Montage
What is montage?
Montage creates the visual of adding together scenes (preferably with background music) and has a different meaning when being referred to the different types of montage. Montage is used in films to compress time. Different types of montage include:
- French film
- Hollywood cinema
- Early Soviet film making
Where did the idea originate from?
A man named Lev Kuleshov created an experiment in the year 1920 where he took one clip of film and inter-cut that particular shot with other images.
The French Montage:
In French film making, montage has the simple meaning of 'assembly' and this term identifies the process of editing.
The Soviet Montage:
The Soviet Montage included having juxtaposing shots to create a new meaning within a film - one that was non existing beforehand and wasn't in one of the two shots used to create the montage.
The Soviet Montage:
The Soviet Montage included having juxtaposing shots to create a new meaning within a film - one that was non existing beforehand and wasn't in one of the two shots used to create the montage.
The Hollywood Montage:
One extremely popular film would be 'Rocky'. The first Rocky film was released in 1976 and is notably one of the most popular sagas to have a montage throughout. Several Hollywood films use montage an example of a montage used in Hollywood would be the Rocky III training montage.
Charlie Chaplin:
One actor that used juxtaposition within his films was Charlie Chaplin. His use of juxtaposition is seen in his film 'Modern Times'. Modern Times juxtaposes a herd of sheep with a herd of people leaving a subway. The use of juxtaposition here demonstrates two opposites acting alike in order to create one scene and which is why this scene in Sheep can be used as a montage.
Sergei Eisenstein:
Charlie Chaplin:
One actor that used juxtaposition within his films was Charlie Chaplin. His use of juxtaposition is seen in his film 'Modern Times'. Modern Times juxtaposes a herd of sheep with a herd of people leaving a subway. The use of juxtaposition here demonstrates two opposites acting alike in order to create one scene and which is why this scene in Sheep can be used as a montage.
Modern Times
Sergei Eisenstein:
Eisenstein uses juxtaposition in his film 'Strike'. Strike demonstrates the slaughtering of cows and the death of hundreds of workers who have been killed. Again we see how both scenes come together to portray the same message. Eisenstein's film is an example of The Soviet Montage. Shown below is the film, Strike.
Strike
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