Week Three Response

After reading the articles and going back over some parts a few times I walked away with a understanding of montage as a sort of pace that the video, song, comic, story, etc is put together with and the meaning we derive from it.

With metric montage, it seems to focus mainly on repetition, simplicity, and almost a subtleness in the overall piece that it is included in. That metric can be reused over and over again and we can still recognize the similarities even if the rest of the piece has been redone. Like for example remixes: once hearing the original we are still able to recognize elements from it in later remixes of the song. Themes of games are usually the same generally, but later games may add in elements that the older theme did not have, building on what was already there. It gives a sort of 'pulse', or basic element, of the work of art.

Rhythmic montage seems to be the sort of montage we see in movies, clips that have movement within them and tell of an action or a story. For example:

Animation seems to be a good example of rhythmic montage, a series of still clips strung together at length in order to convey movement and a story.

Tonal montage and Overtonal montage seem similar to me- they both focus mainly on the sound's impact on the listener's emotions, usually accompanying a scene that fits the qualities of the song. A high energy fast-paced song for a car chase for example, or a slow, sad song for a tearful scene. Without the music, the scene wouldn't gather nearly as much emotional reaction from the viewer. Even without a scene to watch, songs can impact our moods as well. We like to clean to fast paced songs, read to soothing background music, or maybe listen to slow paced songs during a rainy day. 

This song is a great example of how the creators used tonal or overtonal montage to make a scene gather more emotional response from the viewer. During the scene this is in, one of the characters, Fi, leaves forever at the ending-something that gathered a lot of emotional response from viewers because she had been there accompanying the main character throughout the journey. 

Listening to it now I can picture the exact scene and emotions-although not as overwhelming as the first time, that were present during the scene. 

Or overtonal montage could also mean using something small and hardly noticeable to foreshadow a greater impact event later on in like a film, book, comic, game, etc. Or perhaps an subtle object or theme that is tied to a specific element of the story. 

Intellectual montage is the information we piece together in our own head, and then figure out the deeper meaning of the symbolization that is presented to us. In The Great Gatsby, the green light that Gatsby reaches out towards is representative of his love Daisy, who he can never be with. Another example is a billboard advertisement in Queens that has deteriorated so much that only a pair of eyes remain on it, representative of the eyes of god. 

A little comic about The Great Gatsby from Hark a Vagrant also helps with the example naturally. http://harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=259