Soviet Montage and Discontinuity Editing Flashcards
Montage
Soviet artist practices that assembled images that relate to each other in some way to create a single work or part of a work of art
Kino-Eye: Dziga Vertov
assembling film fragments and editing them together
The possibility that the film was able to capture what was inaccessible to the human eye by
Kuleshov Effect
It suggested that 2 shots in a sequence are more impactful than a single shot by itself
Dialectical montage:
the effect when the juxtaposition of 2 shots that reflect some kind of conflict, has the potential to make an abstract concept tangible
Overlapping Editing:
A technique in editing where the second shot repeats part or all of the action from the previous shot, often resulting in temporal expansion.
POV editing structure:
Point/glance shot: shot of a character looking, often offscreen
Point/object shot: shot of the character or object that the character is looking at.
Spatial Discontinuity:
Places emphasis upon creating spatial and temporal discontinuities
Average shot length [ASL] for Soviet films
2-4 seconds, compared to other film of 5-6 seconds
Five Basic Methods of Montage
metric
rhythmic
tonal
overtonal
Metric:
Cuts based on frame count to convey tempo and emotional tension.
Rhythmic
Cuts based on action pace to convey continuity and dynamic flow.
tonal
Cuts based on shared tone to convey emotional resonance or connection.
intellectual or dialectical:
cuts based on juxtaposition or collision of shots to convey ideas, conceptual connections, thought-provoking contrasts.
overtonal
Combination of elements from metric, rhythmic, tonal, and intellectual montage elements to convey complex emotions and deeper meanings.
editing techniques
jump cut
crosscut
overlapping editing
intelectual or dialectical montage
dialectical editing
