EXPERIMENTATION: Montage Exercise

"montage as a means of description by placing single shots one after the other like building-blocks. The movement within these building-block shots, and the consequent length of the component pieces, was then considered as rhythm."

Eisenstein, 1949

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This was my experimentation exercise for week three where we spent time studying theories of montage. I filmed my journey into university and edited the clips together, juxtaposing the images through montage. Even though I mainly shot inanimate objects I found myself putting a lot of focus on the clips which had people in them, playing around with going back and forth from these clips and trying to create a new narrative of my own making through the technique of montage. Through this process I had Eisenstein's theory of montage playing through my head and was very much trying to replicate some of his ideas.