What does montage mean?

Montage art is a theory and technology of lens combination in movies.

Montage art is a theory developed by Russian directors, which was extended by pudovkin according to the editing technique of Griffith, the father of American movies, and then Eisenstein also put forward the view of relevance. Platts thinks that the juxtaposition of two shots is more meaningful than the juxtaposition of a single shot, and even thinks that movies are the art of juxtaposition of shots.

At least with perspective and many close contacts, psychological, emotional and abstract ideas come into being. Influenced by Russian dialectical philosophy, Eisenstein believes that the juxtaposition and even fierce conflict between shots will produce a third new meaning. When describing a theme, we can put a series of related or unrelated shots together to produce a metaphorical effect, which is montage.

Development:

In 1950s and 1960s, long shots were widely used, especially TV reporting technology, which contributed to this trend. The depth arrangement of complex scenes in feature films is developing day by day. This kind of scene scheduling does not need to change the action location, which changes the nature of traditional montage. Film theorists believe that the evolution of this montage marks a new era in film history.

Montage also exists in TV, even if it is a live event for TV viewers, such as ship launching, sports competition or delegation arrival. , must be edited on the spot. This kind of live editing requires TV photographers and directors to have special qualities, be able to immediately discover and accurately express the essence of events, and have more keen montage thinking and montage vision.