Me, Emma and Jake attempted to recreate this effect within the school premises as it would be important to understand the effect of cutaways to maximum capacity to prepare us ultimately for our AS Thriller Piece.
Lev Kuleshov was a Soviet Filmmaker who was originally involved with the dissection of the basics of filmmaking, he researched the dissection of film for juxtaposition and in consequence revolutionised the assembly of film.
"In a 1964 interview for the show Telescope, Alfred Hitchcock called this technique “pure cinematics – the assembly of film.” Sir Hitchcock says that if a close-up of a man smiling is cut with a shot of a woman playing with a baby, the man is portrayed as “kindly” and “sympathetic.” By the same token, if the same shot of the smiling man is cut with a girl in a bikini, the man is portrayed as “dirty.”" - Elements of Cinema
