Unit 22 - Camera and meaning assessment extended Re-submission (to get the distinction)

There is a huge difference between Continuity and montage, because continuity is more a like a mainstream of normality, it focuses on the drama and the story along with other things such as time and space, closed ending, therefore the film could be straight forward with a beginning middle and end and the audience will know that the movie has finished, using continuity editing by telling a linear narrative such as horror/thriller and above all this it doesn't make the audience think.

Montage is an alternative way that will make the audience think and become confused because it is deliberately breaking continuity with jump cuts to show supernatural actions, along with flashbacks, open endings, therefore the film will end in a cliff hanger and the audience won't know if the film has ended therefore it leaves the audience unsatisfied, it's more challenging to follow and it's all done for an artistic reason, to create emotions.

 This all started because there was a war between the USR and USA which was being represented by Griffith and Eisenstein. Now today continuity is being used more because the audience doesn't always want to think, they would want to enjoy the movie alone, however there is a some sign on montage to make the film interesting and exciting.


 

Visual Decay starts off with slow creepy music to create tension then it has a lot of close ups to the things he is doing such as putting his shirt on, putting his tie on and putting his gloves on to bring in the audience attention to what he is doing. It also has a jump cut when he is putting on his glove to show that he isn't normal. This is montage editing because it makes you think.

Having off colour socks on shows he is not steady and not well



This is a mid shot of the man with a box over his head and three pictures behind him of something will be explaining about in the next shot. This is montage because it makes the audience think more deeper and wonder why does he have a box over his head.


At 1:12 we have jump cuts show that he isn't normal therefore he could be demonic or supernatural, because of these jump cuts the audience will think that. The fact that when the jump cuts are happening a man on TV is talking however the man's voice isn't jump cutting or cutting off at any point through the jump cuts which proves to the audience the character is demonic.


To show his mood there is numerous of jump cuts when he is shaking his head. First it shows at a mid shot then switches to different angles to view both sides of his head then goes back to mid shot.


Here is a close up on the face that has been drawn on the box to make the audience think why is that happening or is that really his facial expressions. Also the close up is to show that their is no holes through the eyes therefore he cant see through it. There is no holes in the box for him to breather, so it makes the audience think is this character human.


There is a high angle of the box showing that there is an 'X' mark at the top of it which resembles danger or target.


We have a close up of the photos on the wall behind him. The photos are of other TV's probably from the past. There are extreme close ups on the images but they don't do an extreme close up on the TV that is smashed, therefore the character probably breaks the TV when he sees a channel that makes him angry.



The narrative of this is that he will repeat the whole thing the next day because i think what evr show the TV cuts out on he has to stay with that emotion for the rest of the day, therefore if it lands on a happy show he will get his features back, however it's always ending on a sad show which causes him to break the TV sometimes.

This short film is montage editing because it deliberately breaks continuity because it's challenging it makes the audience think, it's not just for entertainment. The audience feels unsatisfied by the ending because it's an open ending, therefore they don't know what is going to happen next. Also because it had numerous of jump cuts in there.




Nolan uses montage in an artistic style for entertainment in Hollywood. The french wasn't annoyed because they respected Hitchcock but they wanted to keep it authentic and for it not to be all about entertainment, just wanted people to think about their movies, they was worried because they thought they was taking the artistic value for montage and the original purpose of it.
Nolan uses discontinuous editing in the most of his films, he also uses cross cutting in his movies to build suspense towards the climax. Nolan also tells his stories in a non-linear narrative through discontinuous editing style of element. In his editing he tricks the audience to make them confused on what is happening. The movies feature timelines that are edited together but just color different timelines.

Tarantino is a film director, producer, screen writer, photographer and actor. The films he was known for were Reservoir Dogs, Pulp fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill bill and Inglorious bastards. Tarantino used montage to create and artistic effect. In Pulp fiction he uses close ups and the tempo slows down with the rhythm because Tarantino wanted to create tension; using close ups to show their facial expressions to show that they are nervous on what is going to happen.

1. Inglorious Bastards


 Inglorious Bastards was made by Tarantino. This scene manipulates time because it goes back in time like flashbacks to show who Hugo Stieglitz is.It also creates motivation when he calls his name in prison. In the image below he uses high angles show that he is weak and helpless and the person who is higher than him is more dominant.



2. Death Proof


Death proof was made by Tarantino. At the beginning when the three girls was chasing after the man in the car the tempo was increased because it was a chase; along with the music which also increased as well because the pace got faster because it was a chase. It manipulated space because the space between them was very little when they was attacking him.