IF CUTTING IS PROSE, THEN MONTAGE IS POETRY

‘If cutting is prose, then montage is poetry’ to understand this line we first need to understand what is montage? Montage is a way of understanding and creating cinema which is totally dependent upon editing. In 1920 Soviet film makers used to view the montages marks a new note in the approach of film cinema. Montage can be called as the nerve of cinema and determining the nature of montage. Eisenstein’s view regarding montage was that it arises from collision of thoughts where there is element perceived not in the next but on the top of other. Editing in graphic qualities, violations and creation of the impossible nothings gave birth to new technologies. There are changes in the shots which are mostly used in the Hollywood to grasp the attention of their viewers. It’s all about storytelling and poetry.

As there are lot of variations in the prose same way in poetry there are lot of decorative rhymes which has a greater meaning. Story is a long one compared to a poem. It’s just an art if adding and a new revolution in film studies which gives the viewers a chance to learn, interpret and create a better world of understanding. Montage can be seen in almost every films of today’s era, it’s used to make the story attractive and consume less time. Montage includes all i.e. story, prose, poetry which has certain meaning and which speaks more with the feeling.

            There are five methods in montage namely metric, rhythmic, tonal, overtone, intellectual. Montage is said to be a conflict as there are new ideas emerging, a totally new perception of individual gets explored.