October (1927)

Film by: Eisenstein
Year: 1927

Mise-en-shot	Mise-en-scene
Many short shots	Artificial lighting à lots heavy shadows
Sound à background music (fast), no dialogue but has banners	Props à ropes, ladder, guns, hoes, scythe
No camera movement
Symbolic act
Soundtrack synchronized with the action
Heavily edited
First scene à looking up the statue (make it look bigger shows importance)
Not real time
Sequence goes in linear progression
Black and white
No continuity à big gap between
Montage

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