A montage is selecting, editing, and piecing together separate sections of film to form a continuous whole. It is a short video which doesn’t really tell a story, it is just lots of different types of shots put together with music over the top that portrays a genre.

Our brief was ‘using montage filming editing to create a short film (40 seconds – 1 minute) which communicates a simple, single idea’ .

First we were allocated into the groups we were going to be working in to create these montages and then began to plan our ideas and shots. We did this by coming up with some ideas of locations and angles of shots and what props we would use to make our shots more exciting. We used a post it note mood board to create this vision. Our theme was ‘practice makes perfect’ and tried to portray this in our short video.

After planning this, the next day we went outside with our camera and tripod and shot our clips, however the weather made it difficult to capture some clips such as running around the track at footes lane. We managed to improvise and get some shots on the school grounds instead which still looks effective.
Do you think your montage has an impact?

I do think my montage has an impact because of the repetition of shots throughout, I think this is really effective and proves that it is a montage due to the lack of order of the shots, it proves it isn’t continuity editing.
Do you get a sense of feeling or story / relationship?

I feel as though there is a sense of story due to the recurring theme, being sport.
How does one specified cuts create meaning?

The continuous shots of the girl running towards the camera at a low angle

Please use time codes to identify the cut in question.

At 0:19 and 0:35 we see this low angle and the runner is closer to the camera each time it cuts to this frame, proving the difference in time once again

Is there a sense of progression or are you trying just to reflect an experience?

We started off with wanting to portray progression, but it proved very difficult. So we decided to just express the experience of doing exercise.
Do you use repetition of some shots? If so, how do they help communicate your idea?

We do use some repetition of some of the running shots, it shows that she is continuously running and also portrays a sense of time, as if she is doing it on different days.
What additional shot would you have liked to get to further communicate the idea?

We were hoping to get a panning shot of our model running past, but our tripod was too stiff and was locked in place so our panning shot didn’t look effective in the end as the camera was moving and jolting a lot in the clip.