Research and Planning: Montage examples

As editing is my responsibility in making our trailer I decided I would start to think about different types of editing I may like to use for my own project. After thinking for a little while I decided to research montages and how they are put together, particularly in trailers with a similar genre to mine. By doing this I will hopefully get some ideas of my own and further my own understanding.

mon·tage/mänˈtäZH/

Noun:

The process or technique of selecting, editing, and piecing together separate sections of film to form a continuous whole. A sequence of film resulting from this.

 

Here is an example of a trailer I watcdhed to gather inspiration for the montage I wish to create in my own trailer. This is a trailer for Underworld:Awakening and it seems almost the entire trailer is a montage. This keeps the trailer running at a fast pace. However when I come to make my own trailer I would like a mixture of both fast and slow editing. This trailer has a lot of action scenes packed into a short space of time. This tells the audience that the film will be full of action and adds some suspense and tension. Some scenes are edited with a sepia filter giving the impression of past tense or a memory. This is an idea I might like to use when creating my own trailer.