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Man with a Movie Camera

Man with a Movie Camera Directed by Dziga Vertov. (1929)

Man with a Movie Camera (1929), directed by Dziga Vertov, is a unique film, Which it addressed a day of progress in the city Moscow in Russia. The main focus of the film is to depict reality, unlike usual, it has no typical protagonist, conventional plot, title card, language, cultural barriers, actors, and storylines.

A variety of interesting camera angles and editing techniques are used throughout the process to demonstrate the functions and methods of film development and exploration at that time. 

The film showcases various techniques currently in use, from double exposure, fast and slow motion, frozen frames, jump cuts, split screens, close-up, and stop-motion animation.

One crucial part of the movie is the accompaniment. With playing a combination of bells and xylophone while displaying the industrial parts of the city gives a contrast between fast produced industrial town and the gentle music.
The theme of my film is to expose the different lifestyles of different classes of people,  influenced by the film, I used close up shot, color fading, zooming in and out, quick cuts, fast action and music analysis, comparing the difference of life style between the upper class, the lower class and the workers, the traffic light is a symbol of the beginning and end of a day, showing the effect of end to end. At the beginning of my film, I captured the scenery of different places at different times and illustrate though music and visual atmosphere in different places to the audience, allowing the audience to immerse themselves in the film and feel the life attitude of people of different classes which challenges their perspective about the external worlds.
Fast motion: Train passes over from the movie
Fast motion: Birds shadow fly over- taking by my self
 Split screens:
Close up shot: Musical instruments in the movie 
Close up shot: focus point on the button, leading lines going upwards
An essential aspect of this movie is in the ways scenes progress and the types of montage employed with using serial editing and collision editing

Serial editing is a way of compressing time, just showing the essential things that happen in sequence to quickly show progress and continue the story.
I speed up few of the scenes as will for increasing the speed and fit the music.
The film explores this editing by speed up the music and quick cuts of the camera shot switches between the scenes to produce new and changing sounds. 

Film theorist 'Sergei Eisenstein views montage as a collision, where the collision of two factors gives rise to an idea' (Eisenstein, p.19).

Collision is the clash of two somewhat similar and to varying degrees things to enhance information and trigger ideas in the audience.

There are some examples of collision editing utilized in this movie. 
The girls washing her face cuts to high pressure water cleaning off a pole.
These two things correspond in that they both include water and cleaning but in different ways.

where in my film I did this with using the man walking pass by to the right and continues with the left scenes a women walking out.
Themes

The differences between the working class and certain upper-class people implicitly shown in several scenes.
Contrast
The contrast between the works sleeping place compares to the girl.
I addressed different life experience between up class, temperament, freelancer, singer and musician.
Visual Analysis
Leading lines: towards the door way
Golden triangle: the structure of the fountain 
Music fade out: slowly bring the emotion out and slide to another music, connection with other music pieces.
End of the movie
Zoom in: camera shot zoom in/ scenes zoom in. 
Zoom out: scenes zoom out to larger space
Color Fade: a scenes fads out to cut to an other  
Quick cuts: quick cuts between scenes
Sudden cuts with the music: I choose two times period of immediate cut to the performance music to gives a contrast in the music illustrate to the audience a collision and fusion in different music style and musical instruments comparative.
Music:

The Brandenburg Concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach are a collection of six instrumental works presented by Bach to Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt in 1721.

They are widely regarded as some of the best orchestral compositions of the Baroque era.
Included Muscial instruments:
Adagio in E minor
Allegro
Instrumentation: three violins, three violas, three cellos, and basso continuo (including harpsichord)
Oboes 
Horns

The Concerto No. 3 in G major may have been written while Bach was at Weimar, is reminiscent of the Italian concerto, a genre with which Bach was fascinated at the time. The motoric rhythm, clear melodic outline, and motivic construction. (All music, 1871)

The two main parts of the work, including G major are separated by a short Adagio, which can be achieved as a short violin flourish. The concerto was written for three violins, three violas, and three cellos, with bass and continuity. The relationship between the instruments is subjective to the listener; As the position of the parts fluctuates, there seems to be no soloist, the players are all soloists, or the violins, violas and cellos occupy their own solo groups.
Reference List:
All Music 1871, Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048, All Music, viewed 20 July 2019, <https://www.allmusic.com/composition/brandenburg-concerto-no-3-in-g-major-bwv-1048-mc0002384428>.

Iconauta 2012, Dziga Vertov: Man with a Movie Camera (1929), Film and animation, 12 July 2019, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzxrSX79oz4>.

Israel, M. 2014, A Medium Corporation, A Man With A Movie Camera Analysis, A Medium Corporation, viewed 22 July 2019, <https://medium.com/@mcgavinvsisrael/a-man-with-a-movie-camera-analysis-e502c27782f1>.

Sebastian, J 1721, 'Bach: Brandenburg Concerto' No. 3 in G Major (1st movement) 

Sergei, E. 1998, 'The Eisenstein Reader', 1929: Beyond the Shot, Ed. Taylor, R,  London, p. 19.


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