Montage Research

In our film opening, we want to include a montage to show real footage from the London riots. We feel this would be a really effective way to convey the inspiration for our opening and would look really appealing and interesting. We want the montage to include a series of fast moving images and footage to represent how chaotic it was and to be overwhelming for our main character.

The montage allows us to easily within the opening include a lot of different views of the London riots from various people's perspective, for example people involved and people on the streets.

I researched London riot footage on YouTube and selected what I thought would work best within a montage for the most hard hitting effect and clips we could edit best.
  

I found this clip particularly good in showing the crowd mentality of the riots which we researched into earlier. I also think this would be good to include in our montage because it is quite dramatic when the crowd suddenly appears and charges. I thought the high angle also represents looking on at the riots and how some people were just spectating. I thought we could perhaps include the dialogue 'are you fucking kidding me' on top of the music. 

This footage was filmed by an onlooker and I thought it would suit the montage as the rioters are throwing rocks at the police. This reflects the violence demonstrated as well as reflecting on of the possible titles of our opening, Rocks and Bottles. We could edit the clip to show the rocks being thrown at the police officers.

This is perhaps one of the most recognised pieces of footage to emerge from the riots. It shows an innocent Malaysian student who looks like he is getting help from passers-by after he suffered an injury from being caught in the riots however, he was actually getting mugged by the mistaken helpers. This is a shocking and well known clip from riot footage and so I think we could include this in the montage.   

This clip starts of showing the damage caused in the riots from a point of view perspective. The fires and throwing of bottles demonstrates the violence experienced. I like that this footage focuses on both the rioters and police and the struggle between them. The crowd mentality is shown once again here in the first part and I like the dialogue 'our streets' and the smashing of bottles which can be heard. The second part of this clip shows a drunk girl who says its 'the best day ever' and 'this is Hackney for ya' which sums up how some rioters felt. Her drinking a large bottle of wine to herself also I think would be a good image to include as it shows the personal greed of people involved in the riots. 

 

Overall I think that we could sample images from these and perhaps other similar videos to create our montage which would be fast moving to convey the sense of disarray and chaos caused by the London riots.

An example of a fast moving montage would be the Skins opening sequence which we could perhaps consider when creating our own montage scene.

Amy F