Mark A. Cella is a distinguished fellow of film studies at Fresno State University. He’s a published writer on Cinema History and Film Theory. He has directed over 35 shorts and documentaries, including the award winning “Marlboro House”, which took top prize at the 2004 Slamdance short competition.
Today’s Topic: Montage (Part 2)
Actually, montage of this type is not so much a linking device as a condensed narrative, a form of visual shorthand that uses actual transitions like dissolves, fades and cuts in rapid succession to link ideas. Montage frequently uses symbolic images to represent change- for example, piles of coins and dollars that grow larger dissolved against images of the stock exchange and industry to show the financial rise of a character.
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