Soviet Montage
Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein is credited as the godfather of the montage and innovator of the Soviet montage theory. He developed his famous “ methods of montage ” across his career, predominantly featured in his landmark achievement Battleship Potemkin . Montage is a filmmaking technique that uses a series of short images, collected together to tell a story or part of a story. Montage being a French word means for “ assemble ” or “ edit ” . This is usually used to advance the plot , without using any words and without showing all the detail of what’s going on. There are an infinite number of different types of montages These five basic methods of montage. are as follows: · Metric montage · Rhythmic montage · Tonal montage · Over tonal/Associational montage · Intellectual montage 1. METRIC MONTAGE This first method of montage example is perhaps the simplest method technica