Editing through film history

In 1895 Arrival of a train at la Ciotat was released. this was one of the first films to be shown to anyone and was very simple with no editing however it had a massive impact on the audience and was classed as a horror because the audience were scared the train was going to hit them. It was a very easy film to make and we now may think it was boring because the original version didn’t have music.

1903- Life of an American firefighter. This was one of the first films to use double exposure which was used to show what was going on in his brain so that the audience can get a feeling of the characters past and see 2 images at the same time, what the character is thinking and also their reaction to it. People are now editing their films to show multiple things and also do shot-reaction shot.

1910s – Kuleshov Effect/ Effetto Kuleshov  – This video was made as part of an experiment to show that the same shot can be used in different ways to show different emotions as it is what our brain interprets it as. It shows that just by changing the first clip the second clip tells us something different. It can be called using pure cinematics.

1960 – Psycho – shower scene – When this scene was released they got told to take out the clip of the knife going into her but they wrote back to say if you watch it closely there is no clip of the knife going into her body because it didn’t happen. Cutting lots of clips together at a quick pace makes the effect that something has happened whereas in reality it hasn’t but it tricks our brains into thinking we have seen something, this is because our brain cant keep up and we let ourselves think that it is real when we are watching it.