Juxtaposition in Montage Movie

Abstract

Film editing is a vital part in th2Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, Tempaku, Toyohashi 441-8580, Japane post production process of a film. One of film technique is the montage editing technique, created by Sergei Eisenstein. Even so, Kuleshov’s “Effect” may be considered as the starting point of montage theory. Juxtaposition is a film editing technique that combines two or more shots to generate ideas or create thoughts. A montage can be a juxtaposition of two or more shots, but generally refers to a juxtaposition of several shots to describe a stretched event or a solidified time. This paper presents the experiment of juxtapositioning several shots in the scenes of a montage movie, In the Future, where the shots that have been sorted in the first version of this short film, then a few shots are exchanged positions in the second version then result a different story.

Keywords

• editing
• film
• kuleshov effect
• montage editing technique
• montage theory