Example of montage

The training scene from the first Rocky film is a perfect example of American Montage. Like this particular montage I will be using a collection of shots to show the passage of time, however unlike this particular montage I will be covering a much shorter passage of time. Instead showing one character moving around the college and condensing the time down to a few minutes rather than condensing time down from a few weeks or months down to a few minutes instead.

Note the use of tracking shots, long shots and close ups of Rocky as he trains and excercises. I'm using a similar variety of shots in the start of my own film where I have Detective McGuiness move through the college. I'm using tracking shots of him walking down the hallways, long shots of him actually entering the college and close up's of different segment's of his body .