Right Now Montage

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    Part Contrast Montage, part Meanwhile Scene, a Right Now Montage is a slice of everyday life that shows a series of brief scenes of different people in various situations. Can come with or without narration, the narrative version having a high likelihood of dropping statistics related to the scene at hand. Often used as an establishing scene.

    Compare Era Establishing Scene and Sex Montage.

    No real life examples, please; Real Life does not have montages.

    Examples of Right Now Montage include:

    Advertising

    • Pepsi's "Right Now" series advertising Crystal Pepsi, using Van Halen's Right Now.
    • Sprint's "Now Network" series.

    Anime

    • Bleach does this on occasion; one of the most memorable is when Don Kanonji tries to form a civilian spirit-fighting team and recruits Ichigo's sisters. Hilarity Ensues.

    Fan Works

    Film

    • The various side characters listening to Radio rock in The Boat That Rocked.
    • Titanic has one of these as the ship is sinking showing different people in all parts of the ship reacting to the imminent ends of their lives.

    Live-Action TV

    • Heroes enjoys doing this in openings. Probably a good idea, considering its premise of Loads and Loads of Characters.
    • Flashpoint, when it's not doing a How We Got Here cut, tends to use this, showing the police officers and the eventual suspects on a crash course, usually unknowingly.
    • Season 2 of Community opens with the various study group members and their morning routines.

    Music

    Web Original

    • The Homestar Runner cartoon "No Hands on Deck!" had a montage of Homestar going around announcing his plans to build a deck to all and sundry.
    • One Hundred Yard Stare" has episode three, which is one of these.

    Western Animation

    • Often seen in SpongeBob SquarePants as the citizens of Bikini Bottom react to Spongebob's latest antics (like broadcasting Patrick's Giftedly Bad song over the airwaves).
    • There was one in the Powerpuff Girls showing Mr. Smith going about his daily life.
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