映像編集が映像の意味に及ぼす効果に関する心理学的研究――「クレショフ効果」を検証する試み――

抄録

The Kuleshov effect is well-known. However, there is no plausible account of the existence of this effect and only a few attempts have been made to study it in terms of psychology.

The purpose of this paper is to examine the Kuleshov effect from a psychological point of view. The effect of serial presentation of two shots on the perception of motion picture segments was investigated. Sixty observers, thirty males and thirty females, ranging in age from 18 to 29 years of age, took part in the experiment. Stimuli consisted of six different shots, three of which were shots of human faces (2000 ms) and three were object shots (7834 ms). These shots were cut from six movie works. These two kinds of shots were presented in the order of object-human face. Observers were asked to rate these motion picture segments on 30 seven-point semantic scales and to answer a question about the story of the motion picture segments.

The results imply that the Kuleshov effect exists on the segments, but no proof was found that it is a phenomenon of perception. It is necessary to investigate the effect under more conditions. In future studies we hope to unveil the factors that provide this effect.