Task 6- Creating a montage

Hollywood Montage

In this video it shows us filming a Hollywood montage and it was our first attempt of doing something like this and the whole intension that we had behind this montage was to just show all of the best bits of a "everyday" school day. This type of montage was supposed to show the intensions of a school day and what we would usually get up to in that school day. I think that this was quite successful because we was only showing the best bits throughout the day and that is what a Hollywood montage is supposed to show.


Soviet Montage

In this video it shows us doing a Soviet montage, this was our second attempt at doing a montage. The intension of this video was to show a resemblance from one section of film with another section, this montage shows meaning in to people because people can see one clip and then see the second and they should know the message that we was intending to send out with it. I also think that this montage was successful as well because we understood what it was we had to do to show a resemblance between one part of the video and another part of it.

Task 5- Understanding montage theory

There are different meanings for the word montage when it is referred to 3 of the following contexts

French Montage
The meaning of montage in a French montage just simply means to be able to edit the work that you have already filmed, it also has a literal meaning of Assembly.

Hollywood Montage
The meaning of a Hollywood montage is that it takes all of the best bits out of a series of shots that was taken and then uses them in a film, by doing this it shortens the length of it and the viewers do not get bored of the film easily.

Soviet Montage
A soviet montage is used to reveal a hidden deeper meaning to the film by showing one shot and then using another shot and the second shot is used to make the viewers think about what might be happening inside of the film.

Two key film makers
there are 2 key film makers that had first started with these types of montages, the first person that i will be talking about is:

Lev Kuleshev
Lev Kuleshev is the person who did the soviet montage experiment, he did this experiment in 1920, what this person did was he took a head shot of a Russian actor and then placed different pictures next to it, this made the viewers start to think about things such as what would he be thinking or what is it that he plans on doing.









Serge Eisenstein 
Serge Eisenstein made the film Strike in 1925, at first people don't see any resemblance but when they see the butcher killing the cow in the slaughter house they then see the army pursuing the workers on strike and them kill them all, people see that just like the cow the workers were defenceless against the Russian army.

Modern times

Modern times is a french montage and the meaning of montage in France is to just simply edit the process of a film