to montage
- verb
- /mɒnˈtɑːʒ/
- Specialized
- My own interest is in batch converting, montaging multiple images, and format conversion of data sets, often comprising tens of thousands of images.
So maybe you can take some close up artistic shots and then we'll just like we'll montage it.
- So maybe you can take some close up artistic shots and then we'll just like we'll montage it.
Examples
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We montage through an intense game of "go fish" as the storm continues to rage.
Fiction book (2002) -
I used to montage the solid black lettering with colorful patterns to create something different.
Academic text (1993) -
Let me montage this to speed things up.
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So, we decided, let's go ahead and montage this entire sequence and get to the Soul Train line as quickly as possible.
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I then montaged the slides with colorful backgrounds.
Academic text (1993) -
I wondered about the possibility of montaging them, so "Synergy" was born, i.e., a combination of subjects!
Academic text (1999) -
James Paradise has a great way to make winning images by montaging, and Ben Goldstein and Mervyn Hurwitz have planned wonderful nature shows.
Academic text (1996) -
And figures could just as mysteriously appear, as in Matthew Brady's 1865 photo Sherman and His Generals, in which an officer late for a group shot was simply—presto!—montaged in.
Blog text (19) -
After filming the vacation, she decided to montage the best clips into a highlight reel.
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He montaged various photos from the event to create a memorable slideshow for his friends.
Synonyms
To insert scenes like interviews or real footage between shots to show different times
To combine images or elements into one picture
To make an artwork by gluing pieces of paper or photos together
To edit by cutting between two scenes to show events at the same time
Antonyms
How Composite
Surface Forms
Etymology
Montage as a verb also comes from French monter, meaning 'to put together', and you can imagine mounting photos on a board. So to montage something is to join separate photos or clips into one image or sequence.