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The Kuleshov effect


The kuleshov effect is a term that was discovered by Lev Kuleshov, a soviet filmmaker, in the 1910's and the 1920's, he was one of the first to analyse the effects of juxtaposition.

For example, when Kuleshov experimented with the kuleshov effect, he aligned a shot of an actor holding a blank facial expression and then paired that shot with another shot, these shots determined what the audience would think about the actor. for the first clip, Kuleshov paired the shot of the actor with a shot of a girl in a coffin, this affected what emotions represented by the actor and instead of seeming emotionless, the actor seemed saddened. Kuleshov did this a second time, using the same shot of the actor but this time a different shot. This time he used a shot of some food which made the actor seem hungry. The third time he did this he used a shot of an attractive lady which made the actor seem lustful.

Kuleshov discovered that this effect demonstrates how when certain shots are aligned the audience will take a different meaning from each clip. This effect is now considered very important in the study of film in the present day and has since been analysed by some very famous filmmakers like Albert Hitchcock.



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