Film & Television vocabulary · Editing and Post-Production
Montage
Meaning in film & television, with examples
/ˈmɒntɑːʒ/nounCommon term
In film & television, montage means: A sequence of short shots edited together, often with music, to show a lot of time or many events quickly, such as a character training or a couple falling in love.
In Turkish: montaj sekansı, kurgu dizisi
How it is used
Common phrases: training montage, a montage sequence, a montage of memories. In film theory, Soviet montage refers to the 1920s ideas of Eisenstein and others about creating meaning by joining images.
Example sentences
A two-minute montage shows the restaurant's first year.
The training montage is a cliché, but audiences still love it.
Common collocations
training montage
montage sequence
Soviet montage
music montage
Related terms
editingThe work of choosing, ordering and joining shots so that they tell the story with the right rhythm, emotion and meaning.
transitionThe way one shot or scene changes into the next in editing, such as a straight cut, a fade or a dissolve.
jump cutA cut between two shots of the same subject from almost the same position, so that the image seems to jump forward in time.
cutAn instant change from one shot to the next in editing. It also means a version of an edited film, such as the director's cut.
