Battleship Potemkin editing

This scene from Battleship Potemkin epitomises the cruelty of the whole part of the film. The solider are in positions of power obviously with guns but also on height levels on the top of the steps. Though its the editing we are focusing on showing the horror , soldiers stepping over bodies without thought then switches to a mother carrying a child up steps among bodies. Most of the shots are from a top down position so it sets up the audience as a sort of witness to these events , detaching connections to specific characters and focusing more on the whole thing.

this is the exception to the high angle shots in this scene. This was done to not only show the scene from this woman's perspective but to show the hopelessness of her cause with a line of soldiers ahead and bodies to either side.

This was edited to show just the legs and body to dehumanise the soldiers further and make the audience focus on the actions of the soldiers more and suspend the idea that they are as human as everyone else

this frame and the two before were one long shot panning with the woman walking a very long cut. This I would say was done in editing to emphasise her not only hopeless situation but still how the woman is still determined enough to get help for the child that she will walk right up to the soldiers.

this scene with the crowd is juxtaposed into the rest of the scene to show how scared everyone is, how bad its got and still this one woman is trying to get help from these soldiers.