t4 montage done

 In the world of montage there are different types of montages, we All the montages have different meanings;

French cinema- in French practice montage has its literal meaning (assembly, installation)

Soviet cinema- in soviet film making of the 1920s, montage was a method of juxtaposing shots to derive new meaning that did not exist in either shot alone.

Hollywood cinema- in Hollywood cinema a montage cinema is a short segment in a film in which narrative informative is presented in a condensed fashion. and example of balboa. in this film rocky was training for a boxing match and there was montage of him training.this could have been a period of days, weeks or even months but it was condensed into about 2 minutes.


The two key film-makers 

Lev Kuleshov- he was among the first people to theorize about the relatively young medium of the cinema in the 1920s. he agreed that editing a movie or film is like constructing a building, brick by brick shot by shot the movie the building is created. he did an experiment that proved this point was true, he took an old film clip of a head shot of an old Russian actor and inter cut the shot with different images, when people saw this they praised the actor because the picture of the man he had initially put up had different expressions and when another picture was put beside it, the expression on his face matched the other picture. the simple act of juxtaposing the shots in a sequence created the relationship. the audience were able to read meaning from looking at the two pictures. this experiment was the start of the technique known as montage.

Serge Eisenstein- he was briefly a student of Kuleshov, but the two of them ended up parting ways because they read different meanings as to what a montage meant. By using contrasting, unrelated shots Eisenstein tried to create shock in the minds of viewers.

The two key film clips;
Strike;


Strike; The sequence is very short, just under a minute and a half, but contains over 30 shots. This rapid cutting is typical of the Montage film which on average has a greater number of shots than any other type of film making of that era. The scene begins by showing the striking workers running, hundreds of them, and also shows the military advancing and firing, but it never shows the military in the same shot as the workers. The military chase the striking workers and then gun them down in a field. We don’t see any people being shot, but instead we see all their bodies lying there after the slaughter. This footage is inter cut with non-diegetic shots of a bull being killed in a slaughterhouse. The use of a non-diegetic insert is another common Montage device.

Rocky(Hollywood Montage); this happens to be a Hollywood montage , rocky is a new named boxer, in the clip we were shown rocky was training for a boxing match.


How the filming went
My group and i made two montages, the soviet montage and the Hollywood montage. the Hollywood montage was the easiest because it was easy to come up with a story line, on the other hand the soviet montage took a longer time to film because it was difficult coming up with a story line for it. But we managed to film both.

Hollywood-

This montage was easy and fun. i worked with two other friends to achieve the end product. we used an empty classroom as our setting and we used different types of props. most of them were handmade, for example the price tags. we had 4 scenes all together. first scene was of a young lady walking round in the market looking for an handbag to buy, she came across one she liked but she did not have enough money to buy it so she walked away. scene 2 was in a bookshop with the lady walking in the market and another lady. the first lady was selling all her books in order to have enough money to buy the bag, first lady bought some books. scene 3 was of the bookseller lady and another lady buying books, she sold some books to her and got some money. In that same scene she was packing up her books, counted he money she had altogether and rejoiced and closed her shop for the day. Scene 4 was the last scene we filmed, she walked back to the shop where she saw the bags, she bought the one she wanted and walked off the scene with a smile on her face.

Soviet Montage-

This was the most difficult of the two montages, we used props like chairs, sheets of papers, a classroom.we had a lot of scenes. Some of the scene were outdoor and some of it was inside. We did this because the whole point of a soviet montage is to make different shots look connected. the outdoor scene was about a happy girl who collected flowers, went off  and came back only to meet her flowers dead. the indoor shots was about three people that showed anger and death, one of the characters was tore up sheets, the other character was about anger and the last character died. All this unlike shots are what made our Soviet Montage.

The intention behind my montage- The intention behind my Hollywood montage was to be able to show how you can fit in a story of 10 minutes into a shorter time. The intention between my Soviet Montage was to show how different shots could mean the same thing even if they are not meant to be connected together.

What went well  a few things went well during the filming, operating the camera was easy and directing the acting was fun. every member of the group brought an idea to the table this made it easy for the us to carry on with our work.when we set off to film, finding a suitable filming area was not a problem. we found an empty room with tables and chairs in it and this was the best kind of setting we could use.

Was  it successful- The Hollywood Montage went very well and we knew the exact thing to do, we got on with our work and we completed the filming as fast as possible so for this reason i think it was a successful production. However, the Soviet Montage was not the same, it was not as successful as it should have been. At first we did not have a good enough story line which made filming difficult. We tried different things but did not quite fit into the idea we were trying to present like, shock, suspense etc. And the shots we filmed did not seem as real as possible for these reasons i think it was not a successful production.