AS1: Task 5 types of montage

Types of Montages

The term montage has different meanings when referred to in three different contexts:

1. French film,
2. Hollywood cinema,
3. Early Soviet film making.

Usually Hollywood films have a montage of someone getting better or training or you are progressing. The most famous montage is in Rocky, in every rocky film there is a training montage and it is the cliche of training clips and then motivational music, the famous eye of the tiger.

different styles of montage

Hollywood:  Hollywood montage is simply compressing lots of sequences together to make a long period seem short and quick. the most famous Hollywood montage is the Rocky training montages.

French: In French montage means assembly, french montage is simply editing. 

Early soviet: In soviet films montages were juxtaposing images. it was Used to reveal a hidden, deeper meaning etc.. the idea of this type of montage come from the soviet film maker, Lev Kuleshov.

Another soviet film maker called Sergei Eisenstein made a film called strike and he used a montage to show war and killing and slaughter. 

   Lev Kuleshav 

 Lev Kuleshav did a montage experiment around 1920. He took an old film clip of a head shot of a noted Russian actor and inter-cut the shot with different images. What this young director thought was the same facial expression could change the meaning of a image so he created this picture: