Maher, M. 2015 The Making of the Modern Movie Montage, TheBeat, viewed 17 March 2016,
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Montage is essential in some films to progress the story. This article tells the evolution of montages. Montage was used to represent transportation through long distance or the changing of time in the time period of 1930s to 1950s. In the film Psycho (1960), Alfred Hitchcock used a three minutes’ montage to tell audience an incredible amount of story. The montage is simply made up by the shots of the road, and the over shoulder shots of Janet, from day light to dark, the time is shifting. The voice-over conversation tells audience the story already happened before. The montage here promotes the story development. The baptism montage in The Godfather (1972) uses intercut to show the power of mafia then. In 1976, Rocky, the training montage tells us the importance of the music in montage. It has to be somehow a match with the footage to create a good montage effect. The Odessa Steps sequence in Battleship Potemkin is an example of intellectual montage. When audience feels hopelessness and oppression after watching it, it is called tertium quid, it is a third thing audience gets when associating two elements. After Rocky, montage starts to be widely used in training and competition. Montage had become overused by the late 1980s especially in comedy world. Montage appears almost every genre of film.
This article outlines the evolution of montage. And gives out the examples of different time period. From transportation through distance to promoting story development, from intercuts to a series shots with incredible soundtrack, from on training movie to all kinds of training and competition movie, from one genre to all kinds of genre especially comedy.
The evolution path gives me a wider understanding on montage. The examples will also be mine learning resources. They are all very useful and supportive for my research on montage.
Montage is essential in some films to progress the story. This article tells the evolution of montages. Montage was used to represent transportation through long distance or the changing of time in the time period of 1930s to 1950s. In the film Psycho (1960), Alfred Hitchcock used a three minutes’ montage to tell audience an incredible amount of story. The montage is simply made up by the shots of the road, and the over shoulder shots of Janet, from day light to dark, the time is shifting. The voice-over conversation tells audience the story already happened before. The montage here promotes the story development. The baptism montage in The Godfather (1972) uses intercut to show the power of mafia then. In 1976, Rocky, the training montage tells us the importance of the music in montage. It has to be somehow a match with the footage to create a good montage effect. The Odessa Steps sequence in Battleship Potemkin is an example of intellectual montage. When audience feels hopelessness and oppression after watching it, it is called tertium quid, it is a third thing audience gets when associating two elements. After Rocky, montage starts to be widely used in training and competition. Montage had become overused by the late 1980s especially in comedy world. Montage appears almost every genre of film.
This article outlines the evolution of montage. And gives out the examples of different time period. From transportation through distance to promoting story development, from intercuts to a series shots with incredible soundtrack, from on training movie to all kinds of training and competition movie, from one genre to all kinds of genre especially comedy.
The evolution path gives me a wider understanding on montage. The examples will also be mine learning resources. They are all very useful and supportive for my research on montage.