Wednesday 30 September 2020

Creative Filmmaking Notes - Split Screen

Micheal Gondry - He made music videos for Bjork, White Stripes, Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, Radiohead. His music videos are known for surreal manipulation of mise-en-scene.

An example of Split Screen in movies would be 'The Parent Trap' or the phone call scene in 'Mean Girls'.

Split Screen is the division of the screen into simultaneous images. Usually split vertically but sometimes diagonally or multiple splits. In Split Screen, it can be used to duplicate actors or show two different locations or viewpoints.  This technique is a stylish way of editing a video however it removes a style of realism from the action.

The History of Split Screen:

Triptychs - intended to be read left to right and gives the viewers a simultaneous image of there biblical episodes.  Examples of this would be 'The Garden of Eden' and 'The Last Judgement'


Some examples which we answering questions about during lessons were; '500 Days of Summer', 'Requiem for a Dream' and 'Annie Hall - Psychiatrist'. More examples that were earlier examples of spilt screen were 'Queen of Spades' 1916 and 'Woodstock' 1970.




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