Montage Editing

What is montage editing?

•Process of cutting up film and editing it into the screened sequence.

•May also be used to mean intellectual montage which is the juxtaposition of

short shots to represent actions or idea.•Intellectual montage is used to

consciously convey subjective messages through the juxtaposition of shots which are related in composition or movement

•They are used through repetition of images, through cutting rhythm, detail or

metaphor. •Montage editing, unlike invisible editing, uses close- ups, relatively frequent cuts,

dissolves, superimposition, fades and jump cuts.

• Montage is the process by which an editor takes two pieces of film of tape and combines them to emphasise their meaning.

• It is a method by which through two unrelated shots we may create a third and different meaning.

• Visualise for example shot a which is a pumpkin and shot b which is a hammer going down. Mix both shots together and you get meaning C. Mixing the two shots together insinuates

that the pumpkin will be destroyed by the hammer.

Kuleshov Effect

•The Kuleshov Effect is a film editing (montage) effect demonstrated by Russian filmmaker Lev Kuleshov in the

1910s and 1920s.

•Kuleshov edited together a short film in which a shot of the expressionless face of Tsarist matinee idol Ivan Mozzhukhin

was alternated with various other shots (a plate of soup, a girl, a little girl's coffin).

Montage editing storyboard