- Montage is a type of editing
- A series of short shots are edited into a sequence to condense space, time and information.
- Soviet montage is a type of montage and it comes from Russia.
- In soviet monatage theory the editing of shots create symbolic meaning.
- Key figure is Lev Kuleshov
- for Kuleshov editing a film is like constructing a building. brick by brick, shot by shot.
- He conducted an experiment to show that montage can lead the viewer to reach certain conclusions about the action in a film.
- The experiment was that he put together a small film in wich a shot of the expressionless face of Tsarist matinee idol Ivan Mosjoukine was alternated with various other shots ( A plate of soup, a girl in a coffin, a woman on divan.)
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- The audience thought that Mosjoukine's facial expressions changed according to what he was looking at
- The audience thought that these were what the facial expressions were
- Soup= hunger
- Girl in coffin= grief
- Woman on the divan= desire
- The facial expression was actually the same in each shot.
- Montage works because viewers infer meaning based on context
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruoPT9JeYHA
- Hitchcock uses his own example of how we as the audience picture a sequence according to the context.
- the same close up is seen to express different emotions according to the image its put with ( Woman and child) (Woman in bikini)
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