Montages are unexpectedly hard to edit. It may be because I did not have a concrete plan of how I wanted the edit to look while filming but I found the editing to be really difficult.

The thing is with scenes or segments of a film or documentary, there is some sort of motivation behind which shot follow what – for continuity purposes shot A should be followed by shot B, or to move a story along this scene should follow that scene. But for a montage, I guess the motivation is a bit less obvious or maybe even non-existent. Or maybe the motivation isn’t in the meaning of a shot but rather the pure visual composition of it.

In any case, it’s something I’m not used to since I’ve always thought to myself that each succession of shots should be motivated by some sort of meaning and purpose that is carefully thought out – not just because it looks ‘good’.

So in conclusion, I find montage easier to write and shoot, but much more difficult to edit (because I’m not used to it).