Film Studies: An Introduction By Ed Sikov

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Editing plays a crucial role in the for and meaning of any feature film. In the “Film Studies: An Introduction” by Ed Sikov, the book touches on the many forms of editing and how that effects the meaning of a film. For instance, the book uses the Kuleshov Experiment to illustrate how editing can drastically change the viewer's’ perspective; each piece in this experiment show the same shot of a man face, followed by a different image each time. This experiment gave the audience a varied understanding of the man’s emotions depending on the shot that followed, despite the shot being the same each. This demonstrated not only how editing can manipulate the brain into feeling numerous emotions, but also emphasized the need for intention of how a