In cinema studies we spoke of something that really grasped by attention, our discussions this week were focused on editing and how it impacts on the narrative and the meaning taken from it. We looked at how the power of editing where to take one shot with another shot and create a third meaning.
Kuleshovs theory believes that cinema juxtaposes editing, the Kuleshov experiment as a video was shown to audiences who believed each expression changed throughout the sequence depending on what was being seen. This experiment was designed by Kuleshov to showcase the importance of editing within cinema, and to highlight how this effects the audience.
The experiment as linked below basically shows a shot edited video of a mans face showing expression, a shot of a soup bowel, a shot of a woman crying over a coffin and a shot of a child embracing a teddybear. The interesting thing that was noted in this experiment was how people reacted to it, when the mans expression was paired and cut next to the soup people assumed he was hungry and longing for soup, for the woman the mans expression appeared distressed and concerning and for the child the expression appeared to be content and admiring. However each shot of the man was the same which shows how context and editing can change the meaning of a shot.
Here is the video linking to the original version (not the one spoken about above, but the same concept) , since then there have been a few recreations which all show the same thing.