CIN 2101 Lecture Notes - Dziga Vertov, Soviet Montage Theory, Nota Bene
4 Mar 2013
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"shocks" and contradictions conveyed through a conflictual editing and traditional narrative. Film viewing is complex one type of editing/shocks etc doesn"t have the same affect on. Dziga vertov. (sidenote: in battleship, the director was a fan of. Three identical shots used those in combination with three other shots (food, corpse, naked woman). He asked people what they saw, and they saw different expressions each time. The filmmaker saw that what was producing reaction wasn"t the shot itself, but what the shot was paired with. Relies on the relationship between two different shots, not the shot itself. Here, montage creates the actor"s expression, as well as an imaginary time, space, and action. It relies on the basic principle of montage, which is very specific to the film medium. By combining different shots, a filmmaker can construct a time and space that did not exist before. Spectators rely more on the place and the relation between shots than on the shots themselves.
