2. ➔combining multiple shots to create a single
meaning.
➔“Montage is conflict”
➔Examples of conflict:
1.close shots & long shots
2.lightness and darkness
3.events and duration
Intellectual Montage
3. ● Japanese Cinema has no concept of a
montage
● Cinematography is, first and foremost,
montage
Cinema
4. Hieroglyphs
“Copulation of two hieroglyphs is to be
regarded not as their sum, but as their product;
a value of another dimension, another degree.”
● Separately relates to an object
● Combination refers to a concept
5. Examples
● Dog + a mouth = “to bark”
● A mouth + a child = “to scream”
● A mouth + a bird = “to sing”
● A knife + a heart = “sorrow”
6.
7. Haiku- montage phrases or short lists
The haiku is a concentrated impressionist sketch:
5-7-5 format
9. Tanka
- Tanka is a Japanese five-line poem.
- Literally means "short song"
- Example:
- "Nature means no harm
Though she brings us warnings
Quiet and with care
She does lavish us time
And would rather stay friends."
10. Tanka and Montage
- The lines are montage
phrases
- The combination of two or
three details of a material
yields a perfectly finished
representation of another kind:
psychological.
12. Unexpected Conflicts
- Conflicts between an object and its dimension
- Distorted lenses
- Conflicts between an event and its dimension
- Slow motion/Stop motion
