montage 

(French monter, to mount, to assemble) A synonym for film editing. The term montage is usually preferred when there is a desire to stress the ensemble of decisions and technical choices made during production and post-production that give shape to any given film. Editing here implies not just the work of the film editor, but also a sense of which setups, shots, and sequences are included and in what order. Here interaction between editing technique and mise-en-scene, narrative design, and the film's wider themes is the primary focus. The use of the term often implies a stress on the wider theoretical implications and possibilities of different editing techniques, especially governed by considerations of continuity (see soviet avant garde). Attempts have been made to group films together according to their editing technique: for example, rhythmic editing/montage (sometimes also called metric editing), graphic editing/montage, or intellectual montage.

A montage sequence is a passage in a film with many brief shots which are edited together in quick succession, usually connecting the passage of time. This technique is strongly associated with classical Hollywood cinema. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941), for example, contains an opening montage sequence modelled on a newsreelabout the life of the film's central protagonist, Charles Foster Kane; a later sequence shows the breakdown of a marriage via six breakfast encounters between Kane and his wife—the action spans years, but the montagesequence lasts only a matter of seconds. Donald Siegel, head of the montage department at Warner Bros, produced a large number of montage sequences, including the famous opening montage for Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942). Avant-garde filmmaker Slavko Vorkapić also worked on a number of montage sequences for studio-produced films (see new american cinema). The use of montage tends to characterize certain genres more than others: for example, the history film and historical documentary, and the training sequences associated with the sports film and martial arts film. It is also a feature of avant-garde film and compilation film.

Kuhn, A., & Westwell, G. (2012). montage. In A Dictionary of Film Studies. : Oxford University Press,. Retrieved 3 Jun. 2019, from https://www-oxfordreference-com.easyaccess1.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/view/10.1093/acref/9780199587261.001.0001/acref-9780199587261-e-0451.