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George Mielles Lumiere brothers
History of Editing
Lev Kuleshov Eisenstein Digital editing
Edwin S Porter D.W.Griffiths
George Mielles-Mielles saw his first "Moving pictures" in 1895. He was influenced by the Lumiere brothers as they had shown the first cinematograph production in 1895, He loved it so much that he decided to make his own and on April the 4th 1896 George Mielles presented the first ever film screening, His first film was called "A trip to the moon". In 1896 he was filming when his camera jammed upon processing the film, He soon realised that he had created editing! He pioneered the first double exposure in 1898, the first split screen in 1898 and the first nude film. He abandoned film in 1912 because he was soon declared bankrupt, he was able to overcome this because his work was soon recognised by the french in the year 1920. This meant great things for Mielles as he was soon presented the award "The Legion of Honor." He was also given an apartment that was rent free for the remainding years of his life. He was known for making, directing, photographing and starring in over 500 films.
Lumiere Brothers- The Lumiere brothers otherwise known as August and Louis were very smart creators. As children they had been sent to a technical school that specialised in science. There father was known for creating photographic equipment and the boys had soon joined his venture, Louis had sent the buissiness booming when he had created a new "Dry plate" which he called "Etiquette blue" The family company had soon sold more than 15,000,000 in a year. By 1895 they had produced there own device combining a camera and a printer called the cinematographe. They had soon created the cinema from this device in 1896 and in the first four months they had cinemas in Brussels, Belgium and New york! In 1900 the brothers soon were able to project a film on a huge screen at a Paris Exposition, after this they decided to devote there time to manafacture and sell there inventions. In 1907 they had managed to produce the first practical colour photography process and also the Autochrone plate.
Edwin.S.Porter- Edwin.S.Porter was an American film maker who In 1893 he joined the Navy. Three years later became a freelance projectionist, and also became a director and cameraman for the Edison manufacturing company. He was soon the first director to shoot at night in his pan American exposition by projection, He invented the simplex camera for the Edison Company and had also developed editing and methods of projection (for example in 1897 he created the Beadnell film projector). As well as this he was also able to combine documentarys with his own films. He soon created the film "In the life of an American fireman" and also released "The great train robbery". Edison made the films to help crerate a path to show the modern concept of editing contiuity helping people like D.W.Griffiths expand editing and create new ideas within the industry along the way. Porter was the mainstay of Edison film company and left in 1909 due to taking a senior production post with a series of independent workng companys. Porter soon rejoined Edison film company 6 years later in 1915 and stayed with them for the rest of his life creating and editing films.
D.W.Griffiths- Griffiths was first known famously when he agreed to act in a new motion picture for Edwin S Porter after going out to find a career in acting and theatre writing which turned out not to be as succesfull as he wanted, Although he was soon offered a job by Edwin S porter with the Edison company and then went on to direct over 450 short films after getting a job with the American mutoscope and Biograph co which was a company that needed alot of financial help. whilst working for the compay he perfected the film "The birth of a nation" in 1915 which caused great contraversy as many people belived that this was a very racist film because D.W.Griffiths was a very racist man. Soon Griffiths had improved the world of editing by creating the flashback, Iris shot, The mask and also Cross cutting with his collegue G.W Blitzer. As succesfull as he was Griffiths film "The birth of a nation" lost the publics interest and because of this he retired in 1931.
Lev Kuleshov- Kuleshov was born in 1899 and was a russian director who created the editing technique known as the "Kuleshov effect," he was the first person to use cross cutting in soviet russia. In 1916 he filmed his career as a set designer and occasionally acted in some of his productions. He was soon a popular director and directed hundreds of films over Russia. Kuleshov was able to go to a school that specialised Art, he finished school and was hired by a Moscow filming company as there set designer. With such an interest in editing Kuleshov started to explore the techniques of how editing was created and decided to play around with editing. From this he created the "Kuleshov effect" by discovering that you have to depend on how different shots are filmed and put together for the audience to have an emotional attachment to the shot they are watching. Soon Kuleshov turned his interests into American film directors, this angered the Russian government who stopped funding his films but in an attempt to find support for the war reinstated Kuleshov and allowed him to start making films again.
Sergei Eisenstein- Sergei Eisenstein joined up a Moscow theatre as a set designer, progressing this career he soon became a director. Eisenstein was introduced to the concept of Bio-mechanics by an influential director in his life called Vsevolvd Meyerhold from this he created a "Montage of attractions" which was a variety of pictures which had an emotional effect in a sequence. Eisenstein used his montage theory in a few films that he made, he made 7 films in his life being able to demonstrate films moving past the ninteenth century. He showed that his Montage theary created an absent concept with concreate images. Eisenstein died in his flat in Moscow in 1948 after suffering from a severe heart attack. He was a man who belived that film montage could create ideas or have an impact beyond the original images, he demonstrated the power of montage in his battleship productions, he created many things during his life including the illusion of perception of time.
Digital editing is where things are edited from a computer rather than cutting long strips of images ect. Digital editing is used in more modern times films using different types of software to edit there scenes together. It effects the audience alot because using digital editing can create a completley new images for films around the world as film makers can use 3D effects and make the viewers feel like they are in the film. The youtube video below demonstrates the use of digital editing.
