Hitchcock explains about CUTTING and his philosophy behind the camera

Since we are talking about one of the best directors of all time. I felt that this video Hitchcock touches about his side of the cinematic approach to one of his hit makers "Psycho". Even though this is not Rear Window , I still feel like Hiotchcock uses cutting and other techniques as a way to convince viewers that it just like reading a famous novel

ALFRED HITCHCOCK ON 3 THEORIES OF FILM EDITING - for student response before class

Here is a 7 minute interview with Alfred Hitchcock in which he talks about three types of editing.  He applies the first two to his very famous film, Psycho.  What type of editing techniques do you feel he uses in Rear Window, and why?

"Nuovo Cinema Paradiso" Final Scene

On the exam we took I'm still trying to understand the concept of emotional montage. Last night I had the leisure of watching a very old school movie Cinema Paradiso it was a movie I watch in my film class back in high school and this was a specific scene that I remember. The love montage of all love films that help the main character understand love and wanting to be with his true love. The reason why I choose this film was to show a montage in a film in a film. The Montage help brings out the emotion to show the excitement on movie goers who love romantic films that love is shown through the eyes of the viewer but it also means you

I thought that this was a good example of jump cut editing. We see the character go through a very dramatic appearance change as he cuts off his head and facial hair after each jump cut. You can really see the depressed state that this actor is carrying out through his character. The racing to the emergency room, the concerned girlfriend. It creates a nostalgic feeling of how he longs for the past and how things like this become unreal like a dream. 

Continuity and Montage editing all in one scene!

I thought this scene from Inception was a great example of continuity AND montage editing.  The scene takes you back and forth between thoughts and dreams (montage) as well as multiple scenes in the same room (continuity) all while maintaining the same narrative.  There are quite a few people who do not like this movie and considers it rather confusing but I enjoy it.

Black Swan Montage

Spongebob Montage

Top 10 Best Montages of All Time

Looking at this video shows that Montage does not just have to be a variety of clips to tell a story but describe the story in such a short amount of time but every director thinks about what story am I trying to tell. Could I be funny ? or could I be tragic? , or what kind of art am I trying to portray? When Cache mentions in class that every time she hears the word Montage she thinks of Rocky. Then watching this and seeing that Rocky 4 was 31 minutes of Montage shows how Stallone (who was the director) was trying his hardest to shorten his story to the make sure the viewer understands what is going on in a short period of time

The Godfather: Baptism Scene

This Montage is from the one of the breathtaking scenes in The Godfather, known as The Baptism Scene. The shooting scenes in this section, the Gothic and Catholic background music and the shootings interweave together and create the complexity and heartlessness of the protagonist himself. The paradoxical cuts builds up the tense of the movie.

Montage Film Editing

I wanted to pick a movie that I thought most of the students had probably seen already.  I think this movie depicts montage editing very well.  In the action scenes the cuts are pieced together in such a way to keep you involved and intrigued as to what's going on with the fights on the water as well as what is going on on land.  The action shots keep you thinking about multiple plots that are happening throughout the movie. 

Montage Film Example