Soviet Theory
Sergei Eisenstein was a soviet film director and became a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage. 'art is always conflict..it is arts task to make manifest the contradictions within the spectators mind, and to forge accurate intellectual concepts from the dynamic clash of opposing passions. The Russian approach causes the system of believability to break. The way that shots are edited together are for the ideas rather than to show a narrative taking place. A diptych of two still images enables us to explore the visual dialogue between them. The connection between the two images may not be . 'Montage of attractions' are two arbitrarily chosen images Images are chosen from the meaning implicit by an action. Metric montage- referring to the length of the shots, rhythmic montage- referring to continuity arising from the visual patterns within the shots, tonal montage- editing decisions to establish the emotion of a scene, overtonal montage-interplay of metric, rhythmic and tonal montages, |