M-M-M-Montage

Oh man, do I ever love a good montage. Hell, not even a good montage; any montage will do. The combination of music and clips is so manipulative and I am more than willing to be manipulated. There must be some sort of montage 101 template that every montage-maker must follow (after the jump):


Music (pick one):

• a 70's emotional-blackmaily song, think Turn, Turn, Turn
• a softer, ballady Waits, think Jersey Girl; Good Vibrations
• Baba O'Riley
• something by a lady singer-song writer, Joni Mitchell, Tracy Chapman or Tori Amos 
• a Monkeys-esque pop song
• a 90's hip-hop song, maybe Hip Hop by Dead Prez
• Total Eclipse of the Heart
• Coldplay
• Johnny Cash covering something from the '90's
• something Hawaiian involving a ukulele
• a song from Carmen or any other well-known opera

Clips (pick ten or more):

• Women shopping
• couples fighting then crying
• lots of wistful, faraway looks
• someone, forehead to glass, staring, sadly out of a moving car in the fall
• people laughing around a big table, eating dinner, drinking red wine 
• a very quick succession of clips all depicting the same thing (weddings, rednecks getting hurt, slaps, girls screaming)
• a middle-age woman who sinks to the floor after answering the phone)
• an audience rising to a standing ovation
• a person comforting another person, in tears, while sitting on the last three steps
• birds-eye view of a funeral
• a single tear slipping down a man's cheek
• someone swiping everything off a desk
• commencement/valedictorian speech followed immediately by the grads throwing their caps in the air; a tear falling on a letter/telegram
• really hot twenty-five year olds strutting down a high school hallway
• a messenger riding his bike down a tree-lined street
• airport arrival scene
• the smashing of a wine-filled glass on terra-cotta
• a burlesque dancer shimmying
• a child on Christmas morning
• someone running through the woods in the rain, illuminated by lightning
• teenagers kissing in a pool
• a family in a waiting room, not speaking
• painful-looking high school talent show
• a person standing with their back to the camera, watching a plane take off through a large window
• a group of teenagers running down a busy New York sidewalk, knocking into an older businessman
• a man slipping to his knees in a back yard in the rain, hands at his face.

This here is my most favourite montage video. Swearingen! Nate! Carmella! Larry David? Every time I watch it I go a little warm and gooey in my frontal lobe.