Kuleshov Experiment

Lev Kuleshov was a Soviet filmmaker in the 1910s to the 1920s and he established a film editing effect called the ‘Kuleshov Experiment’. He showed how the audience gain more understanding from two continuous shots than just a single shot. The audience can watch the sequence of images and form their own opinion based on how the second shot reacts with the previous shot.

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 The experiment was also studied by Alfred Hitchcock a filmmaker who adapted the effect with his own clips to show how the audience will view a person (the clip of the actor stays exactly the same) differently when different shots are added to change the overall message.

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In a group we created are own version of the Kuleshov experiment by taking a clip of a female teacher saying “yummy” and placing different clips before it. The first clip is of a platter of cookies with an over voice asking “If this could be described in one word. What would it be?” then the clip of the teacher is shown. This repeats but with a young male student and also a teacher. This shows how the audience’s reaction of the female teacher changes from her supposed reaction to the  additional clips. 

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