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Film Short: Montage Project Name:_____________
What does Montage mean?
The word Montage comes from the French verb monter “to put together”).
Montage can be used to describe a wide range of creative practices that
could include photography, film, and sound. Assembling techniques can
include but are not limited to repetition, juxtaposition, sequencing,
appropriation, and manipulation.
Montage is often associated with time-based media (film, video, and sound),
but by definition has a broader range of meaning. Emphasis is placed on the
stages of creation, the elements and principles of media arts and how ideas
can be communicated and constructed through both visual media and sound.
Art of Editing – Collision Montage
Sergei Eisenstein (Battleship Potemkin 1925) – placed special emphasis on
the art of editing. He believed that editing ought to be dialectic:
The conflict of two shots ( thesis and antithesis ) produces a wholly new idea:
( synthesis ). In film terms, the conflict between shot A and shot B is not AB
but a qualitatively new factor – C.
Transitions between shots should not be flowing, but sharp, jolting, even
violent. For Eisenstein, editing produces hard collisions, not subtle linkages.
A smooth transition, he claimed was an opportunity lost.
STEP ONE: RESEARCH on the internet the following Film and Assembling
Terminology definitions on the next sheet.
STEP TWO: SELECT a theme for your Short 3-4 minute Montage film.
(Man Vs. Society, Man Vs. Nature, Love/Death, Life Vs. Death, Time & Space)
STEP THREE: LOOK at the folder on K:/Mr.Arnett/ASM 3M/Unit 4/Royalty
Free Video Files and begin viewing the various digital video footage.
STEP FOUR: LOOK at the folder on K:/Mr.Arnett/ASM3M/Unit 2/
Sounds and begin viewing the various sound footage.
STEP FIVE: SOUND: Your short montage film must include some kind of voice
over and can include sound and music samples.
STEP SIX: STORYBOARD out your short film using only the footage at
the above address. Consider the terminology you researched above in
your project – Collision montage, juxtaposition, repetition etc.
STEP SEVEN: EDIT: Using either Windows Movie Maker or Adobe Premiere
begin editing together your digital footage to create your short montage based on
your chosen theme. Your finished short montage film should express both your
technical abilities as well as present and express your own aesthetic language
and observations through motion and sound.
STEP EIGHT: REFLECT on your short montage film is finished answer the
following questions in your Media Arts Journal:
1. What aspect of your film do you find most successful and why?
2. What aspect of your film do you find least successful and why?
3. If you could do this project again, what changes would you make to improve
it?
The Battleship Potemkin ( 1925)
(Sergi Eisenstin)
The boots of the Tsarist soldiers
shown marching down the Odessa
Steps.
K/U: Film & Assembling Terminology /10 Name:_____________
Montage:
Collision Montage:
Dialectic:
Thesis:
Antithesis:
Synthesis:
Repetition:
Juxtaposition:
Sequencing:
Manipulation:
Film Short Montage: Storyboard Evaluation Name:______________
Achievement
Criteria
Level 0 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4
Thinking/
Inquiry
Concept & Meaning: Montage Theme
Incomplete.
0
Concept is unclear and/or weak. Meaning or ideas conveyed are not on par with student’s grade level.
Concept is slightly unclear and/or weak. Meaning or ideas conveyed are below expectations for student’s grade level. 0.25 – 0.
Concept is clear and valid. Meaning or ideas conveyed are on par with student’s grade level. 0.50 - 0.
Concept is clear and strong. Meaning or ideas conveyed are above expectations for student’s grade level. 1
Knowledge/
Understanding
Storyboard Design Process: Develop and apply a variety of approaches to communicate ideas and solve problems
Film Assembling Techniques: (Montage, Collision Montage, Juxtaposition, Repetition, Voice Over, Sound, Music etc.)
Incomplete. 0
Incomplete. 0
Limited demonstration of understanding the design process. 0.25-0.
Limited demonstration of understanding of film assembling techniques while composing storyboard.
0.25-0.
Some demonstration of understanding the design process. 0.5-
Some demonstration of understanding of film assembling techniques while composing storyboard.
0.5-
Considerable demonstration of understanding the design process. 1.0-1.
Considerable demonstration of understanding of film assembling techniques while composing storyboard.
1.0-1.
Superior demonstration of understanding the design process. 2
Superior demonstration of understanding of film assembling techniques while composing storyboard.
