What exactly is a montage? I hope there is a popular explanation.

When different lenses are spliced together, they often have special meanings that each lens does not have when it exists alone. This writing is also called montage.

1, montage means "splicing" in French, but it has developed into the theory of lens combination in movies in Russia. Montage is also a unique artistic technique, which means freestyle painting in paint and painting industries.

2, montage composition technique:

Montage generally includes two aspects: picture editing and picture synthesis. Picture synthesis: a unified picture work made up of many pictures or patterns juxtaposed or superimposed. Screen editing: The way or process of making this artistic combination is to arrange and combine a series of shots taken at different locations, different distances and different angles, and describe the plot and portray the characters.

3. Importance:

When different lens groups are connected together, it often produces meanings that are not available when each lens exists alone. For example, the scene of Chaplin driving workers into the factory gate is connected with the scene of being driven by sheep; Pudovkin connected the scene of melting glaciers in spring with the scene of workers' demonstrations, which made the original scene take on a new meaning. Eisenstein believes that when opposite shots are connected together, the effect is "not the sum of two numbers, but the product of two numbers".

With the help of montage, movies enjoy great freedom of time and space, and even form movie time and space that are inconsistent with real life time and space. Montage can produce a third action besides the actor's action and the camera action, thus affecting the rhythm of the film. As early as the film came out, American directors, especially Griffith, noticed the role of film montage. Later Soviet directors Kuleshov, Eisenstein and pudovkin successively discussed and summarized the laws and theories of montage, and formed the montage school. Their related works have had a far-reaching impact on film creation.

4. Classification:

Montage has two functions: narrative and ideographic. Accordingly, we can divide montage into three basic types:

(1) narrative montage, performance montage, intellectual montage.

(2) Among them, the first one is narrative means, and the latter two are mainly used to express meaning. On this basis, it can also be divided into two levels, as follows:

Narrative montage (parallel montage, cross montage, repeated montage, continuous montage), performance montage (lyric montage, psychological montage, metaphor montage, contrast montage), intellectual montage (juggling montage, reflection montage, thought montage).

Extended data:

The main functions of montage are:

(1) Through the cutting and combination of shots, scenes and paragraphs, the material is selected and accepted, so that the performance content is clear and clear, and it is highly summarized and concentrated.

(2) Guide the audience's attention and stimulate the audience's association. Although each shot only shows a certain content, a certain shot sequence can standardize and guide the audience's emotions and psychology and inspire the audience to think.

(3) Create a unique time and space for film and television. Every shot is a record of real time and space. After editing, the time and space are reconstructed to form a unique film and television time and space.

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