Task Five - Understanding Montage Theory

The term montage has a few meanings, the three meanings of montages are French Montage, Hollywood Style Montage and the Early Soviet Montage.

The French Montage
In French, montage means to edit. This means that there are no examples of a French montage because of its meaning. An example of the French montage would be modern day films. This editing technique is used because without it you would not be able to edit a series of clips and put them together as a film.



Hollywood Montage
A Hollywood montage would be used to show the best parts of a long period of time into a space of a short time, an example would be Rocky. This is where we see him training over weeks and months of hard training put into a 4 minute clip. This type of editing technique is used to allow the viewers to gain an insight of the best parts of a scene and keeps their full attention to the film, whereas if you did not use this editing technique and you was to show long scenes thag are boring, you would end up with an audience that is bored and frustrated.








Early Soviet Montage
An Early Soviet montage is when you create a film but you contrast two clips or images, film makers started to juxtapose shots to create a new meaning. An example of this would be strike. This powerful editing technique is used to get the viewers thinking about the two clips or images and what is happening. An example of this would be the Kuleshev effect

During this era you had two key people who were Les Kuleshev and Serge Eisenstein.
Les Kuleshev was one of the first people to be in the early cinema era. He is well known for creating a short film that uses the same clip with a Russian actor and after the clip and then after this clip he would show an image of some sort so that the audience will think differently of the shot, this was called shot by shot and most commonly known as the Kuleshov effect.

















                                                                        Next up is Serge Eisenstein, he was know as the creator of editing. Eisenstein was the one who created Soviet Montage which was where you would compare and contrast a clip with another clip, in order to show this he created a Soviet Montage called Strike.