Montage
1990s-present · New York / Chicago
Also known as The Montage
A rapid-fire series of loosely connected short scenes springing from a single suggestion — the default long-form at UCB before Harold.
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- Suggestion-based; scenes are short, edit fast, and only loosely thematically linked.
- Core form in the UCB 201 curriculum — often the first long-form students run after scene work.
- Emphasizes finding the game of the scene quickly and editing clean; less focused on callbacks/patterns than Harold.
- The 'default' long-form in many indie scenes because it's forgiving and doesn't demand the opening/beat architecture of a Harold.
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