Narrative Mode (1) Multiform -- Single Event with Multiple Perspectives Temporal Space -- how montage glues and forms space in time. The Battleship Potemkin (1925), Sergei Eisenstein "The Odessa Staircase" sequence Eisentein's Montage Theory: Metric - where the editing follows a specific number of frames (based purely on the physical nature of time), cutting to the next shot no matter what is happening within the image. This montage is used to elicit the most basal and emotional of reactions in the audience. Rhythmic - includes cutting based on time, but using the visual composition of the shots -- along with a change in the speed of the metric cuts -- to induce more complex meanings than what is possible with metric montage. Tonal - a tonal montage uses the emotional meaning of the shots -- not just manipulating the temporal length of the cuts or its rhythmical characteristics -- to elicit a reaction from the audience even more complex than from the metric or rhythmic montage. Overtonal/Associational - the overtonal montage is the cumulation of metric, rhythmic, and tonal montage to synthesize its effect on the audience for an even more abstract and complicated effect. Intellectual - uses shots (static shots of objects, symbols) which, combined, elicit an intellectual meaning.
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