Brianna Bosco
Non-Linear Editing
Alex Bordino
February 23,2015
The Kuleshov Effect is a series of three cut images and is
presented to three separate audiences. These three images are a shot of an
expressionless man, Ivan Mosjoukine, and the other shot is either: A bowl of
soup, a girl and a little girl’s coffin. When the audience looked at these
shots they thought the man looked that way because he was hungry, sad or happy,
despite being the same shot. This film was showed to audiences that believed
that the expression on Mosjoukine’s face was different in every shot. By assembling fragments of pre-existing film from the Tsarist film industry created this film.This
effect was the result of an experiment conducted by Lev Kuleshov and his
student V.I. Pudovkin. Lev Kuleshov was a Russian Filmmaker in the 1910’s and
1920’s and came up with the Kuleshov Effect. In many movies today an actor expression can change the
whole film. In this clip Hitchcock describes how the expression of the man can
be used in many ways. At first he sees the woman and the baby and he smirks,
making him seem like he is harmless and in the next shot he sees a woman in her
bikini and he smirks, making him seem like a creep. This shows how one
expression can evoke the emotions of one thing but then seeing it again with
another shot makes a person react to it a different way.
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