L01 : Development of Film and Editing Styles

Development of film and editing styles

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This essay explains and analyses the various developments in film and editing styles , each producer has his or her own individual style for filming and editing and this is made clear by the thousands of movies out their that all provoke different emotions and feelings from their audience.

In order to keep your audience engaged it is essential that you try and develop on what has already been done and come up with your own unique twist on the styles that are already present.

I have researched into four of the most influential producers of film over the last 250 years , they are renowned for changing , developing and discovering new techniques that have shaped what we see on our screens today. 

Each of these producers has their own unique style but the one thing that they have in common is they all came up with something new , and that is how you succeed in any industry.

These four producers I have researched are 

The Lumiere Brothers, 

D.W.Griffith, 

Sergie Eisenstein

 David Fincher

The Lumiere Brothers

The Lumiere brothers are two french men who were born and raised in a small town call Besancon , France.

The two brothers decided that they wanted to try and create "moving images"

The two became famous when they released their first film "Arrival of a train" people all around the world were amazed by this amazing new thing that had come along , Film. 

Compared to modern day films their movie was incredibly simple , it was more or less what we would call stop motion. The transitions on the screen would have been jumpy , black and white , poor quality and the film would have been very short but all these points aside these brother are arguably the pioneers of the entire film industry.

David Llewelyn Wark

David Llewyen Wark was an American man , born in 1875.

Although David is one of the pioneers of the film industry some of his work is now consider to be incredibly controversial and in the eyes of most offensive. He created films in a time where African Americans were considered to be lower class than white people and this could be seen in his work.

David created a silent film that was narrated by words that popped up on the screen after somebody has spoken , sort of like an old fashioned subtitle.

"Birth of a nation"

Sergie Eisenstein

Sergei was a Russian film director and was the first person to come up with the montage technique , this technique is still used in film today often when the protagonist goes on a journey and the director wants it to take up less time on the screen.

This video from the comedy film "Team America" explains montages perfectly.

David Fincher

Was one of the first people to realize how important it is to have the correct lighting in your shots and people inteprit things differently depending on if they are light of dark, for example nighttime can be used to make people think of scary things where as in the daytime your not really thinking of that sort of thing.

David Fincher was the director of such films as Sleven , Fight Club and The Game which are all action and crime films , lighting is now something that all good film makers take in to consideration that they are recording their productions.