Chapter | Twenty-Two
Editing Methods: Montage
Use this style for: Any movie without a regular story.
OVERVIEW
Call in the cavalry. Sometimes regular editing just won’t cut it, especially when your movie is a little unusual or if it’s a sports movie, music promo, or travel movie. When you need to go that extra mile to create a sequence that really affects people, you need montage.
As soon as you start editing a movie such as a music promo or a road trip, you soon realize that you don’t want a story and you don’t need one. The movie is enough by itself – the images, the way the visuals unfold. It’s a whole different animal. So another method is needed, one where you hook up to a very different way of doing things. Montage editing ...
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