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A valuable lesson I learned from Team America and pretty much every movie made by Paul Haggis, director of Crash. You need a montage. How can you fit a whole experience into only 8 pages? Montage! Important events and turns are highlighted... but the rest? MONTAGE! Random imaginary person says: "But Final, how about stories where being in the moment or observing the ordinary adds to the experience. Example: Lost in Translation." Sometimes you can't have a montage, but you can induce montage feelings. You can fade out at the end of a scene, because you always fade out at the end of a montage. You can have still moments where characters might be in deep thought such as looking out the window of a cab, or standing on an escalator (preferably in a pose). Last point. Slow motion. In a comic, you can have an image of a girl in the middle of a twirl, where she looks frozen in time. And just to emphasize how slow it's going, you can have many boxes of captions. More than a person could possibly have in that amount of time. So consider a montage the next time you have a story. Do not confuse montage with collage. ---- Rocky IV - Training montage! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDko7Utfqdg ---- Bloodsport - He's actually sitting on a train, looking out the window! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYUJ7PLL6jQ P.S. Fade out.