Simplify the following in point form

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My session focused on a more tightly defined meaning of ‘montage’: specifically, the techniques that were invented
by Soviet filmmakers in the years between the Russian revolution and the rise of Stalin. These techniques are still used
by filmmakers today and provide exciting opportunities to explore how images, sound and ideas can work together.
‘Soviet montage’ was born out of both ideology and necessity. After the 1917 revolution, film stock was in short
supply, so filmmakers learnt by experimenting with found footage, exploring different ways in which images could be
combined. One of the things they discovered was that audiences would respond to images differently depending on
context. In the ‘Kuleshov experiment’, audiences were shown a close-up of an actor followed by a shot of either a bowl of soup, a coffin, or an attractive woman. They thought that the actor was expressing hunger, grief or desire and
were impressed by his acting, though in fact each of his close-ups used exactly the same footage.
In the early Soviet era there was a huge demand for propaganda, and film was seen as the ideal medium to convey
ideas to a largely illiterate audience. Lenin said, ‘…of all the arts, film is the most important to us’. Filmmakers like
Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov thought that the continuity system was ‘bourgeois’ and created an illusion of
reality: as committed Marxists they believed in ‘dialectic’, where meaning comes from the conflict between ideas.
Eisenstein wanted to use cinema to stir emotions and inspire the audience to revolutionary action.

Answer 1

- Session focused on Soviet filmmakers and the invention of montage techniques
- Techniques still used by filmmakers today
- Soviet montage born out of ideology and necessity
- Filmmakers experimented with found footage due to film stock shortage
- Audiences respond to images differently depending on context (Kuleshov experiment)
- Huge demand for propaganda in early Soviet era
- Film seen as ideal medium to convey ideas to illiterate audience
- Eisenstein and Vertov believed in using cinema to inspire revolutionary action through the conflict of ideas