Research - The Kuleshov Effect

The Kuleshov effect was discovered by Lev Kuleshov who was a Soviet filmmaker.

This is one of the techniques discovered through juxtaposition. His experiments and research led to him finding out that depending on how a certain shot is taken; the audience are able to attach a specific meaning or emotion to it. So in a way, it's what the audience stereotypes the actions to be.

To test his theory of how the audience viewing psychology; he carried out an experiment which used a picture of a man whose expressionless, a girl in a coffin, a bowl of soup and a pretty woman on the coach. The results of the experiment said that the audience saw the man being sad (picture with the girl in the coffin), the man was hungry (picture with the bowl of soup) and the man was lustful (picture with the pretty woman on the coach).

Even though the man showed no expression in the scene before each picture; the audience was still able to come up with a different emotion for each of the different 2-sequence footage.

Our group can apply this effect onto our trailer through the use of a hidden priest followed by a shot of the weapon. The audience will be able to tell that the person is a killer straightaway with the link of the two scenes. Another way this effect can be applied to our trailer is with a shot of the detective walking over to an area then another scene of a close-up of the hand of her picking up the piece of evidence. Straightaway, the audience will think that she's the jealous type or she's the convict possibly (the guilty party) with these 2-shots.

Film Intro drafts

Down below are the links to film intros we have been working on. It involves our company name "Hyde Productions" and "Universal" as universal own a separate distribution company that distributes horror films and our film is a hybrid of horror/slasher and dystopian future

There is also the distortion intro which we decided to use in the beginning of our trailer which was inspired from 'The Purge Trailer'. We decide to do this with the date and social media links as well combined with a glitch noise to create a better effect and add to the idea of chaos and disruption.

The great thing about this is that  we got input from a variety of different people who were able to tell us what was good and bad and eventually we ended up with the distortion effect rather than using video loops like before which makes it ook more proessional





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In the end we went with this last one because it works well in showcasing our genre. The distortion effect is used effectively in 'The Purge' to present the same idea. It stands out as well and looks more professional than the others.

Vlog 8

Here we were filming a short clip of a scene to be used in the montage.

Vlog 7

This Vlog is of the scene where a victim is abused to death. This is to help indicate the stalker/slasher scenes with more emphasis with the actual iconography of blood and characterisation. This shows several ways and shots of showing this genre.

Vlog 6

This is a quick vlog on the staircase scene of both detectives, this would be the scene to help intensify both partners at their work with the case they both have.

Vlog 5

This is a Vlog for the news report and the interview with the "Priest". This is the significant link towards religion with the dystopian future aspect and his opinion with the murders.

Vlog 4

Another Vlog in the church, attempting several different shots of the priest.