Film 210: Week 8

Montages

This lesson covers:

  • When to use them
  • Structure and formatting
  • Dialogue in montages
  • Other approaches

Montages

Montages are often used to show a short sequence, usually focused on a specific idea or action. It is frequently without dialogue and used to compress a long passage of time into a brief moment on the screen.

An example might look like this:

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Example of montage.

Introduce the section with MONTAGE and then detail the action that it describes (SARAH AND MIKE BUILD THE CAR). Each moment is set off with a double hyphen, then a space. Add a space between each line.

Remember to keep consistency. End each moment with a period on each line.

Dialogue in Montages

Dialogue is allowed in montages. As Trottier states here:

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Another example of it in use is The Muppet Movie (2011):

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