Montage

To understand the concept of montage, you must first appreciate the man who invented the technique: Sergei Eisenstein. Sergei began his career in an ideal moment in history, a time when cinematographers were utilized to relay to the general public the war that was happening around them. Sergei was a very gifted cinematographer, known for his 'intellectual montage' skills. his films, such asLa destrucción de Oaxaca (Documentary short) 

 1930Sentimental Romance (Short) (as S. M. Eisenstein) 

 1929Gore i radost zhenshchiny 

 1929The Storming of La Sarraz 

 1929Old and New 

 1928October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (as S. M. Eisenstein) 

 1925Battleship Potemkin (as S.M. Eisenstein) 

 1925Strike 

 1923

Dnevnik Glumova (Short) 


perhaps his most well known film, Battleship Potemkin represents one of his best works in development of the montage technique. Montage focuses on emotion, not time. Eisenstein spends ten minutes on a scene that only lasts two, just to demonstrate the general feelings of the people in it. Abby Peek and I decided to do our montage as a promo for our school's Musical, The Wizard of Oz. we wanted to not only capture the essence of the show, but resurrect a nostalgic emotion that everyone felt when they watched the movie as a child.