Task 4 - Montage

Montage

There are three types of Montage; these are;

- French film

- Soviet film making of the 1920's

- Hollywood cinema

The french film meaning of Montage is to assemble, and it is used to talk about simply editing.

The Soviet film making of the 1920's method of Juxtaposing shots to create meaning that did not exist in either shot alone.

Hollywood cinema meaning is a sequence, a short segment in a film in which narrative information is presented in a condensed fashion. For example; Rocky Balboa.

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Lev Kuleshov was among the very first to theorise about the relatively young medium of the cinema in the 1920's. He argued that editing a film was like constructing a building. Brick by brick (shot by shot), a building (film) is erected. He did an experiment to prove his point. he took an old film clip of a headshot of a Russian actor and inter-cut the shot with different images. Audiences praised him for his film. When he showed the film, the audience was able to make meaning in what they were looking at. The audience inferred the meaning from looking at two shots. 

Sergei Eisenstein was briefly a student of Kuleshov's. The two of them parted ways because they had different ideas. By contrasting unrelated shots, Eisenstein tried to provoke associations in the viewer, which were induced by shocks. Workers were treated like animals, as if they are worthless.

In Hollywood cinema, a 'montage sequence' is a short segment in a film in which narrative information is presented in a film condensed fashion, for example; Rocky Balboa.

This is our Soviet montage video. The meaning we tried to give out for this film was the boy being related to the two girls dying at the end of the video. The video also had a flashback, this part was when it kept switching from the boy to the two girls being dead. At first, there is two girls sitting down talking and messing about, then you see the boy taking things out of his bag and planning something. This is when you see the slight connection between the two. At the end of the film, you see the boy wiping the scissors because there is blood on them. You also see a shot of the scissors on the table.



This is our Hollywood montage video. The video was about the average school day. We squeezed a whole day into a very short video. This video went from them walking in the school gates, to form, then lesson 1,2, then break, lesson 3,4, then lunch, lesson 5,6, then walking out of school at the end of the day. This video shows how they had fun in Science, but were bored in the other classes. This video was all squeezed into one, and it was short, quick clips in one video.