AS1: Task 5 Part 2: Montage

Understanding Montage Theory 

what is a montage?
A Montage is the technique of selecting, editing and piecing together separate sections of a film or short clip and putting them together to create a continuous whole. There are three main forms of Montage; The French Montage, Hollywood Style Montage and a Soviet Montage..

French Cinema

A French Montage literally means to 'assemble' a film or clip. Therefore, in French Film the term simply identifies the process of editing. A Hollywood Montage is when the film maker picks out the most important/main clips of something and then condense them into a short sequence that shows all these clips. Doing this creates different aspects and condenses a long narrative sequence into a shorter one. Finally, a Soviet Montage is when the film maker juxtaposes different shots that didn't exist in either shot alone to create a new, deeper meaning. Usually the two different shots contrast with each other but bring the film together to reveal the hidden meaning.

Hollywood Cinema

A Hollywood Montage is when you make a short film which shows all the most important parts of a certain thing, such as a day. A famous example is the training scene from Rocky. In this clip we see Rocky training but instead of filming the whole thing we are only shown the most important parts of the day. As the audience we can see it is a whole day as the clip starts of with Rocky running in the morning, and then by the end of the clip we can see from the background light that it is the evening/end of the day.

Early Soviet film making

Soviet uses a method of film editing involving the juxtaposition or partial superimposition of several shots to form a single image.

Early soviet cinema theory of montage was had an altogether different importance. The movie producers began putting purposely differentiating pictures by one another. The montage was that the two pictures demonstrated a picture of a keeps an eye on outward appearances by another picture and this was rehashed three times. The pictures creates an emotion when its next one another.