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
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
Linear
Keeps in the chronological order.
Batman - Dark Knight Rises
Cheap and quick editing; Make the story easier to follow through
Non-Linear
Start with the end and end with the start. Non chronological order
Momento
Easier but costly editing; Create confusion and tension.
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
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
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.