The document discusses Sergei Eisenstein's theory of the ideogram and cinematographic principle. It provides examples of how combining independent images or "shots" can create new meaning beyond the simple sum of their parts. A haiku uses two lines describing a crow and leafless bough to convey the setting of one autumn eve. Another haiku shows an evening breeze blowing, water rippling, and a blue heron's legs to demonstrate how montage derives meaning from the collision of opposing or independent shots or images.

1. Question Three The Cinematographic Principle and the Ideogram

2. Ideogram Two objects, when placed together, become a concept which is regarded not as their sum but as their product, a value of another dimension.

3. A lonely crow On leafless bough, One autumn eve. The first two lines are “material” shots. Combining these two lines together with the last line, autumn eve, there is meaning given to the haiku.

4. An evening breeze blows. The water ripples Against the blue heron’s legs.

5. Montage is an idea that arises from the collision of independent shots – shots even opposite to one another: the dramatic principle. ~ Eisenstein