What does montage mean?

Montage (French: montage) is a transliteration loan word, originally an architectural term, meaning combination and assembly. Commonly used in three artistic fields, it can be interpreted as an intentional manual collage and editing technique in time and space. It was first extended to film art, and later widely used in derivative fields such as visual art.

Montage is one of the main narrative and expressive means of film creation, which is different from the expression of long-shot movies. That is, a series of shots taken from different distances and angles in different places. In a broad sense, montage is editing, that is, editing some shots into a movie plot and portraying characters. With the help of montage,

Movies enjoy great freedom in time and space, and can even constitute a movie time and space that is inconsistent with the time and space in real life. Montage can produce "the third action" besides the actor's action and the camera action, thus affecting the rhythm and narrative style of the film.

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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.

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