(IV) Task Four: Montage

Montage

In our next class filming, we are making our montage which consist two shots of video within our topics. The topics that we have to make are Montage which the term montage has a slightly different meaning when reffered to in the following three contexts:

French Film
Soviet Filmmaking of the 1920s
Hollywood Cinema

The French Film practice "montage" has its literal french meaning (assembly, installation) and simply identifies editing which we did not use so forge this one.

The Soviet Filmmaking of the 1920s, "montage" was a method of juxtaposing shots to derive new meaning that did not exist in either shot alone. This montage is the main example that we use in one of our main montages. This montage is based on silent films and how they converts two things at once with just music and non-talking.

The person who came up with these montages is Lev Kuleshov was among the very first one to theorise about the relatively young medium of the cinema in the 1920s. He argued his way in to making another version on editing. He ways of the argument of editing was to have a way to constructing the film like a building. Brick-by-brick but with clip-by-clip the film is erected into a full movie or film. to prove his point, he tried to experiment it which came out like a success. By making it a big success, he took an old film clip of a noted russian actor and inter-cut the shot with different images.

When he showed the film to people they praised the actor's acting - the hunger in his face, when he saw the soup, the delight in the woman and he grief of the little girl. The simple act of juxtaposing the shots in a sequence made the relationship. The audience was able to infer meaning from looking at the two shots.

Sergei Eisenstein was briefly a student of Kuleshov's, but the two parted ways bceause they had different ideas of montage. By contrasting unrelated shots Eisenstein tried to provide associations in the viewers which were induced by shocks.

There are two clips that used as a example for our two montages and they were "Strike: and "Rocky Balboa" which are the montage of silence film and sound film.

The Strike: The strike was used as the Soviet Silence film as it was made many years before the ending of the silence film.

Plot
The workers must have rebelled on the Soviet army as they are changing the law of the workers' job and their money policy.

In the Hollywood Cinema, a "montage sequence" is a film in which narrative information is presented in a condensed fashion. For example, Rocky Balboa, the movement and the daily workout of Rocky which will take months but towards the viewers it will look like a week or a day.

There are two sets of montages that are used for our film Soviet and Hollywood.

For our Soviet Montage, we decided to have silent movement and speech for this film. Our choice of Soviet montage is called "Daydreaming" which we decided to do since I was the only one in the group who is always daydreaming. In this film, I will be playing the daydreamer, Edison and Usman are he thieves, Babs is directing and Ronaldo is filming. The plot of this film is the daydreamer is dreaming about his phone and how he misses them but he has flashback of why he misses his phone for they were stolen by thieves and they ran off with his phone. Then he goes back to reality only to daydream about the money to buy a new phone.



For our Hollywood Montage, we decided to have a film that involves action and creativity for this film. Our choice of Hollywood montage is called "The Boxer's Interview" which we decided to do since Babs decide to rein act the Rocky Training session from Rocky. In this film, Babs is the Boxer, Ronaldo is his Coach, Usman is the Presenter of the Match, I am the Rival of the Boxer and Edison is the Cameraman. Edison, Ronaldo, Me and Usman was the interviewer of the Boxer. The plot of this film is the interview with the Boxer and his flashback of his training with coach for the upcoming match with his rival. Then at the ending of the film, he begins his match with his rival.


With these two films completed, uploading it and placing it on the YouTube was kind of hard as we have to go through different staging which is making the work complete.

That Montage Coursework Complete