how does the film use soviet methods of montage techniques to tell the workers story?

In part 6 ‘extermination’ (the final part) of Eisenstein’s 1925 film ‘Strike’, he uses an intellectual montage in the cow slaughtering scene. the scene was violent and raw making it disturbing for the viewer, the shots alternating from the man brutally slaughtering the cow to the working class attempting to flee and dying represents how both are fighting for their life and rights but the power and greed the upper class hold over them unfairly chooses their fate for them. 

We also see a shot of the soldiers followed by a shot of a butcher, showing the parallels between the two powerful killers in each scenario and being a metaphor for how the working class are seen as less than humans but more as something to be useful to the upper class, just as cows are often only seen as meat. 

in the scene where the labour class man is asked to come together and join forces, he loses his temper, causing the antagonist to smash the table with his hand, spilling the ink on the map. here a tonal montage was used, it shows the viewer the darkness that comes with carelessness and ignorance the upper-class have and how their anger can cause mass destruction to the people they’re in charge of. the ink can also represent blood and the upperclassman’s hand getting covered in the ink after putting his hand on the map represents the blood on his hands.

a metric montage is used to create suspense in the scene where the soldiers are on their horses and are fighting the workers. a number of shots capturing the workers running around scared and trying to fight back makes the viewer feel a midst of the chaos as if it was surrounding them. there being less soldiers on the horses than workers on the ground shows how they are a higher status to them and have an advantage as well as not having to fight as hard to survive in life.

Location #1 – my bedroom, opening scene with Tyler waking up and getting ready as the phone calls begin. later on in film after flashback, sequence showing Tylers mental health deteriorating

Location #2 – street in town and outside of coffee shop, Tyler walking and checking if Daisy’s at work

Location #3 – green area above Havre Des Pas, flashback scene with Tyler and daisy

location #4 – my kitchen, see dirty dishes piled up and mess everywhere

Location #5 – graveyard, Tyler putting the daisy chain on the gravestone

Scene	equipment	Location	Time of day
1/4	camera, lighting	my bedroom and kitchen	n/a
2	camera, gimble	town	day
3	camera	green area Havre des pas	day
5	camera, gimble	Green Street cemetery	dusk

blocking is working out the details of an actor’s moves in relation to the camera, You can also think of blocking as the choreography of a dance or a ballet: all the elements on the set (actors, extras, vehicles, crew, equipment) should move in perfect harmony with each other.

staging is the placement and movement of objects in the frame, as well as the camera in relation to your performance blocking.

key theorists:

Torodov – Equilibrium

Todorov posited that all narratives contain equilibrium, disequilibrium, recognition, resolution, and new equilibrium.

Levi-Strauss – Binary oppositions

Levi Strauss, a French anthropologist in the 1900s, proposed a theory of ‘binary opposites’ which entails that the majority of narratives in media forms such as books and film contain opposing main characters. These binary opposites help to thicken the plot and further the narrative; and introduce contrast.

Propp – Spheres of action (Character types)

Propp argued that stories are character driven and that plots develop from the decisions and actions of characters and how they function in a story. He claimed characters could be classified into certain roles that progress a story

Vogler/Campbell – Hero’s journey

In brief, the Hero is living in the so-called “ordinary world” when he receives a call to adventure. Usually, the Hero is unsure of following this call — this phase is known as the “refusal of the call” — but is then helped by a mentor figure, who gives him counsel and convinces him to follow the call.

Barthes – Narrative codes

Those five narrative codes are; hermeneutic code, proairetic code, cultural code, connotative code, and symbolic code. This study applies qualitative research design to analyse the source of data.

narrative can be described as the structural framework for the movie, essentially being made up of the structure (linear & non-linear) and the plot.

Dura Lex (1926) – Lev Kuleshov

Zvenigora (1928) – Alexander Dovzhenko

a man with a movie camera (1929) – Dziga Vertov

By 1915, many major motion-picture companies had relocated to Hollywood from the East Coast. Hollywood was an ideal place to produce movies since filmmakers couldn’t be sued there for infringing on motion picture film patents held by Thomas Edison and his Motion Picture Patents Company.

which nations film industry does cousins describe as ‘the best in the world’ and why? Scandinavia, specifically Sweden and Denmark, because they used unique lighting giving the films a certain look you couldn’t get anywhere else and it was very intellectually driven and themes and ideas where innovative. the lack of censorship meant they had more creative risks and explore more topics than America.

Benjamin Christensen – Haxan (1922), Sealed orders (1912)

D.W. Griffith – birth of a nation (1915), Intolerance (1916)

the first film the lumiere brother created was the film La Sortie des ouvriers de l’usine Lumière (1895; “Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory”), which is considered the first motion picture.

a ‘Phantom ride’ was when Cameramen would strap themselves and/or their cameras to the buffer of a speeding train. From this position, the film would appear to be moving thanks to an invisible force

what was ground-breaking about ‘the sick kitten’ was it showed the innovation of the close up to show more detail for the shot and ‘life of an American fireman’ was the first to piece together shots (continuity editing) so the watcher can follow along the story and see different sides

the first film star was florence lawrence because of how good her publicist was and her faked death.