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Continuity
- Shots cut together in linear and uninterrupted flow to maintain a continuous sense of time and space
- Not a style, but an editorial grammar. Keeps audience immersed in the story.
- 24 - Continuity Editing Example
- Callout
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Non-Continuity
- Shots are mismatched to disrupt the impression of time and space.
Eg, montage and jump cuts
- Draw the audience's attention to the process and disturbs the "reality". Flashbacks
- Student Project
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Linear
- Keeps in the chronological order.
- Batman - Dark Knight Rises
- Cheap and quick editing; Make the story easier to follow through
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Non-Linear
- Start with the end and end with the start. Non chronological order
- Momento
- Easier but costly editing; Create confusion and tension.
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Cross Cut (Parallel Editing)
- Cut between two different scenes that are happening (or seem to happen) at the same time in different places
- 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).
- Inception - car/train fighting scenes
- Lord of Rings: Edge of Night
- The Silence of the Lambs - FBI and Criminal
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Montage
- An editing technique that signifies the passage of time or helps to give an overall context to the story with quick cuts.
- Athletes training for a big match in montages. Transformation by any character(s). Normally underscored by music.
- Rocky IV - Training Montage
- Hot Fuzz - How the hero got into the police academy
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Transitions
- Fast Cut
- Fade In/Out
- Dissolve
- Jump Cut
- Wipe
- Iris
- Series of brief shots that convey lots of info in a short time
- Pictures gradually replaced by black or other solid colors. Implies the end, allows audience to take a breath after tensions
- Overlapping of "layers" to show multiple scenes happening at once. Signifies time
- Used within montage that pushes forward in time
- An animation that "wipes" the first scene away into the next
- A circulars masking closes the picture to a black screen.
- Moulin Rouge - Can Can Can
- Six Feet Under - Opening
- Shawshank Redemption - Opera in the Prison
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- Star Wars - Wiping Scenes
- The Departed - Peaking
- Almost No One Uses Toady