Montage and Context

Thursday 2nd December

Montage and Context

In this session I learned about Montage and Context. Also I learned that sergei Eisenstein was the first one to use montages. Also in this session we learned that photographs can be interoperated in different ways so the context of the photo mean everything.

Montage

A montage is a series of images or shots that have been edited together to create a sequence. They are often used to convey a large amount of information over a short period. One montage that does this very well is the montage used in the film rocky. In the montage, they use short video clips of him training with music to overlay the video. The montage is to showcase his training. Another way montages can be useful is to showcase any story development. One example that does this very well is the montage used in the animated film Up. In the montage, they use short clips of the couple going through life from when they were young to when they are older. At the end of the montage, in the film up the wife of the couple dies and you get to see the character development of the husband from when his wife was alive to when she died. Even though the montage was used to combine large information over a short period, it was also used to see the character development of the husband.

The person that came up with montages was a soviet film director called Sergei Eisenstein. He was best known for creating famous silent montage films such as “Battleship Potemkin “ and “October”. Eisenstein defined Montage as bringing confliction images/shots together that’s gives a unique contrast leaving a shock and anticipation for the audience. Eisenstein believed that more the conflicting the shorts are, the more it leaves the audience in the show, hitting their inner emotions. The montages he filmed had no volume to them, which just leaves the images and the audience raw emotions and reactions to the images. Sergei Eisenstein is considered as one of the most important pioneers of early cinema, filmmaker and theorist. His legacy can still be felt today. Serge's ideas about how film editing techniques could be used to convey far more than narrative helped to shape the future of the medium. The effect of his ideas can be seen in the rapid cutting of modern action sequences, or the rhythmic edits of music videos.

The video that is at the bottom of this is the montage that I created in this session.