Strike (1925, dir. Serge Eisenstein) is a silent film. It was created during the rise of the soviet union and tells the story of one of the workers. The way he does this is by featuring different soviet montage techniques. This includes Metric Editing which is a technique in which lengths of shots make the tempo of the scene. This is used at the start of the film where this strike was being organised

To increase the tempo of the scene, he quickly cuts between the factory worker’s faces with only a second in the shot for the audience to process what’s happening. This is barely any time at all, which only speeds up the scene and creates a sense of chaos and panic and gives the audience a sense of urgency; which correlates to what the workers are feeling.

To allow the audience to understand each of the characters, Strike uses the intellectual method of editing when the agents are being introduced. In this scene, it cuts from pictures of animals, to the pictures of their faces, and then reveals their code names. This creates an understanding as to why they were named after the animals they were. He fades the animals’ faces into the characters to make the comparison obvious, and then traits that the character has that the animal also has will seem more noticeable to the audience.