A montage is a picture, film, or piece of music which consists of several different items that are put together, often in an unusual combination or sequence. a photo montage of some of Italy's top television stars. (French; "mounting") Pictorial technique in which cut-out illustrations, or fragments of them, are arranged together and mounted on a support, producing a composite picture made from several different pictures. It differs from collage in using only ready-made images chosen for their subject or message. The technique is widely used in advertising. Photomontage uses photographs only. In motion pictures, montage is the sequential assembling of separate pieces of thematically related film by the director, film editor, and visual and sound technicians, who cut and fit each part with the others to produce visual juxtapositions and complex audio patterns
(1) In the cinema, the art of conveying an idea and/or mood by the rapid juxtaposition of different images and camera angles (2) In art, the kind of work made from pictures or parts of pictures already produced and now forming a new composition Compare assemblage, collage
The process of making a composite picture by bringing together into a single composition a number of different pictures or parts of pictures and arranging these to form a blended whole
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"
(1) Technique of combining in a single photographic composition elements from various sources, such as parts of different photographs (2) A photographic image produced by this technique
In artwork, several photographs ("C" prints) or several transparencies (all the same reproduction size) are pasted or taped to an art board or acetate in order to create a pleasing layout which is capable of being separated in one piece Originals should contain similar highlight, middletone and shadow characteristics
1 A synonym for editing 2 An approach to editing developed by the Soviet filmmakers of the 1920s; it emphasizes dynamic, often discontinuous, relationships between shots and the juxtaposition of images to create ideas not present in either shot by itself See also discontinuity editing, intellectual montage
The editing together of a large number of shots with no intention to create a continuous reality A montage is often used to compress time (a number of facts are established in one sequence) A production may begin with a montage to establish a particular time and place With the absence of a visual relationship between them, the montage shots are linked together through a unifying sound - either a voice over or music
the stored representation of a saved Montage Desktop, including the states of all the objects it contains (Note the use of lower case, to distinguish Montage metafiles from Montage, the program ) Unlike the Windows Registry, there may be any number of montages, each corresponding to an alternate view
(1) A synonym for editing (2) An approach to editing developed by the Soviet filmmakers of the 1920s Soviet Montage emphasizes dynamic, often discontinuous, relationships between shots It also emphasizes intellectual montage
(Collage): Artwork that is comprised of portions of various existing images from photographs or prints These forms are arranged so that they join, overlap, or blend to create a new image
Television sequence that incorporates formal features to imply changes in space, time, action, mental state, or character point of view (Anderson & Field, 1983, p 76)