Grade 11 > Video: Montage Editing
Background videos on montage editing
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Student Examples
The Other Penalty Box by Jacob Brough
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Dinner for Two by Minza Saalim
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"Breakfast for One" by Scott Japlin
Winner: Best Editing, 2014 Halton Film Festival, The Eddies |
"1 + 1" by River Sommerhalder
Winner: 3rd place Comedy, 2015 Halton Film Festival, The Eddies |
"Morning Brew" by Bailey Lorenz
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"Training Day" by Kaitlyn Hartshorn
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Why you shouldn't use the music from the movie, Rocky, in your own video...
Music from the movie series, Rocky, is synonymous Rocky and only Rocky. "Gonna Fly Now" carries it’s own unique emotion that is associated with that edited sequence, much like the music from the shower scene in Psycho is unique to that scene only. By using this music, you are using the emotion that someone else created and transferring it to your own sequence, but it can never live up to the power and emotion of the original sequence in Rocky. In fact, you just need to play the music from Rocky and you will automatically feel invigorated, mainly because you make the association with the music of the training scene. Therefore it cannot and should not be used in other montage edited sequences. Plus the teacher has seen this a bazillion times. (Please don't use "Eye of the Tiger" either.)
Montage Tips
- In montage editing, film can transcend space and time.
- Pick an activity and condense time in your editing.
- There should be the sense of a beginning, middle and end, rather than just random events.
- Juxtapose 2 consecutive shots, make them clash. One shot + One shot = New meaning.
- Don't be afraid to shoot close-up. It helps with the juxtaposition.
- Isolate a clip to just its essence, that is, shorten it until you get the idea of the shot, then shorten it even more. If the shot doesn't make sense, you've shortened it too much.
Montage Ideas
Trying something difficult and finally getting it
- falling in love
- building a sand castle
- the mad morning rush which so often takes place in houses across the world
- painting a picture
- getting ready for a date
- a scalper selling tickets
- a fight; getting beat up; being bullied by a group of guys
- getting to a destination
- a high stakes poker game
- any kind of sports game; getting prepared for a sports game
- making something, anything
- Activities of camping like pitching a tent, preparing your kayak for a paddle
Trying something difficult and finally getting it
- piano piece
- shooting a basketball
- toddler trying to tie his or her shoes
- editing a movie