Montage
Course MD612 | Ghada Fikri

Everyone who has had in his hands a piece of film to be edited knows by experience how neutral it remains, even though a part of a planned sequence, until it is joined with another piece, when it suddenly acquires and conveys a sharper and quiet different meaning than that planned for it at the time of filming. -Sergei Eisenstein
Course Outline
The course guides students to understand and analyze different types of montage, its basic functions and purposes. It integrates historic reflections of montage development, theory of montage and introduces montage for film editing. Elements will be history and narrative styles of film, parameter of contextual design of the moving image, interpretations of contexts, forms of perception, linear film and interrelation of various films during film installations.
Wisdom of the Students
- Visible camera movements or cuts to a viewer are like being aware of your tongue. -Sarah El Ashy
TIMEPLAN
WEEK | DATE | CLASS MATERIAL | ASSIGNMENT |
Week 1 | 11+12/02 | What's Coming? | The 4 Questions & The Cutting Edge |
Week 2 | 18+19/02 | Why Cut? | 5 cuts in Rear Window |
Week 3 | 25+26/02 | Dimensions of Film Editing | Assignment 01: Deadline 11 March : Symmetry | Windows | Calligraphy |
Week 4 | 04+05/03 | Dimensions of Film Editing | Assignment 01: Deadline 11 March : Symmetry | Windows | Calligraphy |
Week 5 | 11+12/03 | Boycott | - |
Week 6 | 18+19/03 | Why Carry On? | - |
Week 7 | 25+26/03 | Assignment 01 Feedback + In Class Editing Chevrolet Ad. | 100 words on topic |
Week 8 | 01+02/04 | Assignment 02 Brainstorming | Pool of footage deadline |
Week 9 | 15+16/04 | Soviet Montage | Assignment 02 deadline |
Week 10 | 22+23/04 | Direct Cinema & Editing Structures | - Quiz on Tuesday 28/2 at 10:30
- Report on F for Fake (1974) - Written Final concept - Written Editing concept |
Week 11 | 29+30/04 | Last Class | |
Week 12 | 06+07/05 | Consultations | |
Week 13 | 13+14/05 | Consultations | |
Week 14 | 20+21/05 | Consultations | |
Week 15 | 27+28/05 | Final Submission and screening |