Eisenstein- the Einstein of Montage

Before reading the post and watching the various videos of montage, I had assumed that the movie montage only had one purpose: to cheesily show a rapid passage of time in the middle of a story. It's a classic, and almost every film out there has at least one to show people growing over time, aging together, or finding themselves in someway. After exploring the world of montage, it has revealed a much greater purpose, it not only speeds up time, but it can also slow it down, make it more meaningful, or make it unbearable (It being time).

Ultimately, montage in film is the essence of playing with time. Time is an incredibly hard concept to grasp considering it is a manmade concept--really not even tangible. Some dialogue from George Orwell's 1984, 

"Does the past exist concretely, in space? Is there somewhere or other a place, a world of solid objects, where the past is still happening?"

"No."

"Then where does the past exist, if at all?"

When put into context like so, the concept of time is completely time bending, but besides the point: my montage. Inspired by the montage in Marley and Me, I thought it would be cute to show the bond between my family and our dog Otis, but it proved much more difficult than I expected. After storyboarding plenty of easy shots to make a clean project, my untrained, 1-year-old Black Lab had other ideas. He is adorable, but his menacing side came out in this project. Rather than focusing on proper technique, tripod usage, and color correction, I focused on trying to get Otis to cooperate. My final project is choppy, but I think the message did get across: no one can replace the brotherhood and love of a dog. His lack of cooperation made for a video that evokes an "awh" and maybe even a laugh. This mesh of poorly composed videos helps you get an idea of what living with Otis is like.

http://youtu.be/b34n87MXExM