montage

/mɔn'tɑ:ʤ/

Thân thiện

He creates a montage of family photos for the anniversary party.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A technique in film editing: The process or result of selecting, editing, and piecing together separate sections of film to form a continuous whole, often to compress time, convey a passage of time, or suggest a set of ideas.
   • A composite artistic work: An image, piece of art, or literary work created by assembling and juxtaposing various and often disparate elements, such as photographs, paper clippings, or text fragments.

Examples of Usage

• Noun:
  • The film's opening montage effectively showed the character's journey from childhood to adulthood in just two minutes.
  • She created a digital montage for her art project, blending family portraits with images of nature.

Advanced Usage

• "In montage": Describing something that uses or resembles the montage technique.
  • The sequence was shot in montage, using rapid cuts to show the frantic preparation.
• "Montage sequence": A specific segment of a film or video that uses this editing technique.
  • The training montage sequence in the movie has become iconic.

Variants and Related Words

• Collage (n): An artistic composition made by sticking various materials (paper, photographs, fabric) onto a surface. While similar, "collage" is more associated with static visual art, whereas "montage" strongly implies motion, sequence, and is central to film.
• Assemblage (n): A collection or gathering of things or people; in art, a three-dimensional collage.

Synonyms

• Composite: Something made up of various parts or elements.
• Pastiche: An artistic work that imitates the style of another work or mixes different styles.

Related Phrases

• Photo montage: A montage specifically composed of photographs.
  • The memorial featured a photo montage of her life.
• Montage theory: A concept in film theory, particularly associated with Soviet filmmakers like Sergei Eisenstein, which holds that editing (montage) is the primary creative force in cinema, where the collision of shots creates new meaning.

Related Idioms

(Note: "Montage" itself is not commonly used in idiomatic expressions. Its usage is primarily technical or descriptive within the arts.)

Học thuật

Noun

1. a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image
   • he used his computer to make a collage of pictures superimposed on a map

Từ đồng nghĩa

• collage