brettservice/clips/graduate_clip.mp4

12. What is experimental film • A film that rejects the conventions of mainstream movies and explores the possibilities of the medium itself. • Experimental films have been referred to as avant-garde, underground, personal, or independent • Arguably the most famous, important and discussed of ALL experimental films is Luis Bunuel’s Un ChienAndalou (An Andalusian Dog).

13. Ballet Mécanique(1924) - American composer George Antheil and the filmmaker/artist Fernand Léger Abstract films some abstract films are organized around purely abstract forms, such as color, shape or movement, many abstract films begin with real objects

14. Associational Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance, is a 1982 film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music omposedby Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke. Associational films are organized around the grouping of images or shots to create a poetic comparison. While the images may separately have no connection, how they are edited together makes a larger statement or impression.

15. Films that explore motion itself In films such as Rhythm 21 and Rhythm 23, motion is choreographed in horizontal and vertical movements and scale changes of the forms to establish depth. The subject matter is reduced to nonobjective lines and rectangles that move in alignment to each to each other. Kranser 'Motion Graphics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEgULqLn5iU

16. Films that explore motion itself http://www.nfb.ca/explore-all-directors/norman-mclaren

17. Movies that defy conventions • Martin Arnold • Stan Brakhage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxqHOk-PjSo&playnext=1&list=PL8D8210B5A3D9C2EF&feature=results_main • Maya Deren – Meshes of the Afternoon • Kenneth Anger – ScorpioRising

18. Continuing next week – movies outside the mainstream • Harmony Korine: Gummo • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0NhA4dqI08 • Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uZgJapYmEI • Chris Marker • http://monoskop.org/Chris_Marker • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-smEWxVUy3A

19. Widescreen Test Pattern (16:9) Aspect Ratio Test (Should appear circular) 4x3 16x9

20. Iat 100 lecture 01 fin