What does montage mean in movies?

Montage means "splicing" in French, but it has developed into a theory of lens combination in movies in Russia, and it is also a unique artistic technique, which is the meaning of freestyle painting in paint and painting industries. When different lenses are spliced together, they often have special meanings that each lens does not have when it exists alone.

Montage originally refers to the relationship between images. After the appearance of audio movies and color movies, the application of montage has a broader world in images and sounds (human voice, acoustics, music), sounds and sounds, colors and colors, light and shadow, etc.

There are many names of montage, so far there is no clear grammatical norm and classification, but the film industry generally tends to be divided into three categories: narrative, lyrical and rational (including symbol, contrast and metaphor).

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When the Lumiere brothers made the earliest film in history at the end of 19, they didn't need to consider montage at all. Because he always puts the camera in a fixed position, that is, the panoramic distance, and shoots people's movements from beginning to end. Later, it was found that the film could be cut and then bonded with drugs, so some people tried to put the camera in different positions and shoot from different distances and angles.

They found that all kinds of lenses can produce amazing different effects by different connection methods. This is the beginning of montage, and it is also the beginning of the film getting rid of the shackles of narrative and expressive means of stage play and having its own independent means.

Generally speaking, in the history of film, the creation of shot shooting is attributed to Edwin Porter of the United States, who thinks that great train robbery shown in 1903 is the beginning of "film" in the modern sense.

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