What is a montage? What are the common manifestations?

Montage is the general name of film composition forms and methods.

Montage-a transliteration of French montage, originally a term in French architecture, meaning combination and assembly. Later, it was borrowed and extended to be used in movies, which means editing combination, indicating the combination of shots.

Simply put, montage is to make a film into many shots according to the content of the film and the psychological order of the audience, and then connect them according to the original idea. Bottom line: Montage is a means to connect the cut lens groups. Therefore, montage is a means to connect the shots taken by the camera according to the logic of life, the order of reasoning, the author's viewpoint tendency and its aesthetic principles. First, by means of camera, then by means of scissors. The montage of movies is mainly realized through the re-creation of directors, photographers and editors. The screenwriter of the film designs a blueprint for the future film, the director of the film recreates it with montage on the basis of this blueprint, and finally the photographer reflects it with the expressive force of the film.

In film production, the director makes many shots according to the theme of the script or film, and then organizes and clips these different shots organically and artistically according to the original creative idea, so as to make them coherent, contrasting, associative, suspenseful and connected with different rhythms, thus selectively forming a film that reflects certain social life and thoughts and feelings and is understood and loved by the broad audience. These forms and means are as follows.