Montage Practise | Workshop

After the workshop with Mike Rymer, we had a further workshop to give us practise on creating a montage. We were to work in a group, create a 3-5 minute montage, the theme of the video could either be despair, hope, joy or fear, and we had to edit the footage individually to create 4 different outcomes.

Planning

When getting into groups, we decided to get into our groups from before so myself, Nisserin, Ida and Josh worked together. We decided to pick the theme hope for our video, and came up with the idea that Josh was going to run for president so the video would contain him getting ready to do his campaign speech. We created a shot list and a short script for the speech.
 However, when it came to the filming day, we were told that the montage shouldn't have a narrative which meant that we had to adjust our original idea. We talked as a group and decided to stick to the original shot list and got rid of some of the shots that we didn't think were needed. We would then edit the footage in a way that doesn't show a narrative, but instead shows a montage.

Filming

When filming the shots, we used the jib for the last shot as a type of 'hero' shot. We also then used a mixture of close-ups and mid-shots within our camera work, while filming both inside and outside to create a variation of locations. To create a quick pace we used a mixture of quick pans which were then cut quickly within the editing.

Editing

We had filmed a shot where Josh makes a tick list and ticks all of things off the list, this shot was what I wanted to structure my video with so I made sure to interpret that throughout the whole video. I also wanted to make it quick paced, so I made sure to make the cuts quick and make sure the sound design created an impact. Then to create the symbol of hope, I decided to add an image of a dove and make it move so it lands on Josh's shoulder at the end. I did this to emphasise the hope theme as I felt it wasn't quite clear within my video, although the music chose does help.

My feedback was positive, although I was told that the theme of hope wasn't quite there but the montage aspect of the video was well presented.