Task Six - Creating a Montage

In this task I will explaining the two montages that our team have made. Also describing the style of our Montage, the intention behind of our Montage, how our Montage make meaning and whether if it was successful.

Hollywood Montage

The montage shown below is a Hollywood montage. This is meant that a combination of shots are often fast paced, which compresses the time and will give more information about the scene in a relatively short period of time. The meaning behind our montage is displaying the character revising and working. In the scene, you see her flicking through the book, writing down notes then typing up what she had written. This gives meaning as the audience will know what she is doing without directly scripting it or showing the whole scene. Also, this was shot in a few seconds, yet nothing was missing, which makes the audience feel like they were part of the scene taking place. This is an effective resource as directors can cut a long scene diffeinto a short shot as it fills in the gaps of a process occurring, but also giving a positive effect to the audience as they can see what is going on throughout the film in these short shots. 

The intention behind our montage was to create a small film, of the key activates of a school day and summarise them into one short film, which consumes the whole day. By doing this, we are able to pick and chooses out the most important parts that sums up the day. 

This montage creates meaning by describing the whole school day in one shot film, if the film was shown to someone, they would understand the meaning of the school day. 

My team and I believe that our video is a successful specimen for a montage as it fully fills the requirement of a Hollywood Montage. But not only my team and I agree, the other pupils and teacher in our class agree that it represent a Hollywood Montage but in a different scenario.

Soviet Montage

The second style of montage shown below is a Soviet Montage. This is meant that, when you contrast two different images or shots, which did not occur in both shot alone and but when composed them together, it makes a ruthless meaning.

The intention behind our montage was to create a small shot, which shows the images of a school day being like prison. When making the video, we filmed it in the Soviet type of style montage, this intended that we could juxtapose (compare) the two different types of shots or images that will not normally be associated to highlight the school day. It creates meaning as the spectators can see clearly how the characters are being bested like prisoner.

My team and I believe that our video is a successful specimen for a montage as it fully fills the requirement of a Soviet Montage because the shots that don’t coexist creates meaning . But not only my team and I agree, the other pupils and teacher in our class agree that it represent a Soviet Montage but in a different scenario.