Event Management: Montage (film Making )

Montage is a technique in film editing in which a series of short shots are edited into a sequence to condense space, time, and information. The term has been used in various contexts. It was introduced to cinema primarily by Eisenstein, and early Soviet directors used it as a synonym for creative editing. In France the word "montage" simply denotes cutting. The term "montage sequence" has been used primarily by British and American studios, which refers to the common technique as outlined in this article. The montage sequence is usually used to suggest the passage of time, rather than to create symbolic meaning as it does in Soviet montage theory. From the 1930s to the 1950s, montage sequences often combined numerous short shots with special optical effects (fades, dissolves, split screens, double and triple exposures) dance and music. They were usually assembled by someone other than the director or the editor of the movie.

Two common montage sequence devices of the period are a newspaper one and a railroad one. In the newspaper one, there are multiple shots of newspapers being printed (multiple layered shots of papers moving between rollers, papers coming off the end of the press, a pressman looking at a paper) and headlines zooming on to the screen telling whatever needs to be told. "Scroll montage" is a form of multiple-screen montage developed specifically for the moving image in an internet browser. It plays with Italian theatre director Eugenio Barba's "space river" montage in which the spectators' attention is said to "[sail] on a tide of actions which their gaze [can never] fully encompass."[4] "Scroll montage" is usually used in online audio-visual works in which sound and the moving image are separated and can exist autonomously: audio in these works is usually streamed on internet radio and video is posted on a separate site

The motion picture's script to find out the story and action, then take the script's one line description of the montage and write his own five page script. The directors and the studio bosses left him alone because no one could figure out what he was doing. Left alone with his own crew, he constantly experimented to find out what he could do. He also tried to make the montage match the director's style, dull for a dull director, exciting for an exciting director.

Medium making the video.

Making video montage is the same with specification for making video editing. Medium or application for making the montage is using a Computer or personal laptop that has Intel Inside more that i5 the higher the core is the best for making a video or montage. According to Mr. Abda Abdul Nasir (Professional Montage editor) using an Apple laptops or PC is more suitable because it is not usually hang during making the video according to former Platinum Apple Communication editor Mr Aizzuddin He has been changing his laptop many times because of the internal problem by making a montage and video using the lower Laptop specification.

Application

There are a lot of applications that can be used for making a montage such as 3D maker, movavi editor Redshark editor and etc. During the study at Platinum Apple Communication a few things that need to be considered before making a montage such as the software application. The suggested application is adobe. The adobe application needs came version in their sub application as it links each other in adobe CS6 the application that will be used in the making of the montage is:

• Adobe Photoshop Cs 6

• Adobe premiere pro Cs 6

• Adobe after effect Cs 6

• Adobe prelude Cs 6

• Adobe illustrator Cs 6

Resolution

Resolution for the montage needs to be considered as medium that will be used for display such as Television, laptops, Led screen, or Projector. If the chosen resolution does not match the Display platform resolution it will appear a black panel either on the left and right video or the upper and the lower video played. The calculation for resolution such as

• 1600x900 wide screen

• 1240x720 square screen

• 800x600 square screen

Pixel for the picture or video

The pixel for the video is more that the width x height such as for a picture:

• 1280 (width pixel) x800 (height pixel)

The pixel in after effect needs to be adjusted by their progressive (DVCPROHD 1080p) that is suitable for Asian and the international for Europe (DVCPROHD 1080i)

Rendering video

The rendering video codec is H.264 because the codec are suitable for the player such as window media player, GOMS, VLC the best choices for codec is DXV but not all the player could play the video format. It is crucial to choose accurate video format because not all video players can play the video.

Step edit a Montage using Adobe after Effect creative studio 6

IMPORT SLIDESHOW, VIDEO, OR PICTURE ASSETS

In After Effects, double-click in the Project panel to bring up the Import File dialog, then locate and import the images you wish to use. For our project, I imported three folders of photos of yours one paper-texture image downloaded from iStockphoto or in google to use as a background.

Note: Though not imperative, ensuring your snapshot images are all the same pixel size will make this project a breeze to complete at the end

Any video or picture must be import into Project Panel

CREATE COMPOSITION

Select your chosen background texture image (ours is called “Paper 1280.psd”) and drag it onto the Create a New Composition icon at the bottom of the Project panel. This creates and opens a new Composition at the size of your image—ours is 1280 pixels square with a Duration of 10:00 (Composition>Composition Settings). Now, choose any one of your snapshot images and drag it into the Timeline above the texture image. Press S on the keyboard to reveal its Scale property, and adjust it down to 20% (or close to the visual).

Choosing the suitable composition that suits your images

Add photo edge

Probably 99.99% of digital images don’t come with a white edge, so we need to add one—but not in Photoshop on every image! Here’s a neat trick: With the snapshot layer selected, double-click on the Rectangle tool in the Toolbar to add a mask automatically around the layer. Now, go to Effect> Generate> Stroke. In the Effect Controls panel (ECP), adjust the Brush Size to 50 px, Brush Hardness to 100%, and Spacing to 0%. Nice thing is, we can reuse this on the other images.

Adding a photo edge to make a frame of the photo

KEYFRAME POSITION & ROTATION

At 00:20f on the Timeline, press P and Shift-R to reveal the snapshot’s Position and Rotation values, and click their Stopwatches to add keyframes. Now press V (Selection tool) and move the image to the bottom of the Comp, then hit W (Rotate tool) and adjust its angle a touch. At 00:00f, rotate the image in the opposite direction as much as you wish, then press V and drag it to its off-screen starting position (as shown). While you’re here, click the layer’s Motion Blur switch also (circled).

