Task 5 - Understanding Montage Theory

Montage

The term Montage a technique in film editing in which a series of short shots are edited into a sequence to condense space, time and information.

3 key meaning:



• French Cinema - Simply meaning to edit.
• Soviet Cinema - Placing two deliberately image next to each other. E.g. A shots of a butcher slaughtering cattle used to suggest the Russian troops were mistreating the striking workers.
• Hollywood Cinema - Used to condense a long narrative sequence into short compact sequence e.g. weeks of training condense into two minutes.

2 key films makers:

Les Kuleshov


He was a young Soviet film maker who did an experiment in around 1920. He took an old film clip of a head shot of a noted Russian actor and inter-cut the shot with different images.




Serge Eisenstein









Type of Montage they are:

Rocky -

Modern Times -

Strike -