2
Application/
Creation
Demonstration of Design and Creation Processes and following procedures: Storyboard Design: Film Assembling Techniques
Work does not meet assignment expectations for this category of assessment. Incomplete. 0
Limited demonstration of the design and creation processes and following procedures; Transfers concepts, skills, and procedures to image(s) with limited effectiveness. 5
Some demonstration of the design and creation processes and following procedures; Transfers concepts, skills, and procedures to image(s) with moderate effectiveness.
6-6.
Considerable demonstration of the design and creation processes and following procedures; Transfers concepts, skills, and procedures to image(s) with considerable effectiveness.
7-7.
Superior demonstration of the design and creation processes and following procedures; Transfers concepts, skills, and procedures to image(s) with a high degree of effectiveness.
8-
Communication
Clarity of concept: Theme
Clarity of concepts: Film Assembling Techniques
Incomplete.
0
Incomplete.
0
Work demonstrates a limited degree of clarity. 0.25-0.
Work demonstrates a limited degree of clarity in concepts of film assembling techniques. 0.25-0.
Work demonstrates some degree of clarity. 0.5-
Work demonstrates some degree of clarity in concepts of film assembling techniques.. 0.5-
Work demonstrates considerable degree of clarity. 1.0-1.
Work demonstrates considerable degree of clarity in concepts of film assembling techniques. 1.0-1.
Work demonstrates a high degree of clarity. 2
Work demonstrates a high degree of clarity in concepts of film assembling techniques. 2
Film Short Montage: Final & Reflective Questions Evaluation Name:___________
Achievement
Criteria
Level 0 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4
Knowledge/
Understanding
Design Process: Develop and apply a variety of approaches to communicate ideas and solve problems
Film Assembling Techniques: (Montage, Collision Montage, Juxtaposition, Repetition, Voice Over, Sound, Music etc.)
Media Arts Journal: Project Questions: Reflective
Incomplet e. 0
Incomplet e. 0
Incomplet e. 0
Limited demonstration of understanding the design process. 0.25-0.
Limited demonstration of understanding of film assembling techniques while composing storyboard. 0.25-0.
Poor, yes/no answers/limited incomplete.
Some demonstration of understanding the design process. 0.5-
Some demonstration of understanding of film assembling techniques while composing storyboard. 0.5-
Somewhat coherent and somewhat complete. 0.5-
Considerable demonstration of understanding the design process. 1.0-1.
Considerable demonstration of understanding of film assembling techniques while composing storyboard. 1.0-1.
Clear and substantial answers.
1.0-1.
Superior demonstration of understanding the design process. 2
Superior demonstration of understanding of film assembling techniques while composing storyboard. 2
Superior and insightful answers.
2
Application/
Creation
Demonstration of the Design and Creation Processes and following procedures: Film Assembling Techniques: (Montage, Collision Montage, Juxtaposition, Repetition, Voice Over, Sound, Music etc.)
Work does not meet assignme nt expectatio ns for this category of assessme nt. Incomplet e. 0
Limited demonstration of the design and creation processes and following procedures; Transfers concepts, skills, and procedures to image(s) with limited effectiveness. 5
Some demonstration of the design and creation processes and following procedures; Transfers concepts, skills, and procedures to image(s) with moderate effectiveness.
Considerable demonstration of the design and creation processes and following procedures; Transfers concepts, skills, and procedures to image(s) with considerable effectiveness.
Superior demonstration of the design and creation processes and following procedures; Transfers concepts, skills, and procedures to image(s) with a high degree of effectiveness.
8-
Communication
Clarity of concept: Theme
Clarity of concepts: Film Assembling Techniques
Incomplet e. 0
Incomplet e. 0
Work demonstrates a limited degree of clarity. 0.25-0.
Work demonstrates a limited degree of clarity in concepts of film assembling techniques. 0.25-0.
Work demonstrates some degree of clarity. 0.5-
Work demonstrates some degree of clarity in concepts of film assembling techniques.. 0.5-
Work demonstrates considerable degree of clarity. 1.0-1.
Work demonstrates considerable degree of clarity in concepts of film assembling techniques. 1.0-1.
Work demonstrates a high degree of clarity. 2
Work demonstrates a high degree of clarity in concepts of film assembling techniques.
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