the history and devolopments of post production

To begin with filmmakers would just photograph of anything that would interest them or interest other, with using any editing techniques at all. The first documented film that had cutting edge editing included was "life of an American fireman" filmed by Edwin Porter. In this film they included a cross cutting edit that showed two seperate events, that were linked, happening simultaneously over a period of time. Editing from then onwards was used in films to help portray a story whilst keeping the audience interested.

Lev Kuleshov and his "kuleshov experiment" theorised that by editing a film in a certain way, you can get the audience to discover or predict their own meanings. He did this by linking a man with a blank expression and a bowl of soup and that created the thought of wanting the soup but when the soup is replaced with a greiving mother and coffin it shows that he may be greiving to. Filmakers later on would then use editing techniques in soviet films or propaganda films to help prevoke a response. For example, the film "Oktober" where the film maker shows the whole story but in such a biased way, that it would prevoke the respected audience into fighting for the cause/rebellion.

D.W.Griffiths near enough during this time of soviet montage editing wanted to make the edits invisible to the audience eye to make the edits "seemless". whilst soviet montage would make edits very visible, to deliberately gain the audience attention and response.