Making Collage Screen Saver

Is there any easy way to make the collage screen saver effect found in the screen savers on a mac? I just need four or five pictures for each sequence.
Are there any applications such as iphoto that I could make it with and then import it into FCP? Or do I need to make it in motion? If yes, any easy ways?

No:
I mean the screen saver where photos drop and pile up on one another

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