Key frame is where is the pictures will be appear

EASE IN KEYFRAMES & ADJUST VELOCITY

Drag a marquee across the keyframes at 00:20f to select them, then choose Animation>Keyframe Assistant>Easy Ease In. If you scrub the Timeline now, the spin and movement do slow down, but not “heavily” enough. Click the Graph Editor icon in the Timeline, then click just the Position value to show its motion velocity curve. Select that second keyframe to show its handle, then Shift-drag the handle to the left to force the velocity to decelerate very quickly from the start and slowly ease into the second keyframe. Repeat the exact same process for the second Rotation keyframe

DUPLICATE LAYER & ADJUST ANIMATION

With Steps 3–6, we’ve prepared a single layer which can be reused many times, and whose core image can easily be replaced later on. Press Command-D (PC: Ctrl-D) to duplicate the layer and, ensuring you’re at 00:20f (to avoid adding intermediate keyframes by mistake), move and rotate this layer to a different end position and angle. Then, go to 00:00f (the Home key does this) and move and rotate (keep using those tool shortcuts!) this layer to a different start position and angle.

RINSE & REPEAT

Now, repeat Step 7 (duplicate and adjust) as many times as you wish, making sure to only adjust the Position and Rotation values when you’re at 00:00f and 00:20f. Feel free to have the images come in from any position around all four corners of your comp, spinning as many times as you desire—this is your photo montage! Try to position the “rows” of images so they build upward from the bottom of the texture background to the top, perhaps leaving a gap for titles (or DVD menu buttons) later on.

SEQUENCE LAYER TIMING

Now to make the layers animate in an offset sequence: Press F2 to deselect all layers, then select your bottommost layer first. Now, hold down Shift and select the topmost layer (this is important as it sets the sequence order). Now go to Animation>Keyframe Assistant>Sequence Layers, turn Overlap to On, Transition to Off, and set the Duration to 10 frames less than your Timeline length (in our example, the Timeline is 10:00f, so we’ll key in 09:20f).

LAYER REPLACEMENT

Now for the easy part—replacing all the images! Scrub along the Timeline to 08:00, or to where you can see all of your images, and select one of the layers. In the Project panel, select the image you wish to replace it with, and simply press Command-Option-/ (PC: Ctrl-Alt-/) to replace the animated layer’s contents, but retain the border, shadow, keyframes, and velocity control. “Rinse-and-repeat” this step for all your images, and when you’re done, be sure to Save your work.

NEST COMPOSITION

All the hard work’s now done, so let’s wrap this up quickly and easily. Close this composition, then press Command-N (PC: Ctrl-N) to create a new composition. Choose your desired size and format from the Preset menu (in our case, HDTV 720), Name the comp “Final Comp,” and click OK. Now, drag your master animation comp from the Project panel into the Timeline of the new comp, then Shift-drag it upward so its bottom edge aligns with the bottom edge of the new composition

ANIMATE POSITION

At 00:00f, press P to reveal the nested layer’s Position value, and click the Stopwatch to add a keyframe. Now scrub along to 08:00f, and Shift-drag the nested layer down (or adjust the Y Position value in the Timeline) until its top edge aligns with the top of the composition. Be sure to choose Animation>Keyframe Assistant>Easy Ease In again on that second keyframe, then hit 0 (zero) on your keypad to create a RAM Preview and see your beautiful composition in motion.

FINAL EMBELLISHMENTS

Go to Layer>New>Adjustment Layer, then Effect>Color Correction>CC Toner, and set the Midtones swatch to a mid gray. Now choose Effect>Color Correction>Photo Filter, and choose Warming Filter (81) from the Filter option. Press T to show the layer’s Opacity property, go to 04:00f and add an Opacity Keyframe. Go to 07:00f and change the Opacity to 0% to bring the original colors in at the end

ADD FINAL TEXT

Add your final titles and this reusable, very cool photo-montage project is complete.

Recommended effect

There is a lot of technique to make a montage such as masking, adding effect, and making 3D motion pictures. The effective medium to make the montage is adobe after effect. According to Wikipedia: Adobe After Effects is a digital visual effects, motion graphics, and compositing application developed by Adobe Systems and is used in the post-production process of filmmaking and television production. Among other things, After Effects can be used for keying, tracking, rotoscoping , compositing and animation. It also functions as a very basic non-linear editor, audio editor and media transcoder.

The basic technique is masking process. the masking process is one of the process where an effect were added to make the footage become more life look alike such as adding a moving cloud in a plain picture to make it look moving during it played. There is also has many effect that we could make such as dissolving a footage or even using a green screen effect. Before make a masking process the main sources is background. The background can be the plain background or any pictures that you wanted to make as effect.

The other effect that commonly used is green screen effect. The green screen effect or known as Chroma Key is a special effects technique for compositing or layering two images or video streams together bas on color hues. The techniques have been used heavily in many fields to remove a background from the subject of a photo or video. Chroma keying can be done with backgrounds of any color that are uniform and distinct. The most common color that has been use for chroma key is green and blue. It is commonly used for weather forecast, broadcast where in news presenter. Chroma keying is also used in the entertainment industry for special effects in movies or video games, the advanced state of technologies and much commercially available computer software, such as Autodesk smoke, final cut pro, or adobe After Effect.

Other than that, common effect that usually been used by editor is rain effect, smoke effect, 3D channel, transitions, color corrections, moving parts, text, slide and dozen more .Adobe After Effect can be combine with Premiere Pro to give more effect on the footage or pictures. Other than that is the Adobe illustrator. It is used to create an image, or smart art for create a new version of smart art by your own. Adobe Photoshop are also has been used in cut or edit for a pictures that need to be used in after effect.