Montage

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Montage is the term that is used for a film that is made up of different sequences where by they control a certain time, place and information, the first person to use montage was Eisenstein and he then introduced this to cinema. Montage often contains different effects such as fades, dissolves and split screens .etc, this was one of the first ever forms of editing. Some existing montages that have been produced are very famous, these are famous clips such as the rocky training montage and the karate kid montage. This technique is used in many different kinds of film these are,

• Soviet montage
• Hollywood montage
• French montage

Soviet montage always relied largely on editing and even though soviet filmmakers did not use editing it was then widely used after Eisenstein found this out that montage was possible to use and incorporate in film making. Montage developed soviet cinema massively as some filmmakers found that this was able to be used to create a story in there film and to make a film easier to develop even if the film was not produced in the way that the filmmaker would have imagined that it would have been. Soviet montage then began to develop other forms of cinema such as Hollywood cinema.

French film practice, 'montage' has its literal french meaning and simply identifies editing in a french term.

Hollywood montage is a sequence of shots that have been cut into short clips that looks like the film was meant to be developed throughout a longer period of time. It is important that in a hollywood montage it is shot in this certain way.



- Lev Kuleshev
- Sergei Eisenstein

Lev Kuleshev

Lev Kuleshev was one of the first film directors to come up with a montage film by putting the two different shots together, he believed that film making with like developing a building brick by brick. He also believed that building a wall is by layering brick on top of one another and making a film was by layering many different shots together. He developed an experiment to prove this theory. He used a head shot of an old Russian actress and he then put lots of different shots over the top of this image, he then would show this to an audience where they began to develop their own meanings of what was happening. Kuleshev was awarded for his findings and then summarized with the meaning that two shots places onto one another would create a clip and the audience would make up their own minds about what was happening in this film.

Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Eisenstein had realized that if you were to put two unrelated shots together it would develop a link between the two shots. He was briefly a student of Kuleshev's, but the two then parted ways after they had different ideas about montage. This film is about the strike that happened in russia and shows how the people were treated if they joined the strike. There are two shots that cut through from the strike to the cow being slaughtered, the strikers are being shown as being treated like animals and they use the cow in the pervious shot shown to demonstrate that the workers are being treated like animals. The cow getting slaughtered in this clip also demonstrates how the workers were killed by the stronger people in their society.



Soviet montage



This montage was successful as we made the film to be like a traditional soviet montage, this clip contains short scenes where something is happening between two people and then quickly cuts to something that is associated with what one of the people is feeling that are in the clip. There are some issues as some of the pictures does not necessarily match up with the way that the people in the film are reacting.

Hollywood montage

This video is a classic example of a Hollywood montage, this was a successful video as it demonstrated the different ways of editing that are involved in a montage film. This is a Hollywood montage as it displays a day long situation and cut it into a small clip, it demonstrates this as it shows these smaller clips as one film. In this video there are some things that could be improved such as the way it was edited as it could have been a bit more precise and their are some glitches as the editing when entering the classroom does not necessarily match up.