montage

Everyday

1. In films and TV, a quick series of short clips put together to show time passing or many things happening. tree →
2. A picture made by putting many photos or pieces together. tree →
3. The skill of choosing and joining pieces of film or pictures. tree →

In the lessons

Used in media studies, art (making a photo montage for a project) and everyday talk about films ("the training montage"). In a story, "a montage" tells the reader that lots of time passed quickly. Phrases: "training montage", "photo montage", "a montage of".

Examples

• The film showed a montage of the team training hard all winter. tree →
• For our end-of-year assembly we made a montage of class photos. tree →
• The artist made a montage from old magazine pictures. tree →
• A montage of holiday clips played at the party. tree →
• Every sports film seems to have a training montage. tree →
• The news ended with a montage of the best moments of the Games. tree →
• We learned how editors cut film to build a montage. tree →

Note

Pronounced "MON-tahzh" (from French). Countable: "a montage", "two montages". Similar to "collage" (pictures glued onto paper); a montage is more often photos or film clips.