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:
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
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.
You must start this post by explaining the different meanings of the word Montage, where the idea came from and including some examples. You must then write an analysis of each of your own videos and assess how successful they are.
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