Kuleshov Effect

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Kuleshov Effect or How Hitchcock turned a kind gentleman to a dirty old man

Kuleshov Effect In the last Friday Fundas section I had covered one of the basic units of film grammar Reaction Shot. In this week’s Friday Fundas I am going to cover a related topic called as Kuleshov Effect. Russian filmmaker Lev Kuleshov demonstrated a very powerful editing technique in cinema during the 1920s. His experiment involved shooting 4 different shots.

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Friday Fundas: Reaction Shot

Reaction Shot In this week’s Friday Fundas we would see one of the basic units of film grammar – Reaction Shot. A Reaction shot is the one where the camera moves away from the main sequence to show the reaction of a character to the main sequence. It could be a response to a dialogue

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Friday Fundas: Use of Metaphor in Movies

Use of Metaphor in Movies Use of metaphors is very well known form or technique used in performing arts like poetry, novels, short stories, plays and motion pictures. Metaphors usually help in connecting the audience to the art very effectively. This week’s Friday Fundas takes a look at the use of metaphors in movies with

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Friday Fundas: Foreshadowing

Foreshadowing In this week’s Friday fundas we would see a popular technique used in screenwriting called foreshadowing. Foreshadowing is a technique screen writers use in the screenplay that gives a hint or clue to the audience as to how the plot would unfold. This is a very useful technique in preparing the audience for the

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Friday Funda: Parallel Cinema

Parallel Cinema Parallel Cinema is a term that refers to the film movement in India during the years 1940 to 1960 wherein new age of film makers emerged and they started to make movies which are very close to reality and not having typical Bollywood commercial entertainer which had all the song and dance. This movement was

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S.S Vasan’s Chandralekha – A Milestone in Indian Cinema

S.S Vasan’s Chandralekha – A milestone in Indian Cinema In this week’s Friday Fundas I decided to write about a movie that is considered to be the milestone of Indian Cinema. The movie name is Chandralekha which got released in the year 1948. What is so special about this movie? Well this has been the most expensive movie

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Friday Fundas: Breaking the 4th Wall

Breaking the 4th Wall 4th Wall is an imaginary wall between the stage and the audience in a theatrical play. If a room is being shown then only the set has 3 walls and the 4th wall is the one through which the audience would see the play. The idea of 4th wall was made explicit by

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Friday Fundas: Interval in Movies

Interval in Movies The recent Tamil movie Kathai Thiraikathai Vasanam Iyakkam covered many aspects of Indian Cinema and there was an interesting piece on Interval blocks in Indian Cinema. The movie mentioned in this context was a Tamil movie Namma Veetu Deivam released in 1970. The husband (Muthuraman) kills his wife (K R Vijaya) in

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Friday Fundas: Types of Shots in movies

Friday Fundas: Types of Shots in movies Based on the distance of the camera from the object the types of shots can be broadly classified into the following categories Close up / Extreme Close up Shot (CU/ECU) Medium Close up Shot (MCU) Medium Shot (MS) Medium Long Shot (MLS) Long Shot (LS) Extreme Long Shot (ELS)

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Friday Fundas: Recipe for movies to connect with Audience

Friday Fundas: Recipe for movies to connect with Audience There are numerous reasons a film script is successful. One of the factors for success is the ability of a movie to connect with the audience. The more the audience is connecting to the script the more engagement happens and eventually they like the film. Naturally

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Friday Fundas: Neo-noir films

Neo-noir films Neo noir films refer to a category of the films that have a dark theme attached to it. The word is derived from the French word noir which means black and neo in Greek means new. These are new black films. These were derived from the film noir genre which was very prevalent

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Friday Fundas: And the Oscar goes to…

Academy Awards (Oscar awards) – Academy Awards aka Oscar Awards was first presented on May 16, 1929. There were 15 categories under which the award was presented and the whole event lasted for 15 minutes. Today the Academy award has grown magnanimously and presents awards in 24 categories. It is held in the Dolby Theatre in Los

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