Eisenstein- The Cinematographic Principle and the Ideogram

One of the first thoughts that I had while reading this writing was that I have found myself confused by the meaning on montage. I feel that there are so many different definitions floating around that I have mixed them up so I will definitely be looking for clarity in this dilemma. I found this reading to be a little hard to really get a grasp of but thought that some of the examples that were used made it a little easier to understand. An interesting point that I got from this reading was the relationship between shot and montage. As I mentioned I have been having difficulty really understanding what the meaning of montage is when it is used in many different ways. I believe that montage is used in this reading as a compilation of shots that come together to form a series that is meaningful to spectators. I thought that it was interesting that Eisenstein wrote shot as a cell of montage. Shots then collide together to create the montage. I thought that these two terms were particularly important to pick out of this reading because Eisenstein even states that shot and montage are the basic elements of cinema. I thought that the way that this concept was linked to hieroglyphs to be interesting and actually helped clarify some of the reading for me. Much like a shot, the hieroglyphs are objects that are depictive that then form intellectual series, or in the world of cinema a montage.