Man With The Movie Camera Shot Change Analysis
Man with The Movie Camera: Shot Change constructs a New Perspective
Avant Garde Film Midterm 11\3\95 Question #4
Time was used by Vertov as an important factor in editing as well as in the daily lives of humans. With editing he utilized the essence of time to his advantage. Vertov wanted a certain rhythm of cuts to exist in the movie. He desired a choppy effect. The cameras, themselves, were supposed to produce a rithym in movements, too. The point was he wanted to make as many cuts and rigid motions as possible to make the film appear as hark jerky as possible to the audience. One reason was that he did not at all want the continuous motion of normative movies to be present. He desired the ebb and flow which daily …show more content…
The movie showed a lot of sporting events and the fascinating concept in these activities there was a an equal proportion of women and men. Vertov showed the film with an equality of the sexes. Both the work scenes and leisure ones got longer throughout the movie. The sequences keep getting longer and this is the case with another sequence - the life cycle.
The order of the cycle is messed up with birth, marriage, and death all represented. As the progress of the day progressed the sequences generally got longer. Along with the idea of time being important, space represented a key element in Man with the Movie Camera. The director Vertov utilized the camera to view both vertical and horizontal motion. He also developed the idea of close-ups and long shots to give the audience more of a perspective on life. It was used as another method for making the experience more realistic. Space was also related to some visual themes in the film. Vertov tried to show all the little minute details of life on film. Even going back to the working motif, the camera zeroed in on the busy hands moving and working in the factory. The camera gave a view of mechanical objects which open and close
Avant Garde Film Midterm 11\3\95 Question #4
Time was used by Vertov as an important factor in editing as well as in the daily lives of humans. With editing he utilized the essence of time to his advantage. Vertov wanted a certain rhythm of cuts to exist in the movie. He desired a choppy effect. The cameras, themselves, were supposed to produce a rithym in movements, too. The point was he wanted to make as many cuts and rigid motions as possible to make the film appear as hark jerky as possible to the audience. One reason was that he did not at all want the continuous motion of normative movies to be present. He desired the ebb and flow which daily …show more content…
The movie showed a lot of sporting events and the fascinating concept in these activities there was a an equal proportion of women and men. Vertov showed the film with an equality of the sexes. Both the work scenes and leisure ones got longer throughout the movie. The sequences keep getting longer and this is the case with another sequence - the life cycle.
The order of the cycle is messed up with birth, marriage, and death all represented. As the progress of the day progressed the sequences generally got longer. Along with the idea of time being important, space represented a key element in Man with the Movie Camera. The director Vertov utilized the camera to view both vertical and horizontal motion. He also developed the idea of close-ups and long shots to give the audience more of a perspective on life. It was used as another method for making the experience more realistic. Space was also related to some visual themes in the film. Vertov tried to show all the little minute details of life on film. Even going back to the working motif, the camera zeroed in on the busy hands moving and working in the factory. The camera gave a view of mechanical objects which open and close