Task Four: Montages

Montages

Montages is a type of edits which contain many different shots put together particularly quickly,
For our first montages, me and my media group have decided to put together some inspirations from movies we have seen in the past as well as some ideas of our own.

In French film practice "montage" has it's literal french meaning 'Assembly, installation) which simply identifies the techniques of editing that you need to do for a french montage.

In Soviet filmaking a montage is a method of juxtaposing shots to derive new meaning that did not exist in either shot alone. A popular example of soviet film montage is by Sergei Eisenstein in 1925 called "Strike", this included a worker strike mixed with a gruesome killing of an animal:


In Hollywood cinema a "montage sequence" is a short sequence in a film in which narrative information is present in a condensed fashion with quick jump cuts and music. A great example of hollywood cinema montages is the rocky training scene where it shows how the boxer would train over a period of time with quick edits and great music:

We filmed two sets of montages, the first was a "Hollywood Montage", the second montage was a "Russian Montage".

The Hollywood Montage

This is our Hollywood Montage where we portrayed a boxer getting ready for a big match and added a montage sequence of him training while being interview, yes our main inspiration for this montage was 'Rocky' but has also some other ideas and inspirations too.

The Russian Montage
This is our Russian Montage where we had one character thinking about something but just by looking at the first scene you can't really tell what he was thinking about until we showed another scene where we showed how the character had recently been robbed however we then showed back to the character thinking where we then showed that he was thinking about money.

Task Three: From Analogue to Digital Editing

From Analogue to Digital Editing

Analogue Editing
Analogue films are made up images printed on acetate negatives which are 'spliced' together to form a reel of  film. These images are fed through a projector at a constant speed of 24 frames per second (24 Images per second) making the pictures move.
Analogue editing was by a person hand cutting and sticking reels of film together this was called "Splicing", this had many cons such as the reel of film being destroyed on accident or can be very expensive. No backups of film were store as there was no way of copying the reels of film.

The First Moviola
The Initial editing was first done on the first moviola was a device produced to be able to make editing easier and quicker by making the device to be able to cut and paste pieces of film together. This was done by using a splicer then threading the film on a device with a viewer such as the moviola.

Video Editing
Video editing is the process of editing when segments of motion picture, special effects and sound recordings are edited together perfectly in the post-production process before the film release. Before digital technologies became available, magnetic tapes otherwise known as video tapes would have been used to store film. Most video editing had been superseded by the more superior digital editing which is usually a cheaper and faster process.

Digital Editing
Digital media is a form of electronic media where data is stored digitally (instead of Analogue Form) which took up less space in physical form and would be much more difficult to destroy.
Digital editing is the use of computers to order and manipulate the digital data allowing the editing of the movie to be quick and easy.
Non-Linear Editing
Non-linear editing is a method that allows you to access any frame within the digital video clip regardless of the sequence in the clip and be able to edit the frame any way you wish by adding effects or by moving/deleting it. The freedom to access any frame and use a cut-and-paste method allows you to easily include effects such as fades, transitions and effects that cant be achieved without linear editing. The pros of this is that it is very easy to do and can be done quickly however can be very difficult to learn and edit film.
Final Cut
Most digital editing is used on software such as Avid or Final Cut Pro which allows a bypass of the positive film press altogether, this meant that a physical copy wouldn't have to be cut and spliced to edit and is done digitally and easily