Monday, April 30, 2007
Montage—a bad idea!
One thing I've discovered is that montage (the time-compression kind) is a bad idea. The first version of the film was full of montages: this montage represents the spinner spinning for a long time, this montage represents Ben's return to everyday life, etc. etc. But we've taken all of those out. They don't work. You have to convert everything into a specific scene. For example, rather than a montage that shows Ben with his wife, Ben eating and Ben at work, you have to condense all of that information into a scene. So now we have Ben eating with his wife off camera and then he goes to work. Another example of having to move from "symbolic" thinking to the literal world of film.
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team america has the definitive/only song about it:
The hour's approaching, just give it your best
You've got to reach your prime.
That’s when you need to put yourself to the test,
And show us a passage of time,
We're gonna need a montage (montage)
Oh it takes a montage (montage)
Show a lot of things happing at once,
Remind everyone of what’s going on (what’s going on?)
And with every shot you show a little improvement
To show it all would take to long
That’s called a montage (montage)
Oh we want montage (montage)
And anything that we want to go from just a beginner to a pro,
You need a montage (montage)
Even Rocky had a montage (montage)
(Montage…montage)
Anything that we want to go from just a beginner to a pro,
You need a montage (montage)
Oh it takes a montage (montage)
Always fade out in a montage,
If you fade out, it seem like more time
Has passed in a montage,
Montage
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