Modern day montage.

In filmmaking, a montage is an editing technique in which shots

are juxtaposed in an often fast-paced fashion that compresses
time and conveys a lot of information in a short period. It was
introduced to cinema primarily by Eisenstein, and early Soviet
directors used it as a synonym for creative editing. From the
1930s to the 1950s, montage sequences often combined
numerous short shots with special optical effects, consisting of
blur, fades, double exposures, dissolves, and music. This has
developed from the first photograph taken in 1827 by a man
called Claude Niepce, and can hardly be noticed in modern day
Hollywood today.
Montages has changed greatly over the years from political, to
more entertainment from the early 1800. It firstly started off with
a photograph, something you were able to see through a circling
disk. That soon transformed into a mini movie clip of many
different photographs from different angles and changing
positions, showing very quickly and moving onto the next. The
first ever movie created was on October 15 1888, a silent movie
consisting of three characters with no edits involved. In 1903
Edwin Porter was the first to show editing techniques in filming.
The Great Train Robbery used cutting by involving an actual
slicing machine to create a better image for the audience. In 1915
D.W. Griffith was the first person to use a range of different shots
in a film after he used shots such as close ups in his movie Birth
of a nation. This changed film in a major way, as the techniques
are still used in todays world, Griffiths realised that emotions
could be portrayed through different camera angles and pace of
editing. Then came in the Kuleshov effect (see some work above
on weebly) Thekuleshov effect was Soviet director and film
theorist. It is described as a montage effect on a film which Lev
believed the audience would respond to more; creating bigger
ideas from the average film. Alfred Hitchcock then caught onto
the idea that montages can be pushed to the extreme, and show
the audience something that is impossible to achieve and
unrealistic. That shows the change from political viewing to
entertainment because filmers now want to make the audience
laugh, rather than a psychological reasoning. Editing has allowed
films now days to grow and become more interesting for audience
through aspects such as camera angles, narrative and actors. An
example of this would be 1960 Psycho. A psychological thrillerhorror film. The shower scene of her getting harshly murdered
has the kuleshov effect involved, using 80 different action shots
to make it look as realistic as possible. Moving the camera to not
actually be able to see the knife hit her body but sounds, and
blood pouring from her body to demonstrate that.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WtDmbr9xyY)

In the years between the Russian Revolution and the rise of

Stalin, filmmakers in the Soviet Union invented a new
language of film. Most modern films follow the continuity
system so that viewers get caught up in the story and dont
notice the filmmaking. Soviet montage is completely
different and offers lots of ways of giving your films impact
and making the viewer think about your ideas. After the
revolution, there was a large shortage of equipment,
meaning that filmers had to create products with more
imaginations and experiments, The Russian Revolution
meant that there was a huge demand for propaganda, the
ideal form to get revolutionary ideas across t those who
couldn't read. Eisenstein was a big theorist of montage,
writing books like "film form", where he looked at how things
such as changing the duration of a shot, and its emotional content
would affect the quality of work and Filmmakers like Sergei
Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov thought the continuity system was
bourgeois because it faked reality.
Passing on from this, Hollywood has slightly continued this idea of
the montage time passing. Clips that are shown above (weebly)
that is demonstrating how time is influencing the actions of the
characters and their life style. The camera shots are better
quality than before, and have the ability to have different effects
and music added to it to make more of an illusion for the viewers.
A famous example of this would be rocky. This is a clip of him
training over months, to see how his body improves and his
fitness levels rising. the music is done to the beat to be in time,
and brings the narrative along forward by compressing
heavyweight champion from all this training. The movie was shot
in 28 days, and became the highest grossing film of 1976. From
this they've interpreted this idea in filming to make films better
and improve the story
line.
To conclude this has a strong impact on the audience, and has
made filming more of an offer from all different countries because
of the publicity. The development started from a single photo shot
with limited quality; to be able to have a 2 hour movie that makes
us as viewers think its alive and get strongly involved in it! If
there wasn't this big change in shots, hardly anyone would be
interested in films, and it wouldn't be able to keep our
entertainment up for a large quantity of time.