A montage can quickly summarize a large story through a series of short clips and images. It can compress time and show gradual changes or development happening rapidly. Montages are useful for representing dreams, memories, or how a setting changes over time. They can also depict the progression of a relationship through important moments. Parallel montage cuts between two locations to show their connection, while accelerated montage uses increasingly shorter shots to build pace and intensity toward a climax.

1. ‘Montages can chop a big story
up and tell it very very fast’

2. Some key points
- They can be a great source of visual storytelling.
- Each inch of the frame can be filled with relevant
detail and each detail pays relevance.
- A montage can compress time, make gradual change
see dramatic for example montages which show
‘training’ or ‘developing’. This creates the illusion they
are changing over time to save screen time in a movie.
- They can also be great in representing dreams or
reflections on the past and show what the character’s
‘wish’ they could have.
- They can show a difference within a setting over time.
- They can show a relationship in a series of ‘moments’.

3. Parallel Montage
Parallel Montage is when film cuts between two
separate locations showing their relevance and
how they link to one another. They don’t have to
be related but can be used in conveying a story
or theme in a short amount of shots.

4. Accelerated Montage
Accelerated montage tends to be used near the
end of a trailer when it comes to building pace,
the short shots are edited to have a shorter
duration so the past speeds up to an
ending/climax, this creates interest and draws in
an audience to pay close detail as to what is
happening.