Liam ward popped into our lecture to give a quick interesting overview of the power of editing. A couple of things he talked about really caught my attention…the graphic match he showed us from 2001: A space odyssey absolutely blew my mind. I had seen the movie before but never really noticed the significance of the the cut from the bone gliding through the air to some kind of satellite weapon floating in space… implying that the discovery of the bone as a weapon inaugurated human evolution, hence the much more advanced orbiting weapon millions of years later.

Liam then gave us a great example of the Kuloshov effect. Lev Kuleshov, a Soviet filmmaker, was among the first to dissect the effects of juxtaposition. He discovered that depending on how shots are assembled the audience will attach a specific meaning or emotion to it. Liam then switched between two slides… one of the evil king Joffrey from Game of Thrones and the other of Christopher Pyne, the Minister for Education who continues to propose the deregulation of universities…In other words one is an unemotional, ego-centric person who sits on his throne and undermines democracy and the other ones a king.