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The Lumiere Brothers

Auguste and Louis lumiere where sons of the well known portrait painter Antione lumiere. They where both very talented in science based subjects in school, later on they started a business making and selling photographic equipment. when the brother where experimenting louis discovered a way in which they can develop photography it was called the dry plate process in the year 1881 and at this time he was only 17 years of age.
In the year 1895 The two brothers created the Cinématographe which was a camera, printer and projector, this was the first demonstrated at a scientific meeting.
With this creating the first movie screening in
the grand cafe in paris which was a long continuous shot of workers leaving the lumiere factory, which to us seems quick simple and boring but in that day it seemed as if it was magic.

Georges Melies

In the audience of the first screening of 'workers leaving the Lumiere factory'  George Melies well known for his magic and illusions in theater he saw much potential in the development of film. so he tried to by a Cinématographe but was refused by the Lumieres, so he then bought an English projector called the Animatograph and created his own camera.
After some months of him creating the Animatograph Georges started making films as part of his stage shows. in the year 1896 melies was out filming a car when his camera jammed and when it started working again the car was replaced with a hearse and when he played it back it seems as if the car disappeared and was switched with the hearse within a blink thus creating the 'Jump cut' which he went on to use in his films creating disappearing and appearing acts.

Edwin S. Porter

Edwin Stanton Porter was a film pioneer, most famous as a director, studio manager and cinematographer with the Edison Manufacturing Company. in the year 1895 porter joined the Vitascope marketing company whilst he was there porter was central in the organisation of the first projected movie show in new york on 23rd April 1896. after he continued to use his engineering skills in the laboratory at Edison's. after a while porter ended up leaving and became freelance working with the eden musee theatre in 1898.
in 1901 porter became the head and go to camera man at skylight studios in new york after some time being inspired by melies film trip to the moon porter had a go at making his own film called life of an American fireman which used fused both stock and actual footage to make a scene which was very smart because the juxtaposition added tension and release to the film making it very dramatic. porter also used a technique called called a temporal overlaps which show action happening at to different angles but not in real time it is almost like a relay but from a different angle.

D.W. Griffith

 D.W Griffith was a film actor, theater actor and director he worked as a play writer writing many plays due to his love for english lit. Griffith came to see that no one was really using his plays so after an idea from a friend he started writing scenarios for films and even sent one to Edwin S. Porter but he rejected it. so he went on to creating his own films making a name for himself with the film birth of a nation which changed the way films where made because that was when things like close up came about and the creation of continuity editing also creating the 180 degree rule, he used the close ups to show facial expressions oh a character but after a while Griffiths found it hard to get employment after the second world war because of his rascal views.

 

Lev Kuleshov

kuleshov was a russian and soviet filmmaker, one of the founders of the worlds first film school, the moscow film school. kuleshov created a technique called the kuleshov effect which usses the effect of juxtaposition.through his reseach he found out that depending on how shots are assembled the audience will attach a specific meaning or emotion to it. In his experiment, Kuleshov cut an actor with shots of three different subjects: a hot plate of soup, a girl in a coffin, and a pretty woman lying in a couch. The footage of the actor was the same expressionless gaze. Yet the audience raved his performance, saying first he looked hungry, then sad, then lustful. thus creating the kuleshov effect.

Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock was born in London. He first worked in engineering before entering the film industry in 1920. Hitchcock was known as an Auteur as of the way he edited his film and how he broke continuity. Alfred Hitchcock made a film called psycho in 1960. this film deliberately broke the rules of continuity. he used different shot types that created a sense of suspense after a career of doing this he was named the master of suspense.The film Psycho, the Shower scene was very interesting as Hitchcock applied 3 of the 5 montage tecniques. they were called Metric,rhythmic and intellectual montage. 

Sergei Eisenstein

Eisenstein was a student of Kuleshov. He developed a idea in which shots can be made into a sequence through intellectual theory and he also discovered how the shots can be put together for the soul purpose of manipulating speed and time. thus creating montage which was in completion with continuity.