Vertical montage focuses on the a single shot or moment, rather than across (horizontal) various shots. Indelibly, vertical montage provides a closer reading of images and their content, as well as permits non-visual phenomena to be considered alongside the image proper.
Montage: combining shots that are depictive--single in meaning, neutral in content--into intellectual content and series. (not multiple shots that show multiple p.o.v., referred to as "coverage" in film).
Based on Sergei Eisenstein's research on Japanese kanji (ideogram), his theory included 5 methods of montage:
- metric (ratcheting up shots to build tension regardless of content)
- rhythmic (continuity editing)
- tonal (cutting according to the emotional tone)
- overtonal (more abstract-cutting to the tones or overtones of the shots)
- intellectual (cutting to the shots' relationship to an intellectual concept)
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