Editing styles and conventions

 There are many different styles of montage there is the french, soviet and Hollywood.

              

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1. In French film practice, "montage" has its literal French meaning (assembly, installation) and simply identifies editing.
2. In Soviet film making of the 1920s, "montage" was a method of juxtaposing shots to derive new meaning that did not exist in either shot alone.
3. In classical Hollywood cinema, a "montage sequence" is a short segment in a film in which narrative information is presented in a condensed fashion. This is the most common meaning among laymen                   

In Hollywood film the meaning of montage is condensing time so it would seem like it was real life and it was happening so people would think that is it not a film it was really happening to someone for example in the film UP you see and young boy who is at the cinema and he is watching a explorer and when he is walling home from the cinema he meats a girl and they in a shot space of time they are growing old together and it is going throw there life until the wife dies and goings in to the story of how he wont's to move wear they all was wonted to life since they were kids.


with the soviet montage they would get a image so it would tell one story and then they would put other images in so it would have a differnt meaning and the audienc would think that it is deffernt for exampel with lev kuleshov he maid the film juxtaposition there was a man with one exspreshion on his face and there was a image of a boll of soop a woman over a cofen and a littal girl playing with a toy and it would cut to him and then ofone of the images and people thorght that he was think that it was sad for the woman and happy for the litttal girl but he had the same fachel exspreshion.


with the French word montage it is just a meaning for editing there is nothing differnt to any other editing stial. 

                                                                                                                

Editing styles and conventions

 There are many differnt stials of montage there is they french, soviet and hollywood.

The History and developments of Post-production

With cinema it is one of the biggest industry's in the word today but Auguste Lumiere did not think so he thought that there was know future in the film industry but he was proven wrong.

in the film The life of an American fireman was done in 1903 and was very important to the film, editing and cinema because it was the first film that had two scenes shown at the same time so it was edited together so instead of having every scene just put together and the audience has go figure out what is going on in the film. With this film they would cut to each scene so you would no what is going on so in the film it would go to a house on fire then the fireman and back to the house.

One of the first editing equipment was the Moviola and it looked like a sowing machine on legs and people had to stand up and us it but it was very good for its time. With the length of film that a film would go through would be 200 hours so if the film strip was to be lad out it would go from LA to Las vegas so it would be 24 frames a second.  

I think that the past of film has given film most of what we us today for example in the film untouchables in one of the scenes a baby is going down a flight of stairs in a pram and Eisenstein done the same sequence in the film Battle ship potenkin.

One of the most interesting things in the 1940s and 1950s  they had woman doing all of the editing because all of the directors and chief editing thought that it was a woman job because it is the same as knitting so a woman was the best for the job but as soon as sound came in to film then they thought that a man should do it because it was more complected so they thought that the woman could not do it.

I think if it was not for the past of film and editing we would not have what we have today.