
Yet, this is what the director and the scriptwriter want to create a montage of. However, the interesting thing is that there are so many images that the camera will have great difficulty when taking a correct shot. The instructions for the director show how he is going to use the camera to take several shots so that they could be added to create a montage of the movie. This passage occurs in Citizen Kane’s script written by Orson Welles. Through this and beyond we see the fairy-tale mountaintop of Xanadu, the great castle a sillhouette as its summit, the little window a distant accent in the darkness. Camera travels up what is now shown to be a gateway of gigantic proportions and holds on the top of it – a huge initial “K” showing darker and darker against the dawn sky. Now, as the camera moves slowly towards the window which is almost a postage stamp in the frame, other forms appear barbed wire, cyclone fencing, and now, looming up against an early morning sky, enormous iron grille work. Example #4Īll around this is an almost totally black screen. Eliot has successfully used this film editing technique in literary writing. The poem presents a river, fingers with a leaf in them, nymphs, the Thames, bottles and so many things in these few lines that it becomes a complete storyline when these images are assembled. They are often used as transitions, or during moments of emotional high points. These verses occur in “The Wasteland” a postmodern poem by T. A montage is a film technique that compiles various scenes in order to condense the plot. The nymphs are departed, and their friends, the loitering heirs of city directors Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes, cigarette ends The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers, Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song. The river’s tent is broken: the last fingers of leafĬlutch and sink into the wet bank. This shows that images run through her mind in a storyline.

This is a process also called assemblage as she recalls and turns to canvas, sees her image, sees colors and then thinks about it. This entire passage shows as if the images have been joined together to make a picture. Some define the word as a striking and vivid representation in the form of a photograph. Montage also means an art that consists of a combination of pictures and objects.


It also means combining sounds, videos, and texts to present an idea. This passage occurs by the end of the novel where Lily Briscoe talks in the presence of Mr. The definition of montage is a composite of work created by putting together various elements. Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision. With a sudden intensity, as if she saw it clear for a second, she drew a line there, in the centre. She looked at the steps they were empty she looked at her canvas it was blurred. But what did that matter? she asked herself, taking up her brush again. It would be hung in the attics, she thought it would be destroyed. Yes, with all its greens and blues, its lines running up and across, its attempt at something. Quickly, as if she were recalled by something over there, she turned to her canvas. From To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolfe
