The Kuleshov Effect is a film editing technique that Lev Kuleshov used in the 1900s. He created the montage effect. He discovered that pairing an image with another image causes different reactions within the viewers. An example was in the youtube video L'EFFET KULESHOV. This video showed an image of a man with no facial expression. When viewed by itself there was no significant reaction from the viewer. When paired with an image of food, viewers thought he was hungry, with a dead woman, viewers thought he was grieving, and so on. Kuleshov basically discovered that mashing images together can create all sorts of contrast and different reactions.
The youtube video was the most interesting to me. I enjoyed the creativity of the makers of the video by reenacting the Kuleshov effect. I think that reading and watching these videos is a cool way to get us ready for our montage project. It really helped me get ideas of what feelings I want to provoke in my audience. The idea of this montage type of film editing really opened up the film industry to a whole different type of film. I think that learning about where it came from was important to understand this assignment.
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