1. Continuity
    1. Shots cut together in linear and uninterrupted flow to maintain a continuous sense of time and space
    2. Not a style, but an editorial grammar. Keeps audience immersed in the story.
    3. 24 - Continuity Editing Example
    4. Callout
  2. Non-Continuity
    1. Shots are mismatched to disrupt the impression of time and space. Eg, montage and jump cuts
    2. Draw the audience's attention to the process and disturbs the "reality". Flashbacks
    3. Student Project
  3. Linear
    1. Keeps in the chronological order.
    2. Batman - Dark Knight Rises
    3. Cheap and quick editing; Make the story easier to follow through
  4. Non-Linear
    1. Start with the end and end with the start. Non chronological order
    2. Momento
    3. Easier but costly editing; Create confusion and tension.
  5. Cross Cut (Parallel Editing)
    1. Cut between two different scenes that are happening (or seem to happen) at the same time in different places
    2. Adding tension (heist movies use a lot of parallel editing, like showing someone breaking into a safe while a security guard walks toward their location).
    3. Inception - car/train fighting scenes
    4. Lord of Rings: Edge of Night
    5. The Silence of the Lambs - FBI and Criminal
  6. Montage
    1. An editing technique that signifies the passage of time or helps to give an overall context to the story with quick cuts.
    2. Athletes training for a big match in montages. Transformation by any character(s). Normally underscored by music.
    3. Rocky IV - Training Montage
    4. Hot Fuzz - How the hero got into the police academy
  7. Transitions
    1. Fast Cut
    2. Fade In/Out
    3. Dissolve
    4. Jump Cut
    5. Wipe
    6. Iris
    7. Series of brief shots that convey lots of info in a short time
    8. Pictures gradually replaced by black or other solid colors. Implies the end, allows audience to take a breath after tensions
    9. Overlapping of "layers" to show multiple scenes happening at once. Signifies time
    10. Used within montage that pushes forward in time
    11. An animation that "wipes" the first scene away into the next
    12. A circulars masking closes the picture to a black screen.
    13. Moulin Rouge - Can Can Can
    14. Six Feet Under - Opening
    15. Shawshank Redemption - Opera in the Prison
    16. Mad Max: Fury Road
    17. Star Wars - Wiping Scenes
    18. The Departed - Peaking
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