Montage Editing

Montage Editing is different from Continuity because its aim is not to deliver us a story. Therefore it does not need to follow a restricted timeline or time flow. Also not everything has to be related or even be in order. Because of this the director has more freedom of what to do.

An example would be the training scenes in the Rocky films. Although it normally goes from the start of his training to the end you'll find that it goes back and forth to bits. One moment you could have Rocky running to him doing weights, to him doing jump rope to him running to him doing push ups.

Although this is similar to music videos the chances are music videos will be more random then a Rocky Training Montage because they are meant to be in time with the song, can have multiple meanings and are not meant to make any sense.

ROCKY TRAINING MONTAGE: