Methods of montage

There are four different styles of  soviet montage

Metric where the editing follows a number of frames, cutting to the next shot no matter what is happening within the image. This montage is used to provoke the most basic and emotional of reactions in the audience  an example of metric montage from Eisenstein's October.

Rhythmic includes cutting based on time, but using the visual composition of the shots  along with a change in the speed of the metric cuts  to induce more complex meanings than what is possible with metric montage. Once sound was introduced, rhythmic montage also included audio elements (music, dialogue, sounds).An example of rhythmic montage would be the battleship Potemkin’s "Odessa steps" sequence.

Tonal a tonal montage uses the emotional meaning of the shots  not just manipulating the temporal length of the cuts or its rhythmical characteristics  to  provoke a reaction from the audience. For example, a sleeping baby would create a feeling of calmness and ease, and a storm would create a feeling of unease and a worry for what coming. A tonal example from Eisenstein's the battleship Potemkin . This is the part following the death of the sailor Vakulinchuk with the statues of the lion sitting up and becoming alert.

Intellectual uses shots which, combined, an intellectual meaning. intellectual montage example from Eisenstein's October and strikes. In Strike,  shots of striking workers being attacked cut with a shots of a bull being slaughtered creates a film metaphor suggesting that the workers are being treated like cattle. This meaning does not exist in the individual shots; it only can be view when they are put side by side