Editing Styles & Conventions

The definition of montage.

Montage is directly translated from the French as ''putting together''

(Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montage)

Currently there are 2 main types of montage being used within the film industry. These are Soviet and Hollywood.

Typically, the Soviet montage during the 1920's allowed pictures that didn't directly relate to one another to be placed together to create a third meaning within the original pictures when they were being observed alone.

A Hollywood montage usually shows time from the beginning to the end of the particular sequence. This can be seen in a recent children's film called ''UP''. One of the main characters' life is used in a montage to let the audience feel that they know about the main character, who is an elderly man throughout the film. The montage allows the film to start whilst pinpointing the most important point of the elderly man's life.

Continuity editing ensures that there are particular objects or actions that continue through an edit. The use of continuity editing allows the audience to get more involved in the film as the edits become less and less visible. For example, if a main character had a green apple in his left hand, continuity would make sure that it stayed in his left hand and didn't change colour or have any bites out of it.