C. Fictional Adaptation - Workshop films/output
Montage workshop
A big meltdown during this workshop (personal issues) however I did get an idea what Soviet montage was.
It is a series of clips filmed in one shot but then cut together to create a montage.
The practice is used in many films since it was first developed by Sergei Eisenstein in the 1920s.
Montage theory, in its rudimentary form, asserts that a series of connected images allows for complex ideas to be extracted from a sequence and, when strung together, constitute the entirety of a film's ideological and intellectual power. In other words, the editing of shots rather than the content of the shot alone constitutes the force of a film. Many directors still believe that montage is what defines cinema against other specific media. Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin, for example, claimed that words were thematically inadequate, despite silent cinema's use of intertitles to make narrative connections between shots.
Steve Odin traces montage back to Charles Dickens' use of the concept to track parallel action across a narrative (Wiki 2001)
Although my study into Montage wasn't extensive I utilized the skills that I was shown in various film to adapt an approach of time passing by within my film, Montages give a sense of pace and creates tensions with the audience.
(I know this post is not as it should be)
A big meltdown during this workshop (personal issues) however I did get an idea what Soviet montage was.
It is a series of clips filmed in one shot but then cut together to create a montage.
The practice is used in many films since it was first developed by Sergei Eisenstein in the 1920s.
Montage theory, in its rudimentary form, asserts that a series of connected images allows for complex ideas to be extracted from a sequence and, when strung together, constitute the entirety of a film's ideological and intellectual power. In other words, the editing of shots rather than the content of the shot alone constitutes the force of a film. Many directors still believe that montage is what defines cinema against other specific media. Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin, for example, claimed that words were thematically inadequate, despite silent cinema's use of intertitles to make narrative connections between shots.
Steve Odin traces montage back to Charles Dickens' use of the concept to track parallel action across a narrative (Wiki 2001)
Although my study into Montage wasn't extensive I utilized the skills that I was shown in various film to adapt an approach of time passing by within my film, Montages give a sense of pace and creates tensions with the audience.
(I know this post is not as it should be)
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