Montage

Montage is one of the most important factors in any video. It allows us to speed up or slow down time, and draw attention to certain details. Montage is supposed to stimulate our senses both visually and aurally. It can help to tell a story and it can really make a video interesting. The "Father" of this method is Sergei Eisenstein. Back in his day, a film was just one long shot with no cuts or edits. Sure, that was interesting and new and people were enthralled, but Sergei went and he made it better. He decided that a film didn't have to only be one shot, and thus, Montage was truly born. Sergei recognized that film could be so much more, that it could tell a story and give people feeling. Everything we know about movies now, and everything we see in movies now is stemming from what Sergei started. 

             I applied what I understand montage to be to something else that I love doing. Skating. 

                Montage can be used in all sorts of ways, but the way I feel like it works best is when a piece is led by audio and accompanied by visuals. So for us, music was what was leading our Montage. Music is useful in setting a mood and the visuals that go with it just add to that. The general idea was just to get the feeling of Brodom that goes along with skating. Longboarding embodies the free spirit, and through montage we tried to get people to have the feeling of freedom. The Tree in the video is the centerpiece of that symbolism.
                                             I would like to go back when the weather warms up and reshoot certain parts of the video because we excluded a lot of actual skating. This was mostly due to the fact that the temperature outside dropped to 7 degrees, and believe it or not that made it brutally uncomfortable to ride. There is more I want to do with this concept, because it was really interesting to shoot while riding or in the trunk of a car, and I'd really like to see what else we can do with that. As for the basic goal of this montage, I feel like we accomplished it. We wanted to make people feel essence of skating, and the free spiritedness and adventure that follows along with it. That tree will be adorned with boards again one day.