Task 4 Montages

French Montage
A French Montage is literally just editing a film. Even though the name of it says montage, it is not actually montage, it just contains editing.

Soviet Montage
A soviet montage was a method of juxtaposing shots to derive new meaning that did not exist in either shot alone.

Hollywood Montage
A Hollywood montage is a short segment in a film in which narrative information is presented in a condensed fashion. For example; Rocky Balboa



Lev Kuleshov
Lev Kuleshov argued that editing a film is like constructing a building. Brick-by-brick (shot-by-shot) the building (film) is erected. He did an experiment that proves this point. He took an old film clip of a head shot of a noted Russian actor and inter-cut the shot with different images. People praised the actors acting when in fact he did not change his facial expression throughout the whole experiment which proves this point.

Sergei Einsenstein
Sergei Eisentein was briefly a student of Kuleshov's, but the two parted ways because they had different ideas of montage. By contrasting unrelated shots Eisentein tried to provoke associations i the viewer, which were induced by shocks.




This montage is a Hollywood montage, this is because it contains all the key characteristics that make it one. The intention behind the montage was to show how a victim got revenge after a bully attack. I think that we were successful in portraying this as it is clear what he did in order to get revenge.

This montage is a soviet montage because it follows a lot of different characteristics of a soviet montage. The intention behind the montage was to show what would happen if you start to get involved with drugs. I think that we were successful in doing this as it clearly shows what happens if you do drugs.