Montage Techniques

What are three concepts from this article that you can incorporate into your future montage edit?  Why did you pick these three?  How can you apply them in the edit?

    Three concepts from the article that I can incorporate into my future montage edit is cutting on action, linking scenes, and the L Cut. I chose these three as cutting on action is a very effective way to seamlessly link scenes and also works in tandem with the other techniques, linking scenes can create an idea without showing it while also transitioning to a different scene, and the L Cut is a way to allow the viewer to expect a more abrupt cut to a different scene.

    Cutting on action effectively makes a cut seamless as people are drawn into the movement, focusing on that instead of the cut. This works well with linking scenes as there are instances where an action is started then ended in a different situation, much like their example of a battle to a kitchen where the character starts off swinging down a sword and ends with cutting an apple. That created the idea of what happened to the person at the other end of the sword, without showing it, and also moved us to a new scene, keeping the story going. I feel that the L Cut can be good when, as an editor, you're lacking the shots needed to do other techniques and so this one can help you still get a less jarring cut. I feel like this is most often used when transitioning to a scene with a car driving. I can use all of these to create more seamless cuts that aren't as noticed by the viewer and to elicit certain emotions from them.