Cinematic Principle & IdeogramESSAY 3

SERGEI EISENSTEIN

Cinematography

• The art or science of motion picture photography

• Film directors visual collaborator

• Japanese cinema had traits of montages that were never realized

• Hieroglyph to be used as cinematography for writing and the first contingent forms were the chinese by Ts’ang Chieh

Ryan Wariki

Chinese Cinematography

• Fourteen different styles of handwriting in hieroglyph which then crystallize in it’s present form

• Ancient Chinese Bronzes were formed and created 607 symbols of hsiang cheng remains

• Copulation (combination) of two hieroglyphs series to be known as a product and thus ideogram was formed by combined two depictables to represent the ideal of cinematography

Ryan Wariki

Ryan Wariki

Chinese Ideogram Commands

Dog + Mouth = To bark

Mouth + Child =To

scream

Mouth + Bird = To sing

Knife + Heart =To

sorrow

• Thus all this commands are MONTAGE!

• Abstract concept but they are

commands

Laconic Form

Laconism helps us with a transition to another point.

Japan possesses the laconic form of poetry

“Haiki”

(During the Beginning or the 13th Century)In the modern age this is known as

“Haiku” or “Hokku”

Ayiesha Williams

Haiku ( )

Haiku are short poems that use sensory language to

capture a feeling or image.

“Butterflies are cool

in the big, huge, green forest.

They fly up so high!”

Ayiesha Williams

Tanka (短歌)

Tanka poetry refers to a Japanese five line poem.

Tanka translated means “short song.”

“The weather is coolIt's clear that fall is comingThe leaves will soon change

The days will become shorterAnd then winter will fall too.’’

Ayiesha Williams

Skaraku’s Faces

Skaraku is a creator of the finest prints of the 18th Century.

He uses the same expression but these pictures are of a old priest and a young

women.

Each of his large heads:• Space between the eyes are little to mock

all the faces.• Nose is twice as long in relation to the

eyes.• Chin stands in no sort of relation to the

mouth and the brows.

Ayiesha Williams

Monstrous Disproportion

• Disproportion depiction of an event is organically natural to us.

• Monstrous disproportion of a part is normally flowing event.

• Dismember of this part usually turns into a “close up” in to a event

• Example:▫ Extreme close up of bulging eyes▫ Medium shot of the struggle▫ Close up of clutching handThese shots combined make one newly informed event into

one whole scene that a meaning now

Bianca Iferika

Monstrous Disproportion

• Everything is represented in passably accurate relationships and with great care in disproportion depiction

• Painting and sculpture are good examples

• Displacing the expressiveness of a art work like a painting or sculpture decree the harmony of the work

Bianca Iferika

Absolute Realism

• Absolute realism is by no mean the correct form of perception

• It is basically the function of certain forms of social structure

• Ideological uniformity can be developed pictorially in the ranks of colors and design of the guard regimen

Bianca Iferika

Principle of Hieroglyphics

• Principle of creating literary imagery

• Basic principle of depiction

• Lead to theater:▫ Splitting into two parts, accordance with

function of symbols

▫ This unite to dual estrangement that sphere into theater

Bianca Iferika

Ideographic

• The most important technique in acting is Ideographic (montage)

• A shot is a single piece of celluiod

• Cemented or put together these shot form montage

• Montage is not a assembly of events but the most important element of anaylsis

Bianca Iferika

Old school film making phrase

• “Screw by Screw, Brick by Brick”

• This is taught by old school filmmakers

• the analysis of the Phrase

▫ Particles of a story is linked in a whole dramatic chain

▫ Then the ideas are expressed and accumulated like a shot-cipher just like a brick

Bianca Iferika

Pudovkin and Einstein

Pudovkin

Montage as linkage of pieces

Andrew Abuan

Einstein

Montage as a collision

(Two given factors arises a concept)

Cinematographic Conflicts

• Montage is CONFLICT

• Conflict of …▫ Graphic Directions

▫ Scales

▫ Volumes

▫ Masses

▫ Depths

Andrew Abuan

Unexpected Conflicts

• Conflicts between an object and its dimension. Conflicts between an event and its duration.

• How?▫ Optically distorted lens, and the second by stop-

motion or slow-motion

Andrew Abuan

Principle of Optical Counterpoint

Conflict the sound film of acoustics and optics

between the frame of the shot and the object

Andrew Bridge

Symphonie Diagonale (1924)

Director – Viking Eggeling

Perhaps the first experimental animation film

Andrew Bridge

“direction” of a sequencevs.

“ picking-out” by the camera

Conflict between

the frame of the shot

and the object

Andrew Bridge