Introduction to cross montage

Crossed montage quickly and frequently cuts together two or more plot lines that occur in different regions at the same time. The development of one clue often affects other clues, and each clue depends on each other and finally merges together. This editing technique can easily cause suspense, create a tense and intense atmosphere, and strengthen the sharpness of contradictions and conflicts. It is a powerful way to master the emotions of the audience. Thriller films, horror films and war films often use this method to create chase and thrilling scenes. For example, in the "War of Expedition to the North", the three lines of our army and the enemy marching to the Dasha River and the guerrillas bombing the dam were alternately spliced together, showing that thrilling battle.

The use of montage can make the connection of shots have a new meaning. Montage is a means to connect the cut lens groups. Therefore, montage is a means to link the shots taken by the camera according to the logic of life, the order of reasoning, the author's viewpoint tendency and its aesthetic principles. First, it uses a camera, and then it uses editing. Eisenstein, a movie master of the Soviet Union, thinks that lens A plus lens B is not a simple synthesis of lens A and lens B, but will become a brand-new content and concept of lens C. He clearly pointed out: "The juxtaposition of two montage shots is not the sum of two numbers, but more like the product of two numbers-this fact was correct before, and it still seems correct today. The reason why it is more like the product of two numbers than the sum of two numbers is that the result of arrangement is always different from each individual component in quality (in "dimension" if you are willing to use mathematical terms). Let's give another example. Woman-this is a picture, the mourning of a woman-this is also a picture; These two pictures can be expressed in kind. The' widow' produced by the juxtaposition of these two pictures is no longer something that can be expressed in kind, but a new representation, a new concept and a new image. "

for the audience, montage is from points to points. Montage for the director, montage is first divided into parts, that is, cutting, and then divided into parts, that is, combining. Bela Balazs, a Hungarian film theorist, also pointed out: "Once the last shot is connected, the unusually rich meanings hidden in each shot are emitted like electric sparks." It can be seen that this kind of "electric spark"-like meaning is "latent" by a single lens that people are unaware of. Only after "combination" can people have a new and special imagination. When we talk about montage, we first refer to the combination relationship between lenses, including the combination relationship between time and space, sound and picture, picture and color. And the significance and function produced by these connection relationships.

In a word, "montage is the connection method of the film. The whole film has a structure, and every chapter, paragraph and paragraph should also have a structure. In the film, this connection method is called montage. In fact, that is, the shots are grouped into a segment, then the short segments are grouped into a large segment, and then the large segments are organized into a movie. There is no mystery or trick in this process, which conforms to the logic of rationality and sensibility, the logic of life and vision, and looks' smooth',' reasonable', rhythmic and comfortable. This is a brilliant montage, and vice versa. There is no such simple and easy-to-understand explanation and elaboration of montage. Carbon and diamond are the same in terms of their molecular composition. But one is surprisingly crisp, and the other is extremely hard. Why? The results of scientists' research prove that it is caused by the different molecular arrangement (character structure). That is to say, the same materials, due to different arrangements, may produce such diametrically opposite results, which is really thought-provoking.