E.D Montage

This is where a whole load of shots are put together into a short sequence which is called a montage. It’s to speed up time rather than having to show and explain everything bit by bit. It can skip through a whole year in just a few minutes by showing snippets of what goes on so the audience can understand. They are not used to show emotion they don't make the audience feel much they just show them things they need to know. It is creating a film inside a film but a much shorter one; it gives the element of time. I think film makers use this technique so they can spend more time on more important scenes that need to be shown in more detail, but other scenes still need to be in the film so this is why it’s made much shorter in the form of montage. I think it looks good in films if it’s done right and not too much is crammed in at once. However it can go wrong and completely confuse the audience or be used too much that the audience don't feel a connection to the characters. In many ways a trailer for a film is a montage, because it shows scenes sometimes the best ones and helps people decided whether to watch it or not. It’s the plot of the film put into a few minutes to give you a taste of what you could be watching. However in the film you see everything. Montage was influenced by a famous editor called Edwin Porter, he made it possible for different shots to all be put together and look related in a film, therefore letting the audience deduce their own meaning on the shots. A Russian film maker Einstein worked to make porters principal further, he thought that using this technique would produce a better response from the audience. He called his version of porters' theory 'the intellectual montage'. Porter says his way gives the audience direct emotions, unlike Einstein’s.