Right Now Montage
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
- "Right Now Someone Is Reading This Title", a prize-winning Anime Music Video by Doki Doki Productions, often counted among the best AMVs ever made.
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
- Trope Namer and Trope Codifier, if not Trope Maker: Van Halen's "Right Now". Frequently parodied.
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.