This week I was watching one of my go-to favourite movies – She’s all that while I was cutting and editing my material for Project Brief 2. The end scene reminded me of what we had learnt in the class, and the way you can cut out key pieces of information, or just show part of it and the audience fills in the rest with what they already know.

In the end scene ‘Zac Siller’ (Freddie Prinze Jr) graduates naked (after losing a bet). The audience is shown him sitting in line waiting for his name to be called, wearing nothing but his graduation hat and coloured shoulder throw. The audience sees where he is strategically holding his soccer ball before it cuts to the heroine of the movie ‘Laney Boggs’ (Rachael Leigh Cook). Suddenly she catches the ball and laughter is heard.

While the audience doesn’t see Zac graduate naked, we know he did. We know what the ball was covering, and what must not be covering anymore since it is now in Laney’s hands.

I found this such a good example of the Kuleshov effect, one that can be found in quite a number of movies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T43uKfi1riI