

This technique has been changed the way of making films with the means of editing techniques. The montage sequence often used the short shots with optical effects like fade, dissolve, slit screen, double exposure. Later this technique was used by Britain and American studios to show the “montage sequence” to suggest the passage of time. Montage originally originated from Russia by Eisenstein where it was used to create symbolism. This term has been used in a different context such as in French the term montage use in cinema simply in terms of editing. Montage is a technique of film editing in which short shots are sequenced to condense space, time and information. Eisenstein wanted to move the audience’s emotions and inspire them to get behind the revolution. They believed in the dialectic system which was about the conflict between the ideas. Filmmakers like Dziga Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein did not believe in the continuity system of shots in cinema they thought it make reality fake. He wrote a book called Film Forms, where he emphasized how the duration and movement of a shot, and emotions can affect the audience. He considered the montage a nerve of cinema. Kuleshov ExperimentĮinsenstine was the biggest theorist of the Montage. If you see that you will notice the face of the man was the same, it means one footage has been used for different elements and it looked exactly the same as we perceived it. Eventually, casket replaced by an attractive woman and people thinks he must want something desirable. Now when the soup bowl replaced by casket they think he must be sad as a child died. When the audience saw that they assumed the man, the soup bowl, again saw that man then figure out he must be hungry and want soup. In his experiment audience saw the close of a man followed by Soup Bowl, Casket and an attractive woman. His theory is also known as the “Kuleshov Experiment”. Lev Kuleshov realized that an actor’s expression wasn’t enough to convey a specific idea, therefore juxtaposed images must. Lev Kuleshov was the pioneer in the Filmmaking theory. At that time what they decide was using pieces of films from prior projects and presented them in a different way with a different meaning.

During the years of the Russian Revolution, the filmmaker has been found themselves short for supplying of cinema. The Soviet montage movement began nearly in 1924. Soviet montage is an approach to understand and create a cinema that relies on editing or montage.
