editing_continuity editing

Continuity editing is a primary style of editing in narrative cinema and television. The main purpose of continuity editing is to make the inherent discontinuity of the editing process and to establish a logical coherence between shots.
In most films, logical coherence is made by cutting to continuity, which makes clear smooth transition of time and space. However, some films take cutting to continuity into a more complicated classical cutting technique, one which also tries to show psychological continuity of shots. The montage technique takes on symbolic association of ideas between shots rather than association of simple physical action for its continuity.

Continuity editing is known as a state of editing in narrative television and cinema. The idea is to create a smooth flowing film and logical coherence through shots.

There are three degrees of continuity that can occur at editing locations: edits that are continuous in space, time, and action; edits that are discontinuous in space or time but continuous in action; and edits that are discontinuous in action as well as space or time. Discontinuities in action had the biggest impact on behavioral event segmentation, and discontinuities in space and time had minor effects. Edits were associated with large transient increases in early visual areas. Spatial-temporal changes and action changes produced strikingly different patterns of transient change, and they provided evidence that specialized mechanisms in higher order perceptual processing regions are engaged to maintain continuity of action in the face of spatiotemporal discontinuities. These results suggest that commercial film editing is shaped to support the comprehension of meaningful events that bridge breaks in low-level visual continuity, and even breaks in continuity of spatial and temporal location.


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