Analysis in 9 minutes, Set and Shot Design

This is an analysis about the image that you see up there. That is from Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994), the scene in which Vincent Vega (Travolta) and Mia Wallace (Thurman) dance to the "Jack Rabbit Slims Twist Contest".

Regarding the visual of this still, it is clear the use of light and basic colours to create a twisty jazzy mood. The camera focus is based in the main characters in the front and the rest is blurry, mainly because of the lighting which makes the aperture to be much bigger due to the poor lighting causing the blurry background.

The clothes chosen for this scene communicate an important part of the personalities of the characters, which are both very classic and formal but seductive at the same time.

The space in which the scene is set is a Retro Bar in Los Angeles, which is at least confusing as there is not such a thing as a clear time space correlation. All though the movie is set in the 90s, the character's clothes are universal and, for example, Vincent drives a Impala (or Bel Air).....

To Be continued

Soviet Montage Theory

Soviet montage theory is an approach to understanding and creating cinema that relies heavily upon editing. Although Soviet filmmakers in the 1920s disagreed about how exactly to view montage, Sergei Eisenstein marked a note of accord in "A Dialectic Approach to Film Form" when he noted that montage is "the nerve of cinema," and that "to determine the nature of montage is to solve the specific problem of cinema."

While many Soviet filmmakers, such as Lev Kuleshov, Dziga Vertov, and Vsevolod Pudovkin put forth explanations of what constitutes the montage effect, Eisenstein's view that "montage is an idea that arises from the collision of independent shots" wherein "each sequential element is perceived not next to the other, but on top of the other" has become most widely accepted.