BDM 206 Soviet Montage

Sergei Eisenstein

Five different types of Montages

- Metric
- Rythmic
-Tonal
-Over tonal
- Intellectual

Movie Examples

Strike (1925)
The Battleship Potemkin (1925)

"Eisenstein believed that film montage could create ideas or have an impact beyond the individual images"
- Retrieved from: Montage Theory

Eisenstein's use of montages allowed him to show the audience a progression of time. The Odessa Steps scene in 'The Battleship Potemkin" is a good example of this as Eisenstein is able to stretch an event that in reality would have taken a few seconds into an eight minute long sequence that depicts the confusion and horror experienced by the characters during the massacre. His in-continuous cuts accurately portray  the mess and disarray on screen.

  
  

Dziga Vertov

A Newsreel cameraman invented the terminology Kino Eye (Film Eye)
Dziga strived to create a unique cinema free of theatrical performance. In doing so he created the movie "Man with the movie camera" (1929) which depicted everyday life, with the use of montages to show a monotonous laborer working everyday to produce a product.
Dziga was greatly influenced by Eisenstein and Kuleshov who took the first step into film editing.

Vsevolod Pudovkin 


Vsevolod firmly believed that it is not the actors that creates the emotional connection with his audience, but rather the context that he puts these actors into onscreen. He also was influenced greatly by Kuleshov and his original stance on montages, where the images before and after affect the way we as an audience read the actors emotions. Pudovkin believed that the "lens of the camera replaces the eye of the observer". Pudovkin's 5 editing techniques are: contrast, parallelism, symbolism, simultaneity, and leit motif, he influenced directors and filmmakers well into the 20th century Hollywood era. Hitchcock himself has been heard to explain his theories as a very important part of the cinematic process.

Citations:

Johnson, G. (2003). MDIA-ENG 451, Hitchcock. Retrieved from: http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/index.html

Richards, E. (October, 2013). Pudovkin's Montage: 5 editing techniques that speak louder than words. Retrieved from: http://nofilmschool.com/2013/10/pudovkin-montage-5-editing-techniques