If cutting is prose, then montage is poetry

Creating a cutting for any event is an art.  It takes patience, knowledge of structure, and a full understanding of the author's story.  Prose is no exception.  Do not assume that because you can make use of short story, or a chapter from a book, that cutting a piece is any simpler.  Because it's not.  This event offers its own challenges to cutting that other events do not.  It also offers some of the same hurtles. The Prose Interpretation is not like Humorous/Dramatic Interpretation in the sense that full-blown character pops are not used.  That level of physical interpretation and back-and-forth dialogue is anti-Prose.

Montage is a technique in film editing in which a series of short shots are edited into a sequence to condense space, time, and information. The term has been used in various contexts. It was introduced to cinema primarily by Eisenstein, and early Soviet directors used it as a synonym for creative editing. In France the word "montage" simply denotes cutting. The term "montage sequence" has been used primarily by British and American studios, which refers to the common technique as outlined in this article.

The montage sequence is usually used to suggest the passage of time, rather than to create symbolic meaning as it does in Soviet montage theory.