Montage: is a series of connected images allows for complex ideas to be extracted from a sequence and when strung together constitute the entirety of a films idealogical and intellectual power. in other words, the editing of shots rather than the content of the shot alone constitutes the force of a film.
Soviet montage: One main characteristic of soviet montage is the downplaying of individual characters in the centre of attention. Single characters are shown as members of different social classes and are representing a general type or class.
Kuleshov
Sergei Eisenstein. Dziga vertov. They found out how to combine and contrast images to get ideas across and how the rhythm and pace of editing, and the use of music, could stir emotions.
the meaning of the film was not only in spatial composition but in the arrangement of the shots.
film created in edit and head of audience.
Evaluate soviet montage. Editing technique/ historical context and how it can be applied as editing technique. detail.
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Most modern films follow the 'continuity system' so that the viewers get caught up in the story and don't notice the filmmaking.
Soviet montage is completely different and offers lots of ways of giving your films impact and making the viewer think about your ideas.
After the 1917 revolution, fresh film stock was in short supply, so filmmakers learnt by experimenting with fount footage (shots from old films), looking at what happened if they put them together in different ways.
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