Back to the Basics

So in order to amp it up, as they may say some place some where, I decided to go back to the readings and redefine some words.

Dissolve- The transition between two sequences or scenes. 1st image disappears gradually and is replaced by another. 

Eyeline matching- a term used to lint to the continuity editing process. Based on the belief that when a character looks off screen and you then see what he or she is looking at.

Shot/reverse shot- two alternating shots. As if two people are talking. You see one then the other. 

Center-cinema- experimental. Questions and subverts existing cinematic codes and conditions. Very discontinuous. 

So how are these used in the avant-guard films?

Well often time we would see eyeliner matching as more of a transition. In the movie I analyzed Ross Hobart, she would look out into the distance and walk off screen and it would transition to her being outside. 

Shot reversal is used in avant-guard film often. One example of it being used in Rose Hobart, she is appearing to be having a conversation with herself. 

Dissolve would be better explained by 49 seconds, where the scenes seem to overlap because of the use of overlapping film.

Counter cinema could be explained by avant guard in general. Each movie is cut and pieced together in an unconventional way, it is difficult to make sense of it or keep things in order because the story is completely remade.