Reflections about montages
Montages? It's kinda like a vein in film editing for my perspective. Mostly, montages are quite effective to let audience know what is going to happen and what were happened before in a short amount of time.
Here is some montages what I had learned in class ;
-Metric montage
-Tonal montage
-Over tonal montage
-Rhythmic montage
-Intellectual Montage
-Mood montage
I have a lot of montages what I like in several movies. Now I would like to show some of it.
Click the link below-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELmykDQa6Yw
This is a chasing scene from Ong Bak (a Tony Jaa's film). In this scene we can see what a metric montage is. In this scene, shots were joined together according to their length. And then, the content is determined by the absolute length of the sequence. And we can find a lot of flashback in it.
According to our local industry in Myanmar, I find out that tonal montages are quite popular as well. Because of the popularity of drama movies in our country. Basically, a tonal montage is something about presenting emotions in a way of indirect. Let say, if a film maker would like to show the audience that a bad guy(villain) raped the girl( actress), he will immediately show the montage of a shoe smashing a rose instead of showing directly with actors. Another example of tonal montage what we can usually see in our Burmese movies is like showing a pot of water was dropping and cracking by a pair of hands to let the audience know that somebody is dead. And then, another montage what we can see mostly in our local industry is mood montage. For example, showing hands with beer to show a celebration or showing a girl walking alone in a raining night etc.
Montages? It's kinda like a vein in film editing for my perspective. Mostly, montages are quite effective to let audience know what is going to happen and what were happened before in a short amount of time.
Here is some montages what I had learned in class ;
-Metric montage
-Tonal montage
-Over tonal montage
-Rhythmic montage
-Intellectual Montage
-Mood montage
I have a lot of montages what I like in several movies. Now I would like to show some of it.
Click the link below-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELmykDQa6Yw
This is a chasing scene from Ong Bak (a Tony Jaa's film). In this scene we can see what a metric montage is. In this scene, shots were joined together according to their length. And then, the content is determined by the absolute length of the sequence. And we can find a lot of flashback in it.
According to our local industry in Myanmar, I find out that tonal montages are quite popular as well. Because of the popularity of drama movies in our country. Basically, a tonal montage is something about presenting emotions in a way of indirect. Let say, if a film maker would like to show the audience that a bad guy(villain) raped the girl( actress), he will immediately show the montage of a shoe smashing a rose instead of showing directly with actors. Another example of tonal montage what we can usually see in our Burmese movies is like showing a pot of water was dropping and cracking by a pair of hands to let the audience know that somebody is dead. And then, another montage what we can see mostly in our local industry is mood montage. For example, showing hands with beer to show a celebration or showing a girl walking alone in a raining night etc.
