COLLECTION NAME:
Graduate Thesis Collection
Record
Title:
Storytelling in Experimental Found Footage Films: How Editing Creates Meaning
Creator:
Acharya, Rutuj
Subject:
Thesis (M.F.A.) -- Film and Television
Subject:
Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Film and Television
Rights:
Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Abstract:
"This thesis analyzes how film editing helps communicate evocative, ingenious, and surreal concepts in found footage and experimental films. The paper investigates the works of found footage filmmakers such as Bruce Conner, Joseph Cornell, Arthur Lipsett, and famous American Avant-Grade filmmaker Maya Deren. Since found footage filmmakers do not have control over performance, production design, and, most importantly, the entirety of a shot, it is more challenging for them to keep their audiences engaged than mainstream narrative filmmakers. Film editing is the art form that comes to play in overcoming these seemingly creative restrictions. Found footage filmmakers have experimented with editing techniques such as the Kuleshov effect, speed controls, reverse or forward speed, time remapping, double exposure, and more. These experiments have led to a unique cinematic language for experimental cinema. With the constant growth in technology and adaptations of experimental editing techniques into mainstream narrative films, it is conspicuous to observe and predict what new experiments will be in found footage films and who will be their primary audiences." --Abstract
Keywords: found footage, Kuleshov effect, montage, avant-garde, experimental storytelling
Keywords: found footage, Kuleshov effect, montage, avant-garde, experimental storytelling
Publisher:
Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design
Date:
2023-03
Format:
2 online resources: 1 PDF (Thesis, 31 pages, illustrations) + 1 mp4 film (Studio component, approximately 6 min., color, sound)