#kuleshov effect

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(from Wikipedia) The Kuleshov effect is a film editing (montage) effect …. [a] mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation.

Today, in a moment of great weakness and immense shame, I could not recall the name of the Kuleshov Effect. To remedy this, I have created a shit post. Now I will never forget what the Kuleshov Effect is, and hopefully you won’t either.

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Sweet Alfred, Pervert Alfred

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Slow clap dot gif

The Orson Welles slow clap gif is a universal internet seal of approval. It loops beautifully, Welles seems to be struggling to remain stoic in the face of some unbearable majesty, and it's got that rhythm right between "so slow it's ironic" and "ordinary clapping speed" where "genuine awe" resides.

But you guys! Have you never seen Citizen Kane? He is clapping slowly and deliberately because no one else is. The performance he just sat through was awful. And not just awful: personally embarrassing to him. He's made this insane egotistical leap from "I quite like my new wife's singing" to "she should be the lead in professional opera productions" and has bullied everyone else (including her!) into making this idle whim a reality. And when he finally sees the full production backing up her reedy, weak little voice, it suddenly hits him the magnitude of it, how terrible she is and how many people can see she is terrible and how terribly stupid that makes him look.

And in the moment of the gif, he's like, "Well, I used sheer force of will to bully reality into accepting her as a grand diva. I guess the only thing for it is to likewise bully this entire audience into accepting her as a magnificent performer. I shall, like kings of old, signal my approval and therefore THEIR approval loudly, deliberately, so that none can mistake that they have just witnessed grandeur, despite the evidence of their own senses."

Only even as he's doing it, the crowd's reaction is just as timid as her solo. Because he didn't get her on stage through force of will; he got her on stage with money and connections and power. And this deliberate clapping is just overextending him more, showing the weakness of his will and exposing him to even more ridicule. He's remaining stoic not in the face of beauty, but in the face of hideous shame. This moment, this performance, and even his own applause is such a source of embarrassment and disgust that he becomes a hermit to escape it.

Remember?

But on the internet, giffed, the Orson Welles slow clap has been resurrected with the exact opposite of its original intent. "Here's a cool dude clapping slowly," says internet. "I am sincerely impressed by what you just did." Even Lev Kuleshov would be amazed. And it's not as though you can use the gif ironically, as some sort of hateclap. Look at Welles' eyes. That glare will incinerate irony like tissue paper. Pretty much all you can do is put one more slow clap on the pile: an animated ode to the weirdness of internet remix culture.

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The Kuleshov Effect, as demonstrated by Michel Hazavanicius (The Artist).

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The Kuleshov effect walked, so The Mandalorian's helmet reaction shots could run

[triflesandparsnips]

L'EFFET KULESHOV (THE KULESHOV EFFECT)

(omg this is the best thing I have seen in the history of forever)

[thelonelyraven]

The demon Crowley, as an impressive and somewhat gothic vampire hunter

And the… angel? Aziraphale? … huh

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On my film midterms

Khurkov Klushkov Krushev Krushov Kushlov Kushmux Kerneshov Coolage*

Konistokzi Kyonaskatsi Katsakeeyani Koyianacatsei Conaniscotse**

*various students' attempts to spell Kuleshov. **various students' attempts to spell Koyaanisqatsi.

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The Kuleshov effect featuring the expressionless face of Ivan Mosjoukine.

The way these shots are placed makes/implies different emotions.

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The Kuleshov Effect- Individual shots have no meaning. They gain meaning when they are put with other shots.

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omg thank u for introducing me to the term kuleshov effect, that is my favorite aspect of fan edits it makes me go insane

it's so fucking cool, i was actually gonna make a video essay for a final project (before i realized that i don't know how to use a video editor + other problems befouled me) comparing two movies illustrating the connections and the contrasts i was making using the kuleshov effect, which would have pretty much just straightup been an amv using songs from one of the movies.

it's part of why a good gifset is one of my favorite kinds of fandom meta - clips from x episode paired with clips from y later episode, etc - like !!!!! you're making a connection and holding it up for me to look at directly so i can then make that connection myself purely through the juxtaposition!!!!!!!! that's so cool!!!!!!!!

like, look at this

you see what i'm saying??? the meaning comes from the interraction of the paired gifs/lines

or this one

which does like, angle or lighting comparison in addition to the contrast in emotion - shot comparison! match shots! et cetera!

like, the meaning here isn't coming from the caption, i don't see that until later, it's coming from seeing these visuals & dialogue juxtaposed and interpreting something from the decision to pair them. that's video essay

but like to get back to videos and amvs and the kuleshov effect and soviet montage in general - look at this supernatural amv. i've never seen supernatural but this is one of my favorite songs by the mountain goats, and there are lines in it that were put in a completely new perspective for me by watching this amv and seeing what shots the editor put under which lines

soviet montage is a style that developed pretty much in direct response to western/hollywood continuity editing, and specifically in response to the film birth of a nation, which was interesting to the soviet filmmakers in the way that they saw the style of filmmaking aided the film in selling the story of the KKK to the american audience

continuity editing stylistically wants to be noticed as little as possible, and guide you along the viewing of the movie, blurring the lines between your reality and the reality of the film (the idea of the suspension of disbelief) through things that mimic the real life experience of moving throug the world - shot-to-shot things like showing the exterior of the building and then the interior, keeping the camera within the same 180 degrees in a single scene so the people you're filming aren't suddenly on different sides of the camera (the viewer); and scene-to-scene things like having events occur chronologically (and if not, having a clear indication of flashback or flash forward as per filmmaking convention)

the soviet filmmakers saw this as like, some capitalist propaganda bullshit because it encouraged you to take in these ideas without necessarily thinking or critically examining them, and so it was very easy to make the KKK the heroes by just building a triumphant narrative around them, and how that narrative is shown to the viewer depends on how it's edited

and so montage editing, which is rising out of the same school of filmmaking as the kuleshov effect, is in direct response to that, to try and find a style of editing that makes the viewer pay attention to the techniques and to the fact that they're watching a film, keeps their brain engaged, and has them draw their own conclusions from what they're shown rather than being gently handed the conclusions by the film. so it's a style that is built on inviting thought and critique, and therefore a pretty natural style for expressing audiovisual critique and analysis

(amvs also have their roots in this style bc soviet filmmakers were often working with recutting american films rather than filming their own due to lack of funds for purchasing film. which is pretty cool)

if you wanna check out a cool classic example of soviet montage editing, vertov's man with a movie camera (1hr) is really fun, kind of a "day in the life" but also a display of different effects you can get by using a film camera in different ways, bit of stop motion, etc

(vertov is also a really interesting, he coined the idea of kino-eye, which is about the way that the camera looks at the world and how that's different from how a human eye looks at the world, and also, the way the world reacts or changes in response to being looked at by the camera. which is Pretty Relevant Right Now I'd Say! glares at tiktok. glares at surveilence state. anyway you might wanna check that out too it's a bit tangental to the topic but still relevant in terms of the idea of film as unique medium which can be used to express ideas differently than the written word)

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Alfred Hitchcock discusses the Kuleshov Effect.

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kuleshow effect

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Watched in my Cinema class today

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