Task Four: Montage
The term montage has a meaning shown be seen as three different types. There is french cinema, soviet cinema and Hollywood cinema.
In french filmmaking it is referred as a ''montage''. Montage has its own meaning in french which is (assembly installation) which easily shows it is referring to editing.
In the soviet filmmaking of the 20s, ''montage'' was a method of juxtaposing shots to derive a new meaning that did not exist in either shot alone. Lev Kuleshov was a soviet filmmaker and film theorist and was among one of the first about the relatively young medium of cinema in the early 1920s. He declared that editing a film is a resembling form to constructing a building. Brick by brick (shot by shot) the building (film) is erected. To prove his point that it was a like he did an experiment. He took an old clip of a noted Russian actor and inter cut the shot with different images. The steal image of the russian actor does not change, he then enter changes with three different images and he places the shots next to each other one by one and the out of the different images will all be different to what he could have possibly been thinking. This experiment was the start of a technique known as the montage.
In Hollywood cinema, a ''montage sequence'' is a short division in a film in which narrative information is presented in a condensed style.
In hollywood cinema a ''montage sequence'' is a short segment in a film in which narrative information is presented in a condensed fashion. A good example of this is the Rocky training montage scene. The word montage pinpoints specifically rapid and shock cutting of film scenes.
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In the soviet filmmaking of the 20s, ''montage'' was a method of juxtaposing shots to derive a new meaning that did not exist in either shot alone. Lev Kuleshov was a soviet filmmaker and film theorist and was among one of the first about the relatively young medium of cinema in the early 1920s. He declared that editing a film is a resembling form to constructing a building. Brick by brick (shot by shot) the building (film) is erected. To prove his point that it was a like he did an experiment. He took an old clip of a noted Russian actor and inter cut the shot with different images. The steal image of the russian actor does not change, he then enter changes with three different images and he places the shots next to each other one by one and the out of the different images will all be different to what he could have possibly been thinking. This experiment was the start of a technique known as the montage.
In Hollywood cinema, a ''montage sequence'' is a short division in a film in which narrative information is presented in a condensed style.
Sergei Eisenstein was a soviet Russian film director and film theorist. He was well known for the film make of his silent film ''Strike'' (1924). Sergei Eisenstein was briefly a student of Lev Kuleshov, however the two parted away as they both had different ideas. Eisenstein contrasted to aggravate the viewer which were introduced as shocks. In 1925 Sergei Eisenstein made a silent film called Strike and was his first full-lenght feature film. The seemingly unrelated shots in ''Strike'' tells us that the workers felt like they were being treated unfairly and shows them running away from the soldiers and the slaughter of cows portrayed how they were treated. This is the effect of non-diegetic shot of animals (cows) being killed to make to make the audience see death of the worker in the same relationship. This would have been extremely shocking to viewers.At the end you will then see all the workers dead like the cows. This type of montage is a soviet montage style because it shows many rapid shots in a short clip which has over 30 shots in under a minute.
In hollywood cinema a ''montage sequence'' is a short segment in a film in which narrative information is presented in a condensed fashion. A good example of this is the Rocky training montage scene. The word montage pinpoints specifically rapid and shock cutting of film scenes.
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Hollywood Montage
Hollywood cinema a montage sequence is a short division in a film in which reported information is granted in a summerised style.
In our hollywood montage the intention was to Babs play as Joseph Clinton who has a huge boxing match against Theo plays as an old enemy who are both willing to the tittle. In the video Joseph Clinton (Babs) talks about how confident he is for the big fight against an old enemy (Theo) and how hard he has been training.
Our montage makes meaning because it has a a lot of things happening in the video within a short amount time. It shows the build up to the achivement in the montage we would want. I think are hollywood montage is successful because its short and effective, it shows in the video when Joseph Clinton (Babs) was explaing what he did to get prepared it blended in with the intense training he did with his coach (Ronaldo) which shows how we made the video short.
Russian Montage
In our Russian montage we had to do a method dating back to the 1920s called juxtaposing shots to gain new meaning that did not exists in any of the shots alone. We basically had to make a clip head shot and inter cut the shot with different images.
In this video Theo is seen to be daydreaming about something that we don't exactly know. Then we made three shots to show a definition of what he is thinking about. Our first shot we imagined Theo was thinking about Phones. Then in our second shot we imagined Theo was thinking about himself getting robbed by two guys in the street played by myself Usman and Edison. The final shot Theo was daydreaming about money.
How are montage makes meaning because we had three possible realistic chooses on what Theo could be thinking about. I think our Russian montage is successful because we followed the method of juxtaposing, which it short and effective.
A very good analysis of your own work Usman. You must revisit the assignment and ensure you have covered all the theory you are required to at the start of the task. Use your notes or the Powerpoint on the BTEC blog.
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