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1. Meet y o u r E d u c a t o r Dr. J. JANARDHAN Ph.D. ( Journalism & Mass Communication ) MJMC, FAC (FTII) 1 + Y e a r s E x p e r i e n c e

2. SOVIET MONTAGES

3. DID YOU KNOW? Montage is a technique in film editing in which a series of shorts are edited into a sequence to compact space , time , and information

4. DID YOU KNOW? Visual montage may combine shots to tell a story chronologically or may juxtapose images to produce an impression or to illustrate an association of ideas  

5. DID YOU KNOW? Montage may also be applied to the combination of sounds for artistic expression.  Dialogue , music , and sound effects may be combined in complex patterns, Ex:Alfred Hitchcock’s   Blackmail (1929),

6. DID YOU KNOW? Montage technique developed early in cinema, primarily through the work of the American directors  Edwin S. Porter   (1870–1941) and D.W. Griffith (1875–1948).

7. What is Soviet Montage?

8. Soviet Montage Standard file format for photographic images Just like  French Impressionist cinema , Soviet Montage came from the concept that film theory Director Lev Kulshov first conceptualized montage theory on the basis that one frame may not be enough to convey an idea or an emotion The audience are able to view two separate images and subconsciously give them a collective context .

9. Soviet Montage Standard file format for photographic images Soviet Montage is so intertwined with the history of the U.S.S.R. and the Russian Revolution Soviet Montage is bound to happen when a state attempts to seize complete control of a nation's entire film industry The use of montage theory is shaped along with The ways in which communism shaped

10. Soviet Montage Standard file format for photographic images Without the historical context it would be hard to differentiate the desires of the Soviet Union and the experimental maneuver from the Russian filmmakers After the Bolshevik revolution , the People' Commissariat of Education was established until the new government could take complete control the film industry. Lenin would finally nationalize the film industry entirely in 1919 Causing production companies were dissolved .

11. SOVIET MONTAGE Entire generation of filmmakers disappeared The nation's State Film School was founded in the same year, Director Lev Kuleshov , invited to create his own workshop His task was to train those who the Soviets deemed more important to the film industry , including filmmakers and actors alike.

12. SOVIET MONTAGE Under the New Economic Policy, a limited amount of privately owned production companies were allowed to create films. By this time, the government had placed film as a priority Lenin famously saying " Of all the arts, for us the cinema is most important “

13. what is Montage Style? For Pudovkin , believed that shots were like bricks , to be joined together to build a sequence. In the montage movement, usually did not have one protagonist , they have social groups . They also did not resort to professional actors in their films Soviet filmmakers would usually get normal people to act, because non-actors have the genuine emotion , It was called  typage.

14. Soviet Montage The fall of Soviet Montage was due to the Soviet government itself, They did not allowed complicated films and some filmmakers The government introduced a film movement that is based on reality , Soviet Realism  in 1934. The movement ended when Vertov released films  Enthusiasm (1931)  and Pardovkin's Desserter (1933)

15. Eisenstein Eisenstein was the big theorist of montage Worked on how things such as changing the duration of a shot   Using movement in the shot, and its emotional content , would affect audiences. The most famous montage sequence of all is the Odessa Steps scene from  Battleship Potemkin , where protesting citizens are mowed down by Tsarist troops. It also uses ‘ stretch time ’

16. Vertical Montage Another idea of Eisenstein’s is ‘ vertical montage ’ It is about how elements of the images (like how the shot is composed, and how an actor moves) work together with the soundtrack .

17. Dziga Vertov 

18. Dziga Vertov His 1929  Man with a Movie Camera  is a ‘ city symphony ’. It covers lots of different kinds of events during a ‘day in the life’ of the city Vertov uses parts of objects close-ups low and high angle shots patterns and shapes To build up a sense of time and place The end of the film is really powerful, with a rapid pileup of shots

19. Montage in modern films Modern Filmmaker Geoffrey Reggio  used a lot of Vertov’s ideas in 1980s film  Koyaanisqatsi   (Life out of Balance)   Vertov wanted to celebrate the crowd and the modern city, but Reggio made an environmentalist diatribe. He used time-lapse and slow motion to show modern life as a nightmare. He used ‘ intellectual montage’

20. •   Sergio Leone‘s spaghetti Westerns. There’s a great  three-man showdown   in  The Good , The Bad and The Ugly   that uses loads of Soviet montage ideas:   Alex Cox introduced ‘ rhythmic montage’ in his Sci-fi Repo Man Soviet Montage

21. 1. Strike (1925), dir. Eisenstein 2. October (1928), dir. Eisenstein 3. Battleship Potemkin (1925), dir. Eisenstein 4. Man with a Movie Camera (1929), dir. Vertov 5. Koyaanisqatsi ( 1982), dir. Reggio 6. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966), dir. Leone 7. Repo Man (1984), dir. Cox   MUST WATCH