RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

Slobodan Canić

ELECTRONIC MONTAGE AS A CREATIVE ACTIVITY

Živojin S. Lalič, Elektronska montaža - video-miksovanje (Electronic Montage - Video-mixing), Radio-Television Belgrade, TV Program ming and Production Unit, Belgrade, 1981. The note ”for internal use” on the inner cover of this smallish book, admittediy neutral in formulation and not too visible, usually has a special significance depending on the occasion and also because of the variety of functions it serves. We аге not sure what its significance here is, but in view of the book’s contents, would prefer to have it read ”for wider use”. In the still, for our cultural scene, too small a choice of books by national authors concerned in part or in whole with television (while those that treat the subject are slightly tiring with their variations on similar themes, generalizations and translated puotations) Živojin Lalič takes a stride, sometimes perhaps irresolutely, toward a specific field calling explicitly for persona.l research experience and theoretical consideration. His basic idea is to stress the dimensions of electronic montage and video-mixing making them at one and the same time an independent and constitutive act in the process of television production ог, if you will, television creativity. The author succeeds in indicating the special features of the esthetic-artistic and technological-manipulative aspects of the montage procedure. For him, naturally, the greatest significance attaches to expressive possibilities, although a number of practical observations, technical descriptions and instructions

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