Research Task - Lev Kuleshov and Sergei Eisenstein

The video above shows a scene with a montage in it by Sergei Eisenstein - showing juxtaposing images by editing - it is a sequence of various images, that are meant to 'arouse both emotion and idealogical consciousness among the film's viewers'. Eisenstein, in his introductory essay, describes five methods of montage 'Word and Image' - these are the 5 elements of montage theory. His montage theories are all based around the idea that montage originates around the 'collision' between different camera shots, in an illustration of the idea based around thesis and antithesis.
(Thesis - an intellectual proposition,
Antithesis - the opposite - a reaction to the proposition)

The 5 levels of montage:

1st: Metric Montage
- the length or duration of each piece of film (e.g uneven length clips that could be edited together to make the montage faster and look more 'hectic')
2nd: Rhythmic Structure
- the film maker can add the complexity that they should not have in the Metric aspect of the montage. (The content of the shots become just as important as the metrical arrangement.)
3rd: Tonal Montage
- 'the film maker can insert a sense of melody in order to produce a sense of emotion' - you can do this in various ways, like for example lighting, and using it in particular ways within the shot. You can bring across many different things, such as joy, and just by using different lighting strategies.
4th: Over-tonal Montage
- This is related to Tonal Montage, but in addition to lighting, over tonal montage also talks about the texture of the objects in the shot. - 'Not so much about how you light a surface, but what happens to the object that has been lit, especially over time'. It is the effect that the light has over certain objects.
5th- Intellectual Montage 
- This montage has to do with the use of symbols, causing 'logical cognition', which enables us to reason intellectually. Done purposefully in the montage, rather than chaotically.