Perennial editing techniques
The skills and craft employed by the film editor to stitch together a sequence of separate shots persuades the audience that they are watching a continuous event. The action flows from shot to shot and appears natural and obvious. Obviously the craft of editing covers a wide range of genres up to and including the sophisticated creative decisions that are required to cut feature films. However, there is not such a wide gap between different editing techniques as first it would appear.
Rearranging time and space
When two shots are cut together the audience attempts to make a connection between them. For example, a man on a station platform boards a train. A wide shot shows a train pulling out of a station. The audience ...
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