Man With A Movie Camera: Scene Analysis

Sped-Up with train -> celebrating what they can do with film & the constructive movement using fast motion. Revolutionary in this. This particular sequence is fast motion -> symbolises rapid production that occurred in Russia at this time. Made trams look faster, shows technology in a better light, influenced by the Italian futurism movement
Entirely filmed on location & natural lighting, gives it an extra documentary dimension, accurate representation of reality at the time
Contrast between realism of the shot & a documentary film but its been edited and speeded up shots, excessive & abstract
Symmetry of the shot adds aesthetic

Dutch angle shot shows chaos. Split screen with canted angle gives it a sense of fluidity with constant movement
City symphony shot on location -> dynamism and fluidity to it

Brechtian distanciation
Split screen -> engineered process

Celebrating beginning of film with Lumiere brothers of train going in and out

Kuleshov Effect -> Evolution of transport. People walking, then horses, then cars, then trains -> constructivism

Music creates illusion that its played with fast motion (don't delve too deeply, maybe not at all into sound)

People trying to cover their faces -> adds a sense of authenticity to the film but at the same time it makes you aware that its a construction -> shows the effect of having a camera present in society

Eadweard Muybridge -> photos of horses

Still pictures celebrate the individual but in a bigger framework -> this city exists as its made up of many individualß -> individuals are part of a greater society
Extreme long shot of the city -> moves away from close up to celebrate the whole place

How the city functions in a day

Fetishisation of the apparatus of film -> obsessively devoted to an object -> example: the woman editing -> deconstruct in order to construct

Reverse shot -> advancement of technology abilities, showing different angles & perspectives

Two close ups of film than to the woman -> a pattern -> deconstructing/reconstructing

Time code and scene	Techniques used	Motifs	Meaning – include context, constructivism, modernism
19:20-23:50	Split screen Fast motion Freeze frames Hand held camera Slow motion	Trains Cars Film Horses Camera/Cameraman Train tracks	Split screen 19.38 – of same location in different times, almost prolepsis (flash Freeze frames celebrate the constructive movement by breaking down and showing how film is made and celebrating it Being communist propaganda showing a wide range of people shows that they are equal with each other. The film shows that everyone in the community is involved The use of film techniques (such as split screen) were modern to the film form –  expressionism Constructive movement mirrors how film was made; a celebration of film showing what film is capable of doing