La pantalla dividida vs el montaje alternado en el montaje del cortometraje “Alguien toca la puerta”

Abstract

There are several proposals to build what we call 'film narrative', to narrate there are several necessary elements and resources, such as the plot, the space, the time, the narrator and the characters. When screen is divided, the cinematographic narrative must present the narrative resources within each fragment of it, so that the story has meaning and narrative. The objective of this study is to investigate the qualities of narrative montage, simultaneous montage and spatial montage; by creating the experimental proposal for the montage of the short film Alguien toca la puerta, where the split-screen composition tells the drama of four characters in four frames on the same screen. Being a four-frame composition, it is important the way in which the narrative time is presented due to the simultaneity of the actions that happen and are shown on the screen. This film represents the complexity of making simultaneous construction show us what a character imagines behind the phone conversation. Using a simultaneous narration, the screen partition allows to unite and, at the same time, separate the dramatic moments both visually and audibly