In our soviet montage, it shows a day to day school of us. In
our montage we were able to use our clip and after filming the clip, we were
able to use an image to represent our previous clip. The purpose of our montage
is to show our audience that we can create a successful soviet montage. Our
produced montage shows our audience how we feel when we are in school through
the use of one clip and using another clip to show the first one. In conclusion,
I believe that our soviet piece of montage was successful.
Hollywood Montage
We were able to create our own piece
of Hollywood Montage. In our Hollywood montage, we were able to show a clip of
the whole school day and was able to make it last for two minute and twenty
second. The purpose of the clip is to show our audience that we can record and
edit successfully and also put it up on our blog for audience to see. This means
that we able to use the right recording style to enable our work to be
perfect. In conclusion, I believe that
our Hollywood montage was successful but we could improve on couple stuff like
our communication when filming, we can improve this this will then lead to us having a perfect Hollywood Montage.
The term montage has a slightly different meaning when
refereed to the following three contexts:
French film
Hollywood cinema
Early Soviet film making
Montage is a technique in film editing in which a series of short shots are edited into a sequence to condense space, time, and information. The term has been used in various contexts. It was introduced to cinema primarily by Eisenstein, and early Soviet directors used it as a synonym for creative editing.In France the word ''Montage'' simply denotes cutting. The montage sequence is usually used to suggest the passage of time, rather than to create a symbolic meaning as it does in Soviet montage theory.
The French Montage
in the film practice 'Montage' simply means assembly/
editing. Therefore, in French film the term simply identifies
the process of editing.
French
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.
Hollywood style montage
Hollywood film makers choose to include a montage to show the
viewer different part of film shot. For example, the movie Rocky uses this the
best as it shows part of the long period of time in a space of 2 minute. In
addition, it include different aspect that's use in his training. furthermore, Hollywood montage is used to condense a long narrative sequence into a short compact sequence. For example if a film maker is trying to show a week of someone training for football, they could do this by condensing the one week of training to become a two minute sequence.
Soviet Montage
The Soviet Montage movement started in 1924/25 and ended at 1930. During the Montage movement's existence, perhaps less than thirty films were made in the style. But the films were very powerful at that time. In 1920, montage had different meaning, film makers started
Juxtaposition* shot to create new meaning that did not exist in either shot
alone.
*Juxtaposition means placing two deliberately contrasting images
next to each other.
Lev kuleshov did an experiment in around 1920. Kuleshov edited together a short film in which
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 a divan). The film was shown
to an audience who believed that the expression on Mosjoukine's face was
different each time he appeared, depending on whether he was "looking
at" the plate of soup, the girl in the coffin, or the woman on the divan,
showing an expression of hunger, grief or desire, respectively.
Sergei Eisenstein was a significant filmmaker because he
showed off the Soviet Montage. His feature length film was called strike and he
showed a video of the strikers and cross-cuts it to show a cattle being
executed. This done this to show his audience the way in the strikers were
treated.
He also compared and contrast a clip with another
clip, in order to show this he created a Soviet Montage called Strike. furthermore, this is used to reveal a hidden, deeper meaning. For example A shots of a butcher slaughtering a cattle is used to suggest the Russian troops were mistreating the striking workers.
Analogue editing was before all the new technology we have today where you can easily and quite quickly edit a movie. In times when analogue editing was used, one would create a film through having a razor blade and a diagonal splicing block. After the tape was cut where it needed cutting, it would have to be taped back together, which would be repeated over and over again until a film was created. furthermore, analogue editing is the cutting together of pieces of celluloid film also traditionally films are made up images printed to acetate negatives. These are then 'spliced' together to form a real film. These are then feed through a projector at a constant speed of 29 frames a second which makes the picture appear to be moving. This method is known as analogue.
Analogue editing was around before it improved into digital editing. Before computers were created they used analogue editing which was all done by hand, there was nothing done by using software. You had a copy of the positive film where all the footage went onto when it was filmed. They then cut the film in different parts using a splicer and pasted it onto different pieces of film to create the cutaways. With analogue editing it then had to be fed through a machine, this shows how much the editing techniques has changed over the years how now it can all be done on a computer and no messing around is needed.
The Moviola
AMoviola is a device that allows afilm
editorto view film while editing. It was the first machine for
motion picture editing when it was invented byIwan Serrurierin 1924. Moviola the company is still in existence and is
located in Hollywood where part of the facility is located on one of the
original Moviola factory floors. The Moviola was the first machine used
for feature length motion picture editing.
Video editing
Before digital technologies became available magnetic tape were used to store information, these is known as a video tape. video editing is the process of editing segment of these tapes using a device that mechanically puts pieces of video tape together. The films has to be edited in the correct or this called Linear editing. Linear editing is a post production process of selecting, arranging and modifying images and sounds in a ordered sequence.
Digital editing
digital media is a form of electronic media where data are stored in digital (as opposed to analogue forms). Digital editing is the use of computers to order and manipulate this digital data. There are many different editing programs such as : Adobe premier, Avid, final cut pro. Furthermore, digital film making uses bits and bytes (strings of Is and Ds ) to record, transmit and reply images, instead of chemicals on films. The whole process is electronic so there is no printing or ''splicing'' involved.
Digital editing soon over took video editing as it is much quicker and therefore cheaper. The biggest pro is that you can edit digitally in any order. Digital editing easy to undo any film error.
Non-linear editing
non-linear editing is a method that allows you to access any frame in a digital video clip regardless of sequence in the clip. The freedom to access any frame, and use a cut-and-paste method, similar to the ease of cutting and pasting text in a word processor, and allows you to easily include fades, transitions, and other effects that cannot be achieved with linear editing. You can edit a sequence from the end of the film before you have started editing the first scene. The process uses electronic files so it is easy as cutting and pasting in a world document
There are many cons and pros for analogue and digital editing.
One of the pros of the Analogue editing is that is much more quicker when
editing because those who film it loves to take their time when filming but
this allows them to have only one shot when filming. Additionally, it is safe
when editing with analogue, because the film wouldn’t be stored on the computer
which means that the film that was edited can’t get misplaced. However, one of
the cons of analogue editing is that if there’s a mistake taking place during
the time of the filming, you cannot go back and make any editing changes which
means that the film that’s produced will not be as good as it should be. Furthermore,
communication will be a con for example when someone is editing and they say “action”
you’ll not be able to cut their voice out which will mess up the final film piece.
There are some cons and pros of
Digital editing. One of the cons of digital editing is that you might find it
too difficult when it comes to editing the film as it is very difficult to use.
Also, due to it allow us to edit the same clip multiple times; people may take
advantage when filming which will take a long time to finish editing. Furthermore,
due to digital editing depending on technology, users have to make sure that
the technology they are using doesn’t have a fault while they are editing because
this may meant that the film editing they did may get misplaced which is very
bad for users as it means that they have to start all over again. However the
pros of digital editing are that users can put their film clips however they
want when editing and doesn’t have to film their clips in order as they could
edit it in order on digital editing. Furthermore, this will mean they get a
longer time to edit without rushing their work.
In-camera
Editing is a technique of video production, in which the camera operator shoots
the shots in the extract order that they will be viewed in. In addition, in camera editing was a technique used in a
great deal in the early days of film making before ‘splicing’ (the art of
cutting connecting film strip) became easier. Furthermore, in-camera editing films
are ‘edited’ by simply switching on and off the camera to enable them do
different scenes in the film. The process of In Camera editing takes immense amount of planning, this is because so that the the shot that are filmed, are the ones that will be viewed in directly that order In conclusion, one of the most famous in- camera
editors was George Melies, which was a magician who had seen the films made by the
Lumiere brothers. So therefore he saw at once the possibilities of a novelty
more than just a motion itself. In 1890, he made ‘The Vanishing Lady’ using a
technique known as “In camera editing”. It was rumoured that he discovered the
art of motion purely by accident when a camera of his broke down for a brief
second.One of the pro for In Camera editing is that it takes a
small period of time to create the film as the camera helps edit the film for
the user therefore you do not need to
editing your film on the computer which means that it doesn’t have to take up a
long time. Additionally, a pro for In Camera editing is when a person is filming,
it makes a continuous film clip without no jumps from scenes to scenes, which
allows the film to show smoothly.On the other hand, one of the cons of In Camera editing is
that if a film scene goes wrong, they cannot go back to do any changes for
their mistake. For example, during the time of my film in my group, I remembered
how I made a mistake in one scene when talking and we had to delete the one I made
the mistake in and had to start again which is the negative side of doing In
Camera editing.Another con of In Camera editing is that is very
difficult to communicate with one another because during the time of our
filming in my group, we found it very difficult to communicate with one another
while filming which meant that our film wasn’t that good due to lack of
communication
George Melies vanishing Lady This is a piece of our in-camera editing :
My in- camera
editing analysis
In our camera editing shot, I managed to use different types
of shots like, mid-shots, close-up shots, long shots and wide shots which
suggest that I was better than my last film making shot, which shows the
improvement of my skills in camera editing.
We were able to produce a really good piece of film making,
as we were able to act out our piece of film clip very well, we were able to do
this because we worked as a team, motivated one another and was able to cooperate
as a team.
Our ideas and creativity meant that we were able to make a really good piece of film without the help of the teacher. In addition, our body language was very composed and our stage direction was express very well during the processes of our film making. we were able to get the right shot and had a strong and good camera angle, in addition our timing when stopping a shot and starting in was on time which was really good. on the other hand, things we have to improve on as a team is our communication skill and camera man skills. I need to be able to communicate with everyone on my team which which enable us to have a good team chemistry and if each person in my team could improve on our camera skills this means that we don't have to rely on one person but means that we are all able to use the camera which means that we're not limited when it come to using the camera. Due us not having a good communication skills that we needed, this lead to miss communication in our film making scene. I personally believe everyone,including me has improved in our acting skills since we started media because in our fist film making we could see that some of us including me wasn't confident in our acting skills and wasn't confident speaker when it came to film making whereas now we we're able to speak loud, confidently and was able to perform a well made in-camera editing
George Melies
vanishing Lady