Task Six - Creating a Montage

The first style of Montage we created was a Hollywood Montage which is when you condense the clips of a whole day into a short sequence that shows everything in a shorter amount of time. We used the Rocky clip as inspiration for our own Hollywood Montage. The idea behind it is to include different aspects of a certain thing.

The intention behind our Montage was to film the main parts of a school day and condense them into one short clip that sums the day up. Doing this means that we could pick out the most important parts which sum up the day. The Montage creates meaning if someone, who is not at school, is watching it they can see the main elements of a school day in a short amount of time. The use of the song in the background makes the video seem like it is going quicker as it is quite upbeat and keeps the audiences attention.

I believe that our video is a successful example of a Montage as it does everything that a Hollywood Montage should do. It is successful because you can clearly see what is happening in the video and it is easy to understand the point of it, to show a school day in a short amount of time.

The second style of Montage we created was a Soviet Montage. This is when you juxtapose two different shots that did not exist in either shot alone and put them together to create a deeper meaning.

The intention behind the Montage was to show the images of a student having problems with bullying. Filming this in the style of a Soviet Montage meant that we could juxtapose two different shots which wouldn't normally be related to emphasise the life of the student. It creates meaning as the audience can see clearly how the main character is feeling and whether or not she deals with her problems.

I believe that our example of a Soviet Montage was successful because the different shots relate well to each other even though they were completely non related. The audience can clearly see what the intentions of the film were.