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FILM 440 UCLA Man with a Movie Camera Analytical Review

 

Watch Man with a Movie Camera (1929)(you can find this movie online,) then using Chapter 8 as a guide answer the prompts below (Max 300 words), and respond to two of your classmates.

*Be sure to use and define at least three terms from this and previous chapters. It’s important to continue building your cinematic language vocabulary over the course of the semester.

Man with a Movie Camera is an experimental 1929 silent documentary film, with no story and no actors by Soviet-Russian director Dziga Vertov, edited by his wife Elizaveta Svilova. In 2014, it was named the best documentary film of all time by Sight and Sound.

Determining the intent of a scene will help you understand how and why editing is used. Ask your- self what is the story of the scene, and how does that story contribute to the movie’s overall narrative? What mood does the scene make you experience? What meaning and information do you derive from watching the scene?

Choose a scene or sequence from the film to answer the following prompts.

1. How does time function in the sequence? Is time condensed between shots? Are transitions used to indicate or emphasize a movement through time?

2. Does the scene use point-of-view editing? If so, does the point-of-view shot convey a spatial or psychological relationship?

3. Look for the different types of match cuts in the film. What sort of visual or narrative information is each match cut conveying?

4. What else is striking in the editing of the scene/sequence?

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After you answer the question, can you sent me the work first. Then I can submit it to see other people’s discussion for you to write two responses. and response only needs to be very less about 20-60 words.