Montage Theory

This Rocky clip is a montage of his training, it shows time passing and building up to a point where the action can resume.


Luv Kuleshov was among the very first to theorize about the relatively young medium of the cinema in the 1920's. He argued that editing a film is like constructing a building. Brick by brick (shot by shot) the building (film) is raised.
some time near 1918 Luv Kuleshov a Russian director conducted an experiment that proves his point. He took an old film clip of a head shot of a noted Russian actor and inter-cut the shot with different images.
A montage consists of a selection of many different images that are quickly edited together. A montage is used to show how time passes it can build up to a point where the action resumes it is what the montage was used for to build up to the point where the actors can act once more.