Chapter | Twenty-One
Editing Methods: Narrative Continuity
Use this style for: Any narrative movie.
OVERVIEW
It’s the silent and invisible form of editing – the way we edit to create a flowing story. It’s not arty or tricksy, just gets the story going fast.
This chapter goes well with Chapter 14, Continuity – use it to help get more ideas for making a smooth narrative.
This style is called continuity editing and is pretty much the only way Hollywood and mainstream movies like to edit. It is designed purely to help the story move along, but also to get the audience quickly rooting for the characters and feeling what they feel, but without doing anything too weird. There are a lot of rules that have built up over the decades, and ...
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