Task 4 - Montage

Task 4 - Montage

The term montage has a slight different meaning when referred to in the following three context

French film:

Practice montage has its literal french meaning assembly, installation and simply identifies editing

Soviet:

Montage was a method of juxtaposing shots to derive new meaning that did not exist in earlier shot alone.

Lev Kuleshov: Kuleshov was among the very first to theorise about the relatively young medium of the cinema in the 1920's. He argued that the editing editing a film is like constructing a building brick-by-brick the building is elected. He did an experiment that proves this point. He took an old film clip of a head shot of noted russian actor and inter-cut the shot with different images. When he showed these shots, audiences thought he was great, this technique is now known as montage.


Sergei Eisenstein:

Sergei was briefly a student of kuleshov's, but he went his own way because he had his own idea of a montage. By contrasting shots Eisenstein tried to provoke associates in the viewer, which were introduced by shocks. An example of a film Eisenstein made is Strike, in this film the workers are treated like cattle.

Hollywood:

In hollywood cinema a montage sequence is a short segment in a film which narrative information is presented in a condensed fashion. An example of a hollywood film is Rocky.

Hollywood


The montage we created involved us putting the camera in different positions whilst we played football, i think the montage went well with the syncing and cutting and i am very happy with the outcome. But i think we could have moved the camera around a little more to make the montage more interesting. I also believe the song we used to put over the footage was very good as it was synced very well, but i still fell if we had more time we could have added more syncs into the edit and made it much better. Throughout the montage we built up the pace, we did this to show that the longer the montage went on for the better the characters got, so at the start of the montage we put all the bad atempts we had and then built it up to the best attempts.



Soviet


For the soviet montage we filmed various different actions and movements. It didn't really take us very long to create but i believe if we had more time that the outcome would have been much better, but i think that the overall video was successful. I also like this montage as it is very simple with hardly no editing which gives it an old fashion affect. The point we were trying to make in this montage was the characters feelings. So we put flashbacks of what the character wanted to do which was break stuff and do stupid things, this was because were trying to make the viewers feel that the actor was angry.