9.04pm BST Let the ceremony begin... London 2012 officially gets underway with a whistle-stop montage of everyday life in the British isles, darting from cricket greens to scurrying geese to the London Eye to the thunderous opening bars of the Clash's London Calling and a sneering snippet of John Lydon singing God Save the Queen.
Other images must presumably have been faked with montage, stop-start photography or Photoshop, otherwise the phenomenon cannot be explained.
As a result, you can create video montages and stop motion videos with relative ease.[2].
But the devastating extent of the editing is clear: key sequences are reduced to montages and numerous scenes stop just as they're getting started.
In the first four episodes (the whole season will be released this week), the show has mildly funky pacing: like "Girls" and "Looking" and "Louie," it's part of the new school of indie-inflected TV, a set of lyrical outliers that stop and start, using music and montages to suggest ideas without fully explaining them.
Stop viewing this area as your personal shopping mall/makeover-montage staging ground.
As Adam Chandler contended, in an Atlantic post bluntly entitled "Stop Making Film Adaptations of Philip Roth Novels," "There is no aside or montage that could faithfully represent the laborious historical and psychological contexts that Roth devotes pages to developing".
Grace Buccolo, the bookkeeper at the Grand Union, displays a montage of snapshots of the Clintons during one of their few stops there.
Already the montage of flags, badges, and kevlar vests probably has you reaching for that stop button.
Director Gary Ross, who steers the movie with spirit and conviction, draws on Thirties Hollywood techniques with a grand montage of trains crossing the continent and station signs flashing up as Howard and his entourage stop to address enthusiastic crowds.
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