3. MONTAGE
Juxtaposing images by editing. Two or more
images edited together create a third thing, a
new meaning that is greater than the sum of its
individual parts.
4. "You can do anything you want with montage.
Cinema is simply pieces of film put together in a
manner that creates ideas and emotions."
Alfred Hitchcock [Interview with Charles Thomas
Samuels, 1972]
13. Point-of-View Editing:
The joining together of
a shot of a character
with a point-of-view
shot to show, in the
first shot, a character
looking, and in the
second, what the
character is looking at.
Often the point-of-
view shot is followed
by a third shot, a
reaction shot.
14. “Point-of-view shots can, but don’t always, align
viewers with characters. They help to explain
the way characters experience the world,
validate character interpretations of events, and
provide information about motivation.”
Maria Pramaggiore and Tom Wallis, Film: A Critical Introduction,
3rd ed., Pearson (2